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 ...

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 ...

Two-year-old Idiyanale Padrigan watches fourth-generation Filipina weaver, Evelynda Otong, as she works at her backstrap loom. She’s crafting another square to join the fabrics scattered from the ...

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 ...

What started off as an impulse-driven hobby at the start of the pandemic has turned into the closest thing to an artistic practice that I've ever... It's a tale as old as 2020: One day, I was in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Backstrap loom in 8 parts: warp beam, ...

When Shi Paw came to Minnesota as a refugee in 2011, she brought only a few belongings. One was a cherished wedge of dark, tropical wood from the loom she used during more than a decade in a refugee ...