As a child, Marines would help his mother prepare her backstrap loom for weaving by setting up the warp, or the set of threads placed lengthwise on the loom. One day, when he was around 10 years ...

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Mayan weaver Juanita Velasco, who is fluent in the Ixil language spoken in Santa Maria Nebaj, Guatemala, shows you an unusual way to weave, demonstrating the traditional backstrap weaving ...

"One of the things that I did a few years ago was i spent time in Chiapas in southern mexico working with Mayan artisans, Mayan women who do backstrap weaving." The process of backstrap weaving ...

Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. “The backstrap loom is ...

“I was in Grade 3 when my mother taught me how to operate a backstrap loom [a mechanism strapped to a weaver’s body],” she says. Fejer’s clan is known for its members’ skills in weaving ...