These techniques often involve folding or twisting fabric before applying dye, resulting in unique patterns that echo the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Olga de Amaral, “Woven Gridded Wall #66" (Muro tejido cuadriculado #66) (1970), wool and horsehair, 119 x 70 x 20 inches (all photos Julie Smith Schneider/Hyperallergic) A current of cross-cultural, ...

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 ...

WEAVING is an ancient craft of man dating to the early new stone age when he learnt to make a rough kind of clothing from the fibers of flax plants. Weaving is described as the orderly interlacing of ...

Nestled next to the green fields along the banks of the Red River, Nha Xá silk cloth weaving village in Duy Tiên District of Hà Nam Province has a history of more than 700 years and the ancient craft ...

Ninety-five kilometers from Kolkata, West Bengal is the town of Ambika Kalna or Kalna, positioned on the western bank of the Bhagirathi. This is the place where Jyotish Debnath was born, the place ...

His striking, vulnerable eyes pounced on every object in the large earthen compound where he gathered his toys. Mojeed flocked around his 25-year-old mother, Taiwo Abduljelil, while she got busy with ...