Last week when I stopped by the spanish school (the people who arrange my homestay here), I met a woman who offered to give me weaving classes. I bought a scarf from her, and was so impressed to see that she had made it herself. She supplied me with my weaving materials, including threat in the colors I chose last week. I am making some sort of a table runner. I started today, and didn't get too far, but much of the process was about the set-up, and the learning. Now I just have to find a collumn to attach my work to, so I can keep going.
We spent the first half hour or so of the lesson getting things set up. First, we wound the threads around table legs, and put them onto sticks, to arrange the vertical direction of threads. The horizontal part was then woven into the whole thing. Here you can see Maria, my teacher. It was great to have the chance to talk to her about her craft, and how she has passed it along to her daughters, and many international travelers. She told me of an art teacher who now teaches this in Japan! She also is a native Quiche speaker, and you can tell from the way she speaks Spanish that it is not her primary/first language. It is so interesting to see so much local culture. I have been starting to identify this language (and its effect on the sound of the Spanish language) in some of my clinic patients.
Last week when I stopped by the spanish school (the people who arrange my homestay here), I met a woman who offered to give me weaving classes. I bought a scarf from her, and was so impressed to see that she had made it herself. She supplied me with my weaving materials, including threat in the colors I chose last week. I am making some sort of a table runner. I started today, and didn't get too far, but much of the process was about the set-up, and the learning. Now I just have to find a collumn to attach my work to, so I can keep going.
We spent the first half hour or so of the lesson getting things set up. First, we wound the threads around table legs, and put them onto sticks, to arrange the vertical direction of threads. The horizontal part was then woven into the whole thing. Here you can see Maria, my teacher. It was great to have the chance to talk to her about her craft, and how she has passed it along to her daughters, and many international travelers. She told me of an art teacher who now teaches this in Japan! She also is a native Quiche speaker, and you can tell from the way she speaks Spanish that it is not her primary/first language. It is so interesting to see so much local culture. I have been starting to identify this language (and its effect on the sound of the Spanish language) in some of my clinic patients.
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