³The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditons of Oaxaca, Kathryn Klein (editor), 1997, 162 pages,	$30.00 (paperback)
	³The McDougall Collection of Indian Textiles from Guatemala and Mexico, Laura E. Start, M. Ed.  University of Oxford, England. 3rd impression 1980, originally printed in 1948, 114 pages+	$12 (paperback)
	³Costumes and Weavings of the Zoque Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, Donald Bush Cordry and Dorothy M. Cordry, Southwest Museum Papers #15, Oct 1941, 130 pages	$15.00  ( paperback)
	³ A Century of Change in Guatemalan Textiles, Ann Pollard Rowe. The Center for Inter-American Relations. 1981  (E, CP, M)	$28.00 (paperback)
Weaving for Children	also check out our other children's books
	³Angela Weaves a Dream: the Story of a Young Mayan Artist, Michele Sola (text) and Jeffrey Jay Foxx (photographs),  (1997)  more   (CP, M, C, P)*	$14.95 (hardback)
	³Beneath the Stone: A Mexican Zapotec Tale; Bernard Wolf (1994) (C, W) more   Rug Weaving in	$16.95  (new hardback)
Arts & Crafts
	³Indian Crafts of Guatemala and El Salvador. Lilly de Jongh Osborn, University Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1965, 278 pages.  (Out of print)	$25.00  (used hardback in good condition - may be ex-library)
	³Arts and Crafts of Mexico. Chloe Sayer. Chronicle Books, San Francisco. 1990   (good information and beautiful photos, CP)*	$12.00  (paperback with remainder mark)
	³Andres Curruchich, Lucecia Cofino de Prera, Museo Izchel, Guatemala, 2000, 20 pages	$20.00 (paperback)
	³La Pintura de Lago Atitlan, Paola Garcia, Guatemala, 1998, 68 pages (in Spanish)	$18.00 (paperback)
	³Arte Naif, Guatemala UNESCO, Linda Asturias de Barrios, Roberto Cabrera Padilla, Claudia Dary Fuentes, Lucrecia Mendez de Penedo,  1998, 214 pages (in Spanish)	$85.00 (paperback) sold out
	³Art Naive, Guatemala: Contemporary Guatemalan Mayan Paintings; Linda Asturias de Barrios, Roberto Cabrera Padilla, Claudia Dary Fuentes, Lucrecia Mendez de Penedo,  UNESCO, 2001, 203 pages (abbreviated bilingual edition)	$65.00 (paperback)
	³Introduccion al Arte Naif, Guatemalteco; Claudio Gonzalez, Blanca Estela Alvarado, Oscar Perdomo, UNESCO, 2000, 56 pages (in Spanish)	$20.00 (paperback)
Living Mayan Culture
	³Favorite Recipes from Guatemala, Laura Lynn Woodward, Angelika Bauer (illustrations), 1999, 80 pages	$12.00 (new paperback) out of stock
	³The Women of Candelaria, Mary Richardson Miller, Pomogranate Books, 1996, 128 pages	$30.00 (paperback)

³A Life of Their Own: An Indian Family in Latin America; Aylette Jenness and Lisa Kroeber (1979) ---  out of print more

$18.00  (hardback, used good-very good condition, may be ex-lib)

	³The Return of the Maya, Thomas Hoepker, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1998, 146 pages   (Out of Print--Limited Availability)	$20.00 (hardback, like new, may have remainder mark)
	³I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Edited and introduction by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Translated by Ann Wright, 252 pages	$8.50 (used paperback in good to very good condition)
	³Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context  Edward F. Fischer and Carol Hendrickson, 2003, 164 pages ($65 list price)	$35.00 (hardback, like new, may have remainder mark)
Historical Mayan Culture
	³Everyday Life of the Maya, Ralp Whitlock, NY, 1976, 175 pages	$12.00 (hardback, like new, may have remainder mark)
	³The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of An Ancient Maya City, Peter D. Harrison, 1999, 208 pages ($60.00 list price)	$35.00 (hardback, like new, may have remainder mark)
Music
	³T	$15.00
	³T	$15.00
	³INSTUDIANTINA Instituto Estudiantina Indigena Santiago, traditional music from Guatemala that helps support a boys school	$15.00

Books to Check for at Your Library on Mayan Textiles, Crafts, Culture and Lives

Sometimes we have one or two second-hand copies available for sale if you are interested - ask us  lynn@terraexperience.com  

Anderson, Marilyn. Guatemalan Textiles Today. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. 1978, 200 pp  (W, PD)*

Anderson, Marilyn and Jonathan Garlock. Granddaughters of Corn: portraits of Guatemala Women. Curbstone Press. Willimantic, CT. 1988, 124 pp (M, beautiful black and white photos and a difficult message from the Guatemalan civil war)*

Annis, Sheldon. God and Production in a Guatemalan Town. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX. 1987, 197 pp (M, ET-San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala)*

Atwater, Mary M. Guatemala Visited February - March 1946, Reprinted April 1965 as Shuttle Craft Guild Monograph Fifteen. Distributed by Craft and Hobby Book Service Big Sur, CA 1965 (W, PD)*

Bertrand, Regis and Danielle Magne. The Textiles of Guatemala. Studio Editions, London. 1991.  (CP, PD)*

Bjerregaard, Lena, Techniques of Guatemalan Weaving. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York. 1977. (W, PD)*

