When the hackspace where this is being written created their textile room, a member who had previously been known only for her other work unexpectedly revealed herself to be a weaver, and offered ...

Tucked away in the basement of her home in Bodines, Wanda Gardner takes strips of fabric that might otherwise be discarded ...

A worker at Thistle Hill Weavers inspects cloth fresh from the loom. Bridget Badore Designers like Wiley know that something as simple as the weight of a fabric in a shirt or a coat can make an ...

Bhiwandi is about 58 kilometers (36 miles) from India’s financial capital, Mumbai. Its proximity to the sea and the large metropolis make it an attractive location for small manufacturers and ...

With Eid-ul-Fitr just a week away, weavers in Pabna and Sirajganj, the country's major handloom cloth-producing regions ... is now working as a labourer to make his ends meet.

Pemagatshel—Nima Seldon, a 50-year-old artisan from Thongsa village in Chongshing, is a master weaver of cotton cloth, known locally as Mongan Khamung. Despite her skills, she fears for the future of ...

In recent years, however, about 30% of the looms have shut down, according to Abdul Rashid Tahir Momin, President of Bhiwandi Powerloom Weavers ... looms that make higher quality cloth faster ...