Cultural - Weaving and Textiles
AVAILABLE ITINERARIES

NAME - CODE

DAYS

PRICE (US$)

Living Maya Code: TRADCP9

9

$1695.00 + air

Easter - A Different View Code:Santa3

18

$1680.00

Individual Travellers Unescorted Code: INTV

9

$0.00

Weaving is the tradition of the Maya Indians since before the Spanish conquest. Many of the designs have been used to maintain the culture and religious ideals alive when under the Spanish rule they were not allowed to practice their beliefs in the open.

The use the backloom and the treddle loom for their hand woven materials.

 

Hand embroider craft of Santiago Atitlan - photo by Gordon Kilgore

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