Mexican Textile Techniques

by Chloe Sayer

More than four and a half centuries have passed since the Spanish Conquest, yet Mexico is still inhabited by nearly sixty Indian peoples. Many wear highly distinctive costumes and use textile skills inherited from the ancient civilisations of the Aztec and the Maya. Traditional fibres such as cotton and agave fibre are still spun with a spindle and woven on the backstrap loom. Cloth may be elaborately brocaded, gauze-woven to resemble lace, or intricately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852639708
• ISBN13: 9780852639702
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.3"