Textiles, dress and society at the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena, Guatemala City

Guatemalan textiles and costume-living folk traditions that have only recently come to be appreciated in the same terms as the architectural monuments of the country's past-are preserved and studied by a new museum that works directly with the communities concerned. In Portugal another new museum, created to preserve and display the fashions and fineries of several centuries, is attracting an ever-increasing number of keenly motivated visitors.