"Guatemalan Mayan textiles include some of the world's most intricate and colorful weavings made on a simple 'loom of sticks,' the backstrap loom. Each indigenous town traditionally has its distinctive native costume with a synthesis of design elements of the dress of the ancient Mayas, of the 17th and 18th century Spanish dress and later of European and American influences. This memoir was written as the photographers, Joanne Calkins and her husband,...