A weaving trial with a size-lesscotton warp yarn (20/1 Ne) was conducted under mill-like conditions on a modernhigh-speed, flexible-rapier weaving machine. About 100 yards of a 1/2-twillfabric (64 epi ...

WEAVING has long been closely associated with Filipino women, but across the country, Filipino men are also helping to preserve the craft, carry forward indigenous traditions and build livelihoods ...

Four years ago, Ritika Mittal could no longer ignore her inner voice, which had been nagging her to move out of her comfort zone and do more. Her zone was comfortable enough. She had left Jalalabad, ...

A Karur-based powerloom weaver has spent four months creating a unique 133-page book featuring Thirukkural couplets printed ...

Mohammad Ameen sits on a mat on the floor, surrounded by piles of cotton. On one side is stiff cotton, and on the other is the fluffy, soft stuff. Sitting between the piles, Ameen uses a handmade ...

Silk It has existed since ancient times and is said to have been woven by Tanabata-hime-no-mikoto. In ancient times, it was ...

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 ...