Far from being drudgery, weaving without a machine is, for many Indians, a route to emancipation and financial independence In the West, hand-weaving is a relic for museums, crafts fairs, and people ...

KUANTAN, Pahang: A rhythmic thud rang through a fabric workshop in Kampung Soi in Kuantan, where weavers were working attentively. Each operated a wooden handloom as big as a grand piano, their hands ...

Khadi, a hand-spun and hand-woven fabric, symbolizes economic strength and local business empowerment in India. The Khadi and Village Industries Commission reported a record turnover in 2024-25, ...

WeaveinIndia are curators of the hand-woven. The founder, Mandira Bansal aims at reviving the customary practice of hand weaving and experimenting with a diverse framework of textiles and colour ...

At Nairobi's Industrial Area, a maker of fabrics and other home furnishings is becoming the success story of a Kenyan designer taking handwoven textile to the next level. The rhythmic sounds of ...

Sometimes a comparison is more revealing than just a fact. India grows far more cotton than the US. But while cotton in the US is grown by large corporations on farms of vast acreage and harvested by ...

BENGALURU: A social conversation about India in foreign countries often involves the country’s ‘spicy’ food, its large population, or the booming IT sector. But there’s so much more to the country, ...

Colourful like flowers, exquisite like art pieces and glittering like stars _ these are more than 150 antique textiles from palaces, local and ethnic communities in Thailand and other Asian countries.

For Sarah Zapata, hand-weaving is a metaphor for both expressing and examining different facets of her identity. By Aileen Kwun As a queer undergrad studying fiber arts and weaving at the University ...

Kevin Donaghy, who has died aged 93 in Bruckless, Co Donegal, was a leading figure in the world of Irish textiles. Part of his life was dedicated to preserving and developing the craft of handwoven ...