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About this episode

The backstrap loom is an ancient loom used throughout Mexico and Meso-America to produce cotton and wool textiles. Tthe Amusgo women of Guerrero and Oaxaca are expert weavers. When you watch this video you can see the pains taking effort to create a single textile design used for a huipil (traditional garment). The brocade requires the placing of thread in the garments while it is in process of being loomed. Each thread is hand placed and them pressed into its location to form the pattern. these ancestral patterns are momorized and a counting method is used to assure its proper location in the garmentIn the background you can hear the amusgo language being spoken.

• Release Date

  Feb 14, 2006

• Runtime

  01:00