Books, Articles, and Films by WARP Members

Published in cooperation with Na Bolom Museum and Study Center in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, this guide visits 20 villages in the Chiapas Highlands to showcase their stunning handwoven cloth while also providing...

Designed to support the textile part of your travels (or just education), the book explores and explains the variety of textiles that make up the vibrant textile culture of Guatemala. Following the...

An excellent resource for discovering artisans, markets, shops, museums, and festivals, this guide presents convenient, safe, and accessible methods of travel, when to go, where to stay, and where to eat. Expert...

With paintings by Angel L. Callañaupa Álvarez, the vivid paintings and stories provide a rare glimpse into Inca peoples' creative work, especially the famous Andean practice of weaving and other textile arts.

This book traces the converging paths of traditional khamak embroidery, the 400 brave women who have found in it a way to build their lives, and the tenuous state of their efforts...

The powerful visual expressions of Joe Coca's photographs introduce dozens of elder weavers and the landscapes that they occupy in the Cusco region of the Peruvian Andes. A revealing cultural study presents...

Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the...

Through captivating stories and lush illustrations, Maya Gods and Monsters draws on ancient creation myths and lore of the Maya people and gives life to wild and quirky gods, magical monsters, and...

A definitive guide to the history, meaning, and evolution of the beautiful and intricate Maya textiles of Chiapas, Mexico. Photography by Janet Schwartz

Oaxaca Stories in Clothincludes more than a hundred sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing that expresses their ancient, living...

Recognizing the dire need for more income-generating opportunities for Maya women in Guatemala, an accomplished American textile artist volunteered to teach one rug-hooking class. What followed is a surprising and heartening story...

In the pages of this book, the young weavers will be your teachers. They chose to share what they have learned with you out of the hope that it will help you...

What began as a couple's backpacking adventure with their young sons in Southeast Asia transformed into a thriving fair-trade business. Silk Weavers of Hill Tribe Laos takes the reader on a rare...

Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills Trading Post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight into where...

This book is an excellent resource guide for select off-the-beaten-path locations and events that offer all the color, joy, and energy of Mexican folklife. Geared to independent-minded travelers, it presents the safest...

Published in cooperation with the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, this book details all aspects of textile traditions of the weavers of Chinchero, Peru, including the role of special textiles in...

Twenty artisans share their personal histories, hopes, and dreams along with the products of their hands and looms. Sidebar stories about history and culture also help to put the stories in context,...

Available in digital format. Published in cooperation with the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, this book explores the variety of textiles in the Peruvian highlands, including the symbols and meaning of...

This is a small bilingual book that was actually a catalog of an exhibition "Weaving Lives". For this exhibition we focused on the different stages of a weaver's life in the communities...