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 ...

span class="caption" style="width: 398px;">Local pride: A woman weaver holds up one of her ikat in Watublapi village in Sikka, 30 kilometers from the largest city in ...

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 ...

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 ...