A Century of Color :
Maya Weaving & Textiles
English Narrator: Cheryl Guerrero
Spanish Narrator: Marta Lucía Beltrán
Running time: 53 minutes

Item No. 002

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© 2007 Endangered Threads Documentarie

Surveys 100 years of continuity and change in Maya weaving and textiles of Guatemala with stunning examples of blouses, skirts, belts, hair ribbons, men’s wear, ikat and embroidery.

Splendor in the Highlands:
Maya Weavers of Guatemala Narrator: Margot Blum Schevill
Running time: 27 minutes

Item No. 001

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© 2005 Endangered Threads Documentaries

With brilliant colors and intimate views, textile scholar, author and anthropologist Margot Blum Schevill introduces us to 22 Guatemalan weavers and their weaving styles and techniques.

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Documentaries under development (tentative titles):
Art, Strength & the Maya Huipil
Empowering Women: Interviews on Maya Weaving Projects
Maguey in Guatemala
Cobán Cloth: Picb’il Weaving Through the Ages

Endangered Threads Documentaries LogoPart of a huipil (a blouse-type garment worn by Maya women) woven on a back strap loom by Catalina Lopez Sajvin, Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala.
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In the outskirts of Tactíc, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, back strap weaver Lilian Elizabeth Cahuec Buv uses a back strap loom to weave a shawl for Chilám, a European import company. The technique she is using is alternating bands of calada (Spanish term) or open weave, with bands of plain weave into which decorative ribbon strips are inserted. Photo by Margot Blum Schevill 2005.

 

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