Leininger rents out weaving equipment such as tabletop looms, which are smaller replicas of a traditional loom. “The problem ...

Their work includes weaving a special fabric tape called galon, to replace the existing galon, which provides a framework on tapestries from medieval times. It s been some of the most complicated work ...

A spirit of experimentation, one foot in the past and one in the future, has set Christy Matson apart as a weaver. “It’s unusual these days not to be working on a commission,” Matson says, standing ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. When I was studying textile ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bute Fabrics has been weaving wool, alpaca, linen and silk into cloth inside a former orphanage and convent on ...

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 ...

Her face and hands are full of lines and wrinkles, but her memory is still sharp. Nguan Sermsri, of tambon Ban Puek in Chon Buri province is still teaching others how to weave the rare Ang Sila cotton ...

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 ...