Weaving is one of the oldest crafts in the world, and was also among the first to be automated: the Industrial Revolution was in large part driven by developments in loom technology. [Roger de Meester ...

On Thursday morning, as the sun warmed a barn full of old looms at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, Bill Rafnel was working on his latest project: a red table runner. Even if he wanted ...

A Florida-based investment firm has acquired a Lebanon-based textile weaver. Keystone Weaving was acquired by Banyan, a private investment firm. The transaction includes the purchase of Jacquard and ...

LESSONS in the traditional art of weaving are being held at a historic Yorkshire textile mill on 100-year-old looms. A new series of weaving classes for beginners has been launched at Sunny Bank Mills ...

Talk about south India weaves, and most textile experts rue the fact that traditional techniques of handloom weaving are fast disappearing Eons ago, a textile weaver at Kanchipuram had told me that he ...

It’s a lovely Sunday morning and Adappa Chinappa Alorli, 79, is pedalling away on his dobby loom, weaving khana. “I have been weaving since I was 12 or 13. I continue to do it because it keeps me ...