From 20th century aprons to commodity bag dresses, the Textile and Costume Museum at LSU explores fashion and textiles through the ages. The museum's exhibition “Trajé, Maya Textile Artistry” is ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

Carol Ann Lorenz first became interested in Maya textiles when she met Marines and Lydia Perez in 1978 as the couple and a Guatemalan backstrap weaver were on an educational tour of local colleges and ...

CHICAGO -- (AP) -- As lingering winter gave way to the gray of early spring, some of the most vivid colors in Chicago were on museum walls: textiles from the Mayan peoples of Guatemala and southern ...

Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to make sense of the news. Episodes drop Monday, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents “Bak’tun 13: A Guatemalan Celebration of Time,” a three-day festival celebrating Guatemalan history and culture as well as the legacy ...

The Museo Maya de América in Guatemala City will be the world’s largest museum of Mayan history and culture, at 60,000 sf. Designed by Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio, Boston-based interdisciplinary ...

For first-time visitors to the heart of Central America, Guatemala can feel like multiple trips in one. Smoke plumes from volcanoes along the Pacific. Lush forests engulf the north. And in the ...

In 2011, Alejandra Barrillas, Guatemala’s entrant in the Miss Universe pageant, appeared on stage bedecked in what in the eyes of the rest of the world—and perhaps some Guatemalans as well—looked like ...

To show the classic origins of the textile patterns, Pomar and Rivera created an eerie audiovisual display, in which images of ancient Mayan statues, frescoes and bas reliefs appear on facing screens.