Setting up heddles and weaving 1

Coastal Ecuadorians have at least a 4,000 year history of weaving with cotton-- hammocks, bags, and cloths made on a vertical loom, which in today’s rural bamboo house is suspended from a hardwood cross-beam and fixed with an adjustable rope underneath the bamboo floor. Here you see the Master Weaver, Trinidad Catagua Párraga from the village of Zapote, Manabí province setting up the heddles to weave a patterned design. She is the only weaver in the entire province who is currently active in this cra