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 ...

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 ...

The piña cloth is a light fabric popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unique to the Philippines and has been used to make traditional garments for centuries. The fabric is ...

Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country. The 67-year-old is helping to keep the age-old craft of Damask weaving alive. "There might be five ...

If there is a craft common to all of Southeast Asia, it is the craft of weaving. The baskets, mats and the fabrics of this region have all been part of the culture for thousands of years. Their ...

But weaving for me conjures images of ancient Mayan or Incan communities, vast tapestries, looms set by campfires, and bulky weaves that ward off the heavy snow. It’s this style of weaving captured in ...