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GUATEMALA CITY — With their brightly colored fabrics filled with animals and landscapes, Guatemala’s indigenous people had long used textiles to tell stories and share their visions of the ...
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 ...
Long revered for its vibrant weaving traditions, Guatemala is home to centuries-old textile practices upheld by Indigenous Maya communities. Today, a growing movement of designers, hoteliers, and ...
Trama Textiles is a worker-owned cooperative that’s been in business since 1988. Each item in the new collection, available for order on Dittohouse’s website , showcases individual weavers and ...
But when she purchased a plot of land by Lake Atitlan near her mother’s home in Guatemala, there wasn’t yet an interior to ...
“The Guatemalan textiles in the exhibition come from several large textile collections,” said Jessica Corbett, one of the graduate students curating the exhibit. “The pieces we've chosen are very ...
“People love Guatemalan textiles, but they rarely meet the women who make them,” says Berry as I follow her through a garden green with cotton trees and native plants like flowering tobacco ...
Discover the current and ancient culture of the Maya as told through their textiles on a 10-day tour organized by Bella Guatemala Travel.The itinerary includes exploring the UNESCO city of Antigua ...
Meet Isabella Springmühl, a Guatemalan goddess with Down Syndrome taking the fashion world by storm. Since the young fashionista started designing clothes for her dolls at 6 years old, Isabella ...
The Guatemalan Night Market, also known as Little Guatemala, comes into existence every evening at a Westlake intersection. Street vendors say it's like stepping back into their homeland.