The Indian sub-continent has a rich and ancient history of textile art and exports, with the heritage spanning almost 5,000 years. It’s been found that fabric-making was an important part of people’s ...

In Western culture, the perception of weaving as “women’s work” can be traced back to Penelope, the loyal wife of Homer’s wandering Odysseus who cleverly put off her insistent suitors for years by ...

Just outside Dhaka is a cluster of scenic villages, with humble bamboo huts set among lush green paddy fields. Listen closely as you approach and you will feel the entire place resonate with the ...

Dozens of spools of various types of yarns colorfully line the back of the weaving room at the Opportunity House. Bruce Ball sits at his eight-harness loom, using his hands and feet to operate it as ...

Pei Ming, 66, an artist in Urumqi, has been researching the history of Xinjiang carpets. [Photo by XING WEN/CHINA DAILY] As an ancient Silk Road crossroads, Xinjiang produces carpets reflecting ...

“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

For most of us, palaspas is an ordinary adornment made of palm fronds used during Palm Sunday, but what we do not know is that such an ordinary adornment is an intricate weaving of a way of life, an ...

It all started with a trip to the museum. Fourteen months ago, Marty Benson of Eureka Springs and Laura Redford of Rogers came across a unique textile at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in ...

If the Masons of the future want this historical record -- which is also a thing of beauty in its patchwork-quilt, folk art way -- Barker's skill with needle and thread is needed. Across the room at ...

Using silk thread as fine as a spider's spinnings, Kate Barker was carefully conserving a banner of old Masonic lodge insignias last month -- something sewed together in the 19th century that's now ...