I have spent almost two decades researching and working with Maya women weavers in Guatemala, and I just spent the last year living there. People often ask me if it’s worth buying Maya textiles as a ...

Textile art of the grand Mayan civilization of 2,000 years ago is the focus of ”Living Maya: The Art of Ancient Dreams,” an exhibition through April 10 at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852 W.

The ancient art of weaving is unraveled at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures with its newest exhibit, “Entwined: A Vibrant Heritage of the Modern Maya.” “Entwined”demonstrates ...

Carol Ann Lorenz first became interested in Maya textiles when she met Marines and Lydia Perez in 1978 as the couple and a Guatemalan backstrap weaver were on an educational tour of local colleges and ...

Nearly 200 beautiful textiles, spanning the past 50 years from the collections of scholars of Maya culture and history, will be displayed as part of a sale to raise money for scholarships for Maya ...

Craig Dietz set up a portable photography studio in a church plaza with natural lighting, waiting for a subject to animate its black canvas background through lively expressions and traditional Mayan ...

From 20th century aprons to commodity bag dresses, the Textile and Costume Museum at LSU explores fashion and textiles through the ages. The museum's exhibition “Trajé, Maya Textile Artistry” is ...

Sep. 19—A project more than 40 years in the making that displays clothing traditions from Guatemala is now available for viewing at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Just in time for ...

CHICAGO -- (AP) -- As lingering winter gave way to the gray of early spring, some of the most vivid colors in Chicago were on museum walls: textiles from the Mayan peoples of Guatemala and southern ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

The textiles, created from the early decades of the 20th century to present day, come from the mosaic of related, but linguistically distinct, groups that make up the Mayan world. That world has made ...