How should foreign impact and commercial use of traditional design, with the intent to promote development in indigenous communities, be considered in relation to the lege de ferenda legal protection stipulated in
The rich Mayan weaving tradition in Guatemala has survived even though the indigenous population has been subject to centuries of hardship and oppression. After conducting a field study and scrutinising the commercialisation process of the traditional designs in five different producer cooperatives of which, for the purpose of this thesis, some are characterised as weaving cooperatives and others