Guatemalan Woman Showing Huipils
This is Lidia Lopez showing the many huipils she has and telling what village they came from.
This is Lidia Lopez showing the many huipils she has and telling what village they came from.
Guatemalan women use raw cotton for weaving textiles. They prepare the cotton before spinning and dying it with natural dyes.
The Guatemalan women in this photo are wearing folded up ‘tzutes’ on their heads to shade their faces.
Lidia Lopez is teaching a class on how to weave on the backstrap loom.
Feria Panajachel takes over the town every October to celebrat Saint Francis of Assisi.
The Guatemalan women make thread out of raw cotton and wrap it around a yarn winder. This keeps the string from getting tangled as they weave it in and out of the pegs on a warping board.
Lidia Lopez showing a ceremonial huipil and a huipil from Tactic and telling the meanings of the patterns on them.