Beginner Plain Weave with Doña Lidia (Online) / TBD

//Update June 2025: We're including our Intermediate Brocade Guide ($15 value) with this class sign-up!//

There are really only a few steps to the plain weave on a backstrap loom. Once you get the movements, it becomes rather therapeutic to repeat them. But getting to that point might be challenging on your own - so join us to learn from master weaver and experienced teacher, Doña Lidia, step by step! 

Doña Lidia has been teaching backstrap weaving nationally and internationally for several decades. She is a wealth of knowledge and a patient teacher with experience teaching in English. 

This is a one-hour introductory class on the art of backstrap weaving. Upon purchasing this class, the website will automatically send you an email to download the following PDF resources:

• Beginner Backstrap Weaving Guide: goes over steps we will learn during class, with added "get to know Doña Lidia" bits.
• Supplementary Brocade Guide: produced during the pandemic, this guide is rich with professional-quality videos that show the steps to traditional brocade motifs from San Antonio Aguas Calientes. Demonstrated by Doña Lidia.
• Backstrap weaving instructions by Doña Lidia: this is a PDF developed for a different course Doña Lidia taught, that she would like to make available to students of this session as an additional resource.

This class will be held on Saturday, July 5th, from 10:30am-11:30am Guatemala time via Zoom from Doña Lidia's home with Kakaw staff recording, moderating, and translating (when necessary; Doña Lidia's English is excellent!). Please make sure to check the time difference from where you are. The class will also be recorded and the recording will be made available to the participants after the class, in case you'd like to go back and see the steps again. (This also means that if you can't make it "live" to the session, you will still have access to the Zoom recording.)

Please join us with your backstrap loom ready to go. Need a loom? We have several offerings for you, and recommend these two for this class: Kids' Practice Loom (made specifically for small bodies in mind) and Practice Loom. If you would like to move onto brocade figures after this class, then you can go ahead and get prepped with a Brocade Loom now.

We will be sending you an email with Zoom information during the week leading up to the class.

Questions? See the FAQs on our blog, and if not covered there, send us an email.

Maximum number of participants: 12