Marines Perez Santos is an unusual Maya weaver: He is male. 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 ...
Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous ...
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 a ...
Masterful Guatemalan weaver, Bertina López Cumez will be demonstrating backstrap loom weaving techniques at this special event held at the Hearst Museum. Try your hand at weaving while getting to ...
It's a tale as old as 2020: One day, I was in the NPR office making after-work plans with friends; the next, I was taking my laptop home to work remotely for "just a few weeks." A few weeks later, I ...
Watching a weaving demonstration at Mead Public Library on Saturday, Oostburg resident Jo Murphy was delighted to see the craft her grandmother loved still lives on in Sheboygan County. "The exquisite ...