About Telar

Latest version: 0.3.3-beta Release Date: October 28, 2025

Beta Release This is a beta release for testing and feedback. Version 0.3.3-beta fixes a critical workflow bug that prevented deployment on protected branches.

Telar (Spanish for ‘loom’) is a static site generator built on Jekyll that weaves together IIIF images, text, and layered contextual information into interactive digital narrative exhibitions. Telar uses the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to serve high-resolution images that can be zoomed, panned, and explored in detail. The framework combines these images with narrative text and layered contextual panels to create immersive storytelling experiences.

Credits

Telar is developed by Adelaida Ávila, Juan Cobo Betancourt, Santiago Muñoz, and students and scholars at the UCSB Archives, Memory, and Preservation Lab, the UT Archives, Mapping, and Preservation Lab, and Neogranadina.

For more information, visit the Telar GitHub repository.

Telar was built with:

It is based on Paisajes Coloniales, and inspired by:

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Developed by Adelaida Ávila, Juan Cobo Betancourt, Santiago Muñoz, and students and scholars at the UCSB Archives, Memory, and Preservation Lab, the UT Archives, Mapping, and Preservation Lab, and Neogranadina