Weavers of the Jade Needle: Textiles of Highland Guatemala
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Catalog of a Maxwell Museum of Anthropology exhibit on the handwoven textiles of highland Guatemala. It opens with a cultural and historical background on the highlands (Mexican influxes, Spanish conquest, markets, the cofradía system), then describes traditional men's and women's dress, natural and aniline dyes, and the types of looms in use. A step-by-step guide covers the backstrap loom: warping, dressing the loom, making heddles, weaving, and pick-up brocade. Captioned illustrations of belts, sashes, ribbons, huipils and motifs from named villages give yarn counts, techniques, fibers and colors. A bibliography closes the work.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- 1975
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 23
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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