It explains the use of various looms, such as the backstrap loom and box loom, and demonstrates techniques for maintaining tension and achieving different patterns like tabby and twill weaves.

Masterful Guatemalan weaver, Bertina López Cumez will be demonstrating backstrap loom weaving techniques at this special event held at the Hearst Museum. Try your hand at weaving while getting to ...

Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. “The backstrap loom is ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the relatively young Naga United Village in Dimapur (the village came into existence in 1968), Nagaland, sits Vekuvolu Dozo’s small handloom unit with the backstrap loom or the loin loom ...

Mizoram: Loin loom or backstrap loom is the main source of income for the people of Mizoram, especially women. ‘Puan’ which means cloth, is the traditional clothing of the native people of ...