Blum Schevill, Bargot. Maya Textiles of Guatemala: The Gustavus A. Eisen Collection, 1902. University of Texas. Austin. 1993.  (CP, E)* 

de Arathoon, Barbara Knoke, translated by Jennifer H. de Keller: Un esbozo hisotico sobre tocados y chachales mayas de Guatemala:  A Historical Outline of the Maya Headresses and Chachales of Guatemala, Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena, Guatemala, Guatemala. 2000, 42 pp. (PD, CP, bilingual)*

de Barrios, Linda Asturias and Diana Fernandez Garcia, translated by Jennifer H. de Keller; Mayan Clothing and Weaving Through the Ages, Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena, Guatemala, Guatemala.  1999, 172 pp. (CP)*

de Koose, Barbara and Liliana Batres. Guatemalan Native Costumes. pamphlet, Series Conozcamos numbero 7, Guatemala Guatemala. 1990. 12 pp (CP)*

de Rodriguez, Jody Zeik and Zeik, Nona M. Weaving on a Backstrap Loom.  Hawthorn Books, New York. 1978, 189 (W, PD)*

Deuss, Krystyna. Indian Costumes from Guatemala. Second Edition Chas. Goater & Son. Nottingham. 1981, 72 pp (CP, M, PD)*

Dieterich, Mary G., Jon T. Erickson and Erin Younger; Guatemalan Costumes: The Heard Museum Collection.  Heard Museum. 1979, 95 pp. (E, CP, M, W)*

Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach. Silent Looms:  Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 1990 177 pp. (M. ET-San Pedro Sacatepequez, Guatemala)*. 

Garrett, Wilbur E (Editor) and Kenneth Garret (photos). La Ruta Maya, in National Geographic Vol. 175, No. 4 October 1989. (CP, M)*

Goodman, Frances Schaill Goodman, The Embroidery of Mexico and Guatemala. 1976.Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, NY,  1976. 81 pp (CP, BW, PD, M)*

Gordon, Beverly with Mary Ann Fitzgerald. Identity in Cloth: Continuity and Survival in Guatemalan Textiles. Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. The Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Madison, WI. 1993  (E)*

Hendrickson, Carol. Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX  1995. 245 pp (M, ET- Tecpan, Guatemala)*

Jenness, Aylette and Lisa W. Kroeber.  A life of Their Own: An Indian Family in Latin America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, NY,  1975. 134 pp. (M, C, B&W,  good overview of family life for Jr. and Sr. High age)*

Klein, Kathryn (ed.), The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca. The Getty Conservation Institute. Los Angeles. 1997 (CP, M)*

Lemos, Pedro J. (editor), Guatemala Art Crafts. The Davis Press Inc., Worcester, MA, 1941. 40 pp (B&W, M)*

Miller, Mary Richardson. The Women of Candelaria, Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco. 1996 128 pp (CP, M)*

Morales Hidalgo, Italo. U Cayibal Atziak: Images in Guatemalan Weavings. Four Ahau Press, Guatemala. Second Edition, 1990 (P)*

Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena, Mayan Clothing of Guatemala (13 minute video), Guatemala, Guatemala. 1994.

Nash, June (editor). Crafts in the World Market, University of  New York Press, Albany, NY. 1993. 264 pp (M, ET-San Antonio Polopo, Santiago Atitlan, San Antonio Aguas Calientes, and refuge camps Guatemala) 

Nash, Manning. Machine Age Maya:  The Industrialization of a Guatemalan Community. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1965 2nd edition. 155 pp (M, ET- Cantel, Guatemala)

Pettersen, Carmen L. Maya. of/de Guatemala: Life and Dress/Vida y Traje. Second Edition. Ixchel Museum, Guatemala. 1976  (beautiful watercolor drawings, M)*

Rowe, Ann Pollard. A Century of Change in Guatemalan Textiles. The Center for Inter-American Relations. 1981  (E, CP, M)*

Sayer, Chloe Sayer. Mexican Patterns: A Design Source Book. Portland House, New York. 1990  (CP, P)*

Schevill, Margo Blum. Maya Textiles of Guatemala: The Gustavus A. Eisen Collection, 1902, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, The University of California at Berkeley. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas. 1993, 295 pp (M)* 

Schevill, Margo Blum and Janet Catherine Berlo and Edward B. Dwyer. Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology. Garland Publishing., INC. NY, NY. 1991. 503 pp (M, ET)*

Skoglun, Margaret. Maya Textiles from the Raymon E. Senuk Collection and Exhibition at the Angel Mounds State Historic Site. University of Southern Indiana. 1996.  approx 25 pp (E, CP)*

Sperlich, Norber and Elizabeth Katz Sperlich. Guatemalan Backstrap Weaving.  University of Oklahoma Press. 1980. 176 pp (W, P, CP)*

Taber, Barbara and Marilyn Anderson., Backstrap Weaving: Step-by-step techniques on one of the oldest and most versatile looms. Watson-Gupill Publications, New York. 1975. 160 pp. (W. P.)*

Tokyo Kasei University. Resplandor de colores: Trajes indigenas Mayas de Guatemala. Kokyo Kasei University Japan, 1998. 168 pp (CP, in Japanese)

Vecchiato, Gianni. Guatemala Rainbow. Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, CA. (CP)*

Ventura, Carol Ann. Mayan Hair Sahes Backstrap Woven in Jacaltenango, Guatemala. , Cookeville, TN.  2002 (PD, W, CP) Bilingual paperback version and neat web site available at:  http://plato.ess.tntech.edu/cventura/backstraploom.htm 

Weitlaner-Johnson, Irmgard. Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 252 Motifs from Textiles. Dover Publications. New York, 1993. (P)*

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