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.
The Guatemalan woman in this photo is making thread from cotton.
This is JoAnn Paulsen at the Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Dress in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
This little girl from Guatemala is wearing traditional clothing and carrying worry dolls.
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.
Huipils and textiles made by Mayan women in Guatemala are handmade. The thread is made by cleaning and spinning cotton.