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The next morning, I take a 20-minute car ride through the cobbled streets of downtown Antigua to visit Molly Berry, an American transplant and a Guatemalan textile expert. My taxi zips past the ...
Get Guatemalan textiles straight from weavers’ hands in indigenous community San Juan La Laguna You can't go to Guatemala and not become at least mildly obsessed with its textiles, from the long ...
You can't go to Guatemala and not become at least mildly obsessed with its textiles, from the long hand-woven skirts worn by Mayan women throughout the country to the huipiles, or loose-fitting ...
Amparo de León de Rubio, left, and Oralia Chopen, president and vice president of Trama Textiles, a collective of Indigenous weavers in Guatemala [Photo: Anexis Morales/courtesy Molly Fitzpatrick] ...
The fast fashion that U.S. shoppers discard reportedly “fuels a thriving reuse economy in Guatemala," a new report ...
A new report commissioned by Garson and Shaw sheds light on the positive environmental and economic impacts of second-hand ...
"Every single one of their textiles tell a story. A colour has a significance, and each one of the regions, too,” said Rosario Ovando, Guatemala’s consul in McAllen.
“Mayan culture is like the threads of our weavings,” said Carmelina Lix Socop, referring to the brightly-coloured textiles that have become almost synonymous with Guatemala’s tourism industry.
RACINE — A display and sale of vintage Guatemalan textiles and contemporary crafts sponsored by MayaWorks will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8-9., ...
Guatemala has been viewed by Korean investors as one of the best countries to operate textile businesses due to its geographical proximity to the U.S. market and cheap labor. Recently, however ...