September 22, 2002
Maya Textile Museum

The NewsMexico.com site has an article about a new home for the Pellizzi collection of Maya textiles that our friend Chip Morris started assembling over 25 years ago.

Chiapas museum to display pre-Columbian Mayan textiles

It's great that the collection finally has a home, but I'll have to ask Chip for more of the story. I think there are factual and copy editing mistakes in this article. The weaving cooperative mentioned (which Chip helped organize) is called Sna Jolobil, house of the weaver, not San Jolobil. And the headline refers to pre-Columbian Mayan textiles. While some designs are that old, to my knowledge there are no surviving textiles from that period, although paintings, carvings and clay impressions do exist. Is that right, Chip?

UPDATE 9/23 Chip has added a comment:
There are surviving pre-columbian maya textiles but none in the Pellizzi Collection. The Museum project is stalled and the collection is now being housed in Funerales del Centro.

Posted by Dave at September 22, 2002 10:05 AM