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.
Guatemalan women wearing traditional clothing celebrating Holy Week.
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.
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 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.