Women's Rights & Issues

Judi Lynn

(162,344 posts) Wed Aug 11, 2021, 08:04 PM Aug 2021

Latin America forum: Meet the women keeping a 2,000-year-old Indigenous craft alive in Guatemala

Dylan Barth Aug 9, 2021, 11:42 AM

- video at link -

Weaving has been passed down in Mayan communities since ancient times.

The 36-year civil war in Guatemala that ended in the 1990s threatened Indigenous culture.

A group of women in San Juan La Laguna are fighting to preserve the craft and support their families.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mayan-weavers-guatemala-women-dyeing-2021-8?IR=C

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D.U. Thread at:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110877668#post8

Poster Phoenix61 responded to a question and provided a great link, with closer looks at the products these amazing atisans create. So worth the time to look at them!

Also, new poster AllBlue located the original video on YouTube so it's not necessary to use the link from Business Insider!

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Latin America forum: Meet the women keeping a 2,000-year-old Indigenous craft alive in Guatemala (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2021 OP

I sent the video to my sister who is very interested in textiles BigmanPigman Aug 2021 #1

Thank you so very much for bringing these remarkable women to our attention. What niyad Aug 2021 #2

BigmanPigman

(52,216 posts)

1. I sent the video to my sister who is very interested in textiles

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 11, 2021, 08:31 PM

Aug 2021

and weaving in various cultures. When you look at how much work goes into the weaving you do not haggle over the price of their art.

niyad

(119,642 posts)

2. Thank you so very much for bringing these remarkable women to our attention. What