A New Style Heddle

For a long time we have wanted to learn some new weaving designs. Although we have been experimenting on our own, we have been looking for a master weaver to help us. This week we have begun to work with Don Oscar Boj, of Quetzaltenango. He will be working with us over the next few months helping us expand our understanding and improve our weaving. Don Oscar is teaching us the names of the parts of the loom in Spanish while we are teaching him the words in Mam. The very first thing we did was change from our string heddles to Texsolv polyester heddles. The Texsolv heddles are not common in Guatemala so we feel like pioneers.