Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively ...

Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively ...

Inside, 18th- and 19th-century timber and iron looms, some towering over 16 feet tall, clatter furiously in rhythm with tens of thousands of luminous silk threads, weaving warp and weft yarns into ...

Africa's traditional crafts exhibit the continent's cultural wealth, inherited from one generation to another. From beadwork to textile designs, African crafts epitomize the rich cultures and ...

Despite the intricate work required, textiles have never really been considered in the realm of traditional art – but these ...

"[Silk weaving and dyeing] was a sense of pride and ... to improve the quality of the Laotian silk thread. "As the quality of the silk increases and or improves, and we increase the quantity ...

BHUBANESWAR : Rautapada, a small weavers’ village of 400 families, shares a special bond with the Shree Jagannath temple in Puri. For the last three decades, a group of weavers of the village ...