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.
This is JoAnn Paulsen at the Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Dress in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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.
The Guatemalan women in this photo are wearing folded up ‘tzutes’ on their heads to shade their faces.
Guatemalan women wearing traditional clothing celebrating Holy Week.
This Guatemalan woman and her daughters are all dressed in traditional clothing.
The Guatemalan woman in this photo is weaving on a backstrap loom, just as her Mayan ancestors have done for centuries.