Guatemalan Textiles

In this blog post, I will be telling you about the textiles that are made here in Guatemala.

 A woman's dress is made almost always made up of a long skirt, a woven belt and a woven and embroidered shirt.  Most weavers still use the traditional natural plant dyes to dye the yarn.  Also, almost all weavers use cotton as their yarn to weave with.

this is a natural dye called ajocote

A lot of the things that the weavers weave are like hammocks, table runners, tablecloths, blankets, clothes and hammock chairs.  Usually, these textiles have geometric, floral, animal, or human designs.  Textile looms are composed of short wooden sticks that are put in the loom to make the weaving process easier.  Almost all of the women and some of the men still wear the traditional clothing of their village.

Of all the textiles that I have seen, I like the clothes the best because they are always so elaborate.

this is a woman's belt

these are some of the yarns that the weavers use

these middle school girls are wearing their village's traditional

 clothing.