Guatemala Sawdust Carpets

These carpets range from the relatively simple to the very complex as seen in the photo below in antigua s la merced church.

Guatemala sawdust carpets.

Other cities also have street carpets at easter. The guinness world record for longest sawdust and floral carpet was set in 2014 in guatemala city the capital. The next step is to lay down a background color. We cut out various stencils by hand to make the designs in this case the smithsonian sunburst and our 50th anniversary logo make an appearance.

This years guatemala s easter festival is more of flowers and sawdust. As elaborate and individual as they are ephemeral alfombras are carpets that adorn the street routes of church processions during the season of lent. Artists use wooden stencils to create the intricate designs. Semana santa or easter s holy week in antigua guatemala 2010 sees some of the most elaborate sawdust carpets in the world made out of fruit flowers and more these carpets are incredibly.

A sawdust carpet decorated with geometrical patterns and food is displayed during semana santa in la antigua guatemala id. Antigua guatemala dyes its sawdust and then uses it to make some of the coolest carpets you ll ever see. And now they beat their own record with 6 600 ft way more than last year s record. Sawdust carpet antigua guatemala carpets are created within churches during the time of the vigils which are held to honor the statues that will be used in procession.

The designs themselves use fine colored sawdust. The process begins by gathering sawdust from local lumber yards which is then dyed with brightly colored aniline dyes from guatemala. Sawdust carpets like this one in the historic city of antigua line city streets in guatemala each year during holy week the week that precedes the christian festival of easter.