When Daniel Harris rescued a rusting loom from an old barn in rural Wales, it led to the creation of London's first micro-mill. Established in 2011, the London Cloth Company uses traditional weaving ...
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Weaving cloth from nettle plants has declined with the arrival of imported fabrics in the country. Yet, in Samdrup Jongkhar’s ...
Muslin, popularly know as Calico, produced in Kozhikode, was once famous the world over. But the knowledge and technique of weaving the cloth died with its weavers, who once caught the attention of ...
SALISBURY — Learning from her mother how to use a sewing machine as a child, fiber artist Esther Rodgers got her start in textiles, she said, “making patchwork clothes and selling them at Phish ...
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 ...
More than a decade ago, no one in the northern province of Lamphun gave much attention to "geographical indication", a status that identifies a product with its specific origin. But today the province ...
I’d heard about the Aspen Institute’s new effort to go beyond ordinary politics in our fractious America and focus instead on what we have in common. Because, otherwise, it’s pretty bad out there.
Manetha village in Rajasthan with the population of hardly 500 people holds a prominent position on the Indian map due to the committed approach of the weavers devoted to weaving the cloth for ...