backstrap loom

Backstrap looms are very portable, since they can simply be rolled up and carried.

They are woven on both backstrap looms and European style looms.

After European contact, treadle looms were introduced, although backstrap looms continue to be popular.

Nowadays, the backstrap looms are used to make coarse travesties and "art quilting" has reared its ugly head.

In Tarecuato, backstrap looms create wool belts and in Cuanajo, they make pouches, belts and more in a "dog leg" pattern.

She studied backstrap weaving with Mayan women and later co-authored the book Weaving on a Backstrap Loom with Nona Ziek.

Backstrap looms are used in Mixtec and Tlapaneca communities to make sarapes and gabanes (a kind of overcoat) which are somewhat crude, dyed with natural or commercial dyes in contrasting patterns.

Textiles of wool and cotton woven on backstrap looms are made in San Juan Chamula, San Andres Larrainzar, Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Pedro Chenalho, Bochil and Teopisca.