The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

Patience, as the old saw goes, is a virtue – it’s just not one of ours. In our Christmas Day column we mentioned that we were so taken with weaving on the featured children’s loom that we ordered an ...

They say the key to learning something is to have fun while you are learning and you'll remember it better. Today I went On the Road to the Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind to find out about a new tool ...

Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country. The 67-year-old is helping to keep the age-old craft of Damask weaving alive. "There might be five ...

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data ...

Celebración Artística de las Américas artist-in-residence Samantha Vo invites the community to become part of her latest piece.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mangali Rai sat before a wooden loom probably a century old and played the antique instrument like a harp. As her feet pumped slender pedals, her fingers danced across taut strands ...

Judy Allen stands in a rustic metal barn on Broadway Avenue in east Stockton and looks upon an enterprise taking shape on the cusp of the new millennium. Futuristic is hardly a word that can be used ...

CHENNAI: It has been three months since 23-year-old Arvind Kumar first got his hands on a weaving loom at the Gurukulam Integrated Centre for Children with Special Needs where he studies. Although ...

Handwoven clothing? It often connotes images of bulky sweaters and scarves, harking from the Himalayan hilltops or Peruvian lowlands. Not, however, if it’s made by Adi Yair. The Jerusalem-based ...