Each day, women from across the state gather at Bambolim and sit together to weave silk threads into beautiful pieces of ...

Six yards of silk unfurls, the fabric gently rustles around your body as you wear it, the pleats are stiffly tucked in, the pallu shines with intricate designs.

Zamzamzairani said the second silk weaving training centre was another milestone for the Maybank Women Eco-Weavers programme in Cambodia, which aimed to help Cambodian women achieve economic ...

Long before borders were built and empires fell, before railways cut across forests and textiles became brands, there were ...

In India’s Meghalaya, silkworm rearing and weaving are common in rural areas, now several women are using solar-powered ...

I started with 10 pieces of Lao silk skirts. I posted them on Facebook and everybody loved it. So from that time, my [Facebook] shop became well known.” 02:45 Laotian hand weaving by women ...

URUMQI, April 1 (Xinhua) -- In a remote village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a dynamic group of rural women, including designers, tailors, livestreamers and marketers, work ...

The group works with a ­network of weavers, all of them older women ... silk, and rely on bold, striking designs on a limited colour palette, instead of the floral motifs favoured in Iranian weaving.

Yuki-tsumugi is a Japanese silk-weaving technique found principally in Yuki City and Oyama City, along the Kinu River, north of Tokyo. The region boasts a warm climate and fertile lands, which are ...

all of them older women from Georgia’s Muslim Azerbaijani ethnic minority. Though influenced by Persian rugs, the Borchalo carpets produced by Zemfira and other local weavers are made of woollen yarn, ...