Guatemalan Sweet Bread and Baked Goods
Guatemala is known to have excellent breads and baked goods.
Guatemala is known to have excellent breads and baked goods.
Guatemalan women use raw cotton for weaving textiles. They prepare the cotton before spinning and dying it with natural dyes.
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.
The Guatemalan women in this photo are wearing folded up ‘tzutes’ on their heads to shade their faces.
Women in Guatemala begin weaving by creating a ‘warp’ out of yarn. They wind the yarn around pegs on a warping board, crossing the strings in the middle to create a striped pattern. The warp is then attached to the bars of the loom and they are ready to begin the weaving process.
Huipils and textiles made by Mayan women in Guatemala are handmade. The thread is made by cleaning and spinning cotton.
Guatemalan women wearing traditional clothing celebrating Holy Week.