Mayan textiles

 

Mayan textiles are important as part of the indigenous Maya heritage mixed with Spanish colonial innovations and fashions. These textiles form a colorful part of the national patrimony of Guatemala today.

 

This is my favorite page on the Maya web sites. This page was as fun to make as we hope it is enjoyable for you to view the designs. To see how comparable designs can be printed digitally in full color, we show you how.

 

Mayan textiles

 

Photographed with a Nikon CoolPix 950. Thus you get some blooming of the colors (spread of the colors, typical also of video cameras). To avoid blooming you need a flatbed scanner such as that from Scitex, the Scitex EverSmart Pro II or EverSmart Supreme. We begin testing these Scitex scanners shortly (March 2000), in Essen, Germany, courtesy of Scitex-Europe. We will use Mayan textiles as part of the test.

 

The textiles pictured here, however, were all photographed in Guatemala. All these textiles here are part of the study collections of the Museo Ixchel. How great it will be some day to have all these textiles available on CD to study at leisure, and at a higher resolution (not possible on the Internet, yet).

 

New page format posted November 18, 2009