MEXICO CITY — Xaneri Merino wasn’t meant to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps. Now a transgender woman, she was identified at birth as a boy in San Pedro Jicayán, an Indigenous community in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Two-year-old Idiyanale Padrigan watches fourth-generation Filipina weaver, Evelynda Otong, as she works at her backstrap loom. She’s crafting another square to join the fabrics scattered from the ...

NMAI copy 39088018508309 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. siris_sil_128279 ...