Master weaver Prakash Siju from Bhujodi in Kutch is breathing new life into the age-old tradition of carpet weaving practised by giving it a new look through 'Project Tarasha'. The Rann of Kutch is a ...

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

What is a songket? How is it made? What are other Indonesian traditional fabrics that use similar weaving techniques? A newly launched book ' titled Floating Threads: Indonesian Songket and Other ...

A 50-square-meter patch of field and 100 cotton trees. That's all that Jin Shirai needs to make his living. Shirai is a weaver, though the term only represents part of what he actually does. As a ...

Warp and weft, zero and one: What has one of the oldest technologies of textile production to do with binary code? An international research team at Deutsches Museum and the Museum for Plaster Casts ...

Something as commonplace as a refrigerator top cover transforms into an appealing work of art. A layer of foam sandwiched between two layers of handloom cloth with the storage pockets at the sides ...