The Indian sub-continent has a rich and ancient history of textile art and exports, with the heritage spanning almost 5,000 years. It’s been found that fabric-making was an important part of people’s ...

“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

SPINNING YARN: Anni Albers weaves at Black Mountain College. The influential instructor and her work at BMC is a focal point of a new exhibition at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

For most of us, palaspas is an ordinary adornment made of palm fronds used during Palm Sunday, but what we do not know is that such an ordinary adornment is an intricate weaving of a way of life, an ...

If the 19th-century coverlets in Ron Walter’s collection could tell stories, a whole new chapter on middle-class life in America could be written. Walter bought his first two colorful loom-woven bed ...

DULUTH - It was like a Norman Rockwell painting. Four people hoisted a large log onto their shoulders. Through the snow, they trudged about 100 feet from a ground-level workshop to a Congdon Park ...

It all started with a trip to the museum. Fourteen months ago, Marty Benson of Eureka Springs and Laura Redford of Rogers came across a unique textile at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in ...

For Pat Burnell, working with wheat has woven great joy into her life. Six years ago, the Washburn resident attended a seminar sponsored by the Illinois Association of Wheat Weavers. After seeing ...

Just outside Dhaka is a cluster of scenic villages, with humble bamboo huts set among lush green paddy fields. Listen closely as you approach and you will feel the entire place resonate with the ...