Khamson Srathong, 78, sits comfortably in front of a weaving loom under her raised-floor house in Ban Phon village in Kalasin's Kham Muang district. Despite her old age, her hands move synchronously ...
African Kente weaving is a traditional craft that hails from Ghana and is famous for its vibrant colors and intricate ...
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 ...
Weaving is described as the orderly interlacing of fibres and pressing them together to make the cloth. In Nigeria, cloth weaving is universally practised in most urban areas and cities like Abeokuta, ...
Arob Rueangsung, 59, always has a smile on her face when she welcomes visitors to Na Muen Si village in Trang. Two decades ago, Arob led a group of housewives in this southern province to search for ...
"We feed our family and also pay children's school fees with proceeds from this business," one of the women said. His striking, vulnerable eyes pounced on every object in the large earthen compound ...
“I want to encourage young people to learn weaving, so they will never forget where they come from, to hold their culture alive and also pass it down to the next generation.” This is how Ku Say, a ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Velvet weaving in Iran took the downward slope in the 1950s when a velvet and silk factory was established in Kashan. At that time most, if not all, traditional textile masters ...