Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous ...

LAGAWE, Ifugao (PIA) – The Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) of Ifugao initiates measures to address the diminishing indigenous knowledge and skills in the province, as part of its efforts to ...

Marines Perez Santos is an unusual Maya weaver: He is male. As a child, Marines would help his mother prepare her backstrap loom for weaving by setting up the warp, or the set of threads placed ...

Maya women in Guatemala continue to practice forms of backstrap weaving that have thrived in Central America for centuries, even adapting them to more contemporary uses like handbags. On Thursday, ...

Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. “The backstrap loom is a ...

Neil Goss is on a cross-country "East to West: Medicinal Art Tour," that focuses on creating temporary, public site-specific artwork — and the Carnegie Center in New Albany, Ind., was one of his pit ...