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 in this photo are wearing folded up ‘tzutes’ on their heads to shade their faces.
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.
This little girl from Guatemala is wearing traditional clothing and carrying worry dolls.
This is JoAnn Paulsen at the Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Dress in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
The women of Guatemala have worn the same traditional dress (called ‘traje’) for centuries. They have passed down the art of weaving these textiles through many generations.