The recent flood has wreaked havoc on the handloom and power loom industries in Sirajganj and Pabna districts, causing loss worth over Tk 100 crore and rendering over 8,25,000 loom workers jobless, ...

ALLEGAN, MI-- We all do it...some of us each and every day. Go to the store, buy clothes, towels, rugs, sheets, or some type of assembled fabric. Question is...has it ever occurred how they're made?

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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 ...

About three thousand Jewish weavers in the big textile city of Lodz who have been accustomed to working on hand-looms are in a desperate position without any prospect of ever obtaining employment in ...

[Fred Hoefler] was challenged to finally do something with that Raspberry Pi he wouldn’t keep quiet about. So he built a machine assist loom for the hand weaver. Many older weavers simply can’t enjoy ...

Computers attached to wooden Industrial Revolution-style looms are transforming home hand weavers into savvy professionals. For years hobbyists would weave rugs or scarves for Christmas presents, but ...

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