The women in Guatemala often use raw cotton when weaving textiles. They must first prepare the cotton by picking out the seeds, cleaning it, and then beating it with forked sticks. Then they can spin it into yarn and dye the threads with natural dyes: indigo to produce blue colors, cochineal for red, etc.
This Guatemalan woman and her daughters are all dressed in traditional clothing.
This is Lidia Lopez, a native Mayan woman from Guatemala, showing some of the textiles she has woven on a backstrap loom.
Guatemalan Woman Showing Huipils
Guatemalan women wearing traditional clothing celebrating Holy Week.
The Guatemalan woman in this photo is making thread from cotton.
Lidia Lopez is teaching a class on how to weave on the backstrap loom.