Far from being drudgery, weaving without a machine is, for many Indians, a route to emancipation and financial independence In the West, hand-weaving is a relic for museums, crafts fairs, and people ...

-- Companies announce pilot project to explore first-of-its-kind approach to more quickly and efficiently convert yarn directly into garments -- The pilot project directly addresses concerns about ...

Sometimes a comparison is more revealing than just a fact. India grows far more cotton than the US. But while cotton in the US is grown by large corporations on farms of vast acreage and harvested by ...

With ambitions to deploy 3D weaving machines across microsites in the US, Unspun aims to have 350 machines in operation by 2030. Credit: Shutterstock The pilot project between Walmart and Unspun will ...

SURAT: After selling one lakh conventional powerlooms in scrap due to adverse impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetization in the country's largest man-made fabric (MMF) hub of Surat, ...

The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, when machine-made cloth became all the rage, it was a skill that was much more widespread. Inspiring others to learn how to weave is an important part of what the ...