Master weaver Prakash Siju from Bhujodi in Kutch is breathing new life into the age-old tradition of carpet weaving practised by giving it a new look through 'Project Tarasha'. The Rann of Kutch is a ...

Weaving has been around as a skill for centuries. While our ancestors used the technique of weaving to make everything from baskets and clothing to even walls and fences, it's now become more of a ...

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has built a large loom in a university building in Eindhoven that was used to create a nine-metre-tall 3D-woven structure, celebrating the craft and creative potential ...

What is a songket? How is it made? What are other Indonesian traditional fabrics that use similar weaving techniques? A newly launched book ' titled Floating Threads: Indonesian Songket and Other ...

Large-area display textiles can be produced by weaving transparent conductive weft and luminescent warp fibres using an industrial rapier loom. The integration of interactive functionalities, such as ...

Something as commonplace as a refrigerator top cover transforms into an appealing work of art. A layer of foam sandwiched between two layers of handloom cloth with the storage pockets at the sides ...

Warp and weft, zero and one: What has one of the oldest technologies of textile production to do with binary code? An international research team at Deutsches Museum and the Museum for Plaster Casts ...