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 ...

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 ...

Hand weaving has, for all practical purposes, become a lost art. With the exception of the Harris tweed jacket — a “good find” staple of local rummage sales — few examples of handwoven clothing are ...

There are 2,000 bolts of hand-woven cloth stacked in He Yongdi's two-story house in Chongming Island. Over the past 15 years, the 46-year-old woman has been collecting the unique hand-woven materials ...