PRESERVING culture is often spoken as an act of memory. As Filipinos, we are tasked to protect what we have inherited, honor ...

Assam's master weaver Hemoprova Chutia achieved a remarkable feat by hand-embroidering and weaving the entire Bhagwad Gita ...

Her passion for sarees led her to focus deeply on handlooms. Varshitha Keshava, founder of Amrtesvari Satika and a Karnataka-based textile revivalist, has been actively promoting traditional weaves ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a store near you perhaps are bales of fabric that weave in the promise of killing the coronavirus, innovations tailored for pandemic times by prominent players in the textile industry but viewed ...

Palpa is famous for its Dhaka weaves, but Pabi Sara Rajali did not know this when she first ran away from home to come here more than 20 years ago. From a Magar household, she did not even speak ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have been honoured with a Guinness World Record for weaving threads of individual molecules together to create the world's finest fabric, ...