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 ...

BANGUED, Abra(PIA) — Innovation initiatives of the government through the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) involve the fusion of Abra’s Abel and Japanese Textiles to craft innovative, ...

By turning discarded textiles into vibrant tapestries, Natalia Tan invites strangers to slow down, reflect, and find connection with themselves and each other.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) – An abandoned mill that collapsed in flames Friday ...

Melvenea Hodges knows that many African-Americans who migrated to northern cities like South Bend did so to get away from the cotton boll and what it represented. Generations of our ancestors were ...

Maintaining culture and language is very important for the Karen ethnic group from Burma/Myanmar particularly when resettling to other foreign countries. Weaving Karen traditional longyi for men on a ...

Skein, Sheep/Commercial Roving: 1. Martha Monsson, Fort Morgan; 2. Diane Sprague, Brush; 2. Joan Pierce, Snyder. Weaving Clothing/Harness Loom: 1. Martha Monsson ...

Lo Thi Dam is quite agile on her loom, and a piece of fabric soon takes shape that will then be dyed and embroidered in colourful thread. She proudly wears a graceful headdress and skirt she made ...

Like the loom, AI may turn the job market upside down. And enable new technologies and jobs that we simply can’t predict.

It was about 12,000 years ago, when humans began taming and breeding animals, that they learned that wool fleece could be spun into a yarn for weaving clothes. This discovery led to a revolution in ...