Goan women are embracing a new wave of creativity and entrepreneurship ... women from across the state gather at Bambolim and ...

Inside, 18th- and 19th-century timber and iron looms, some towering over 16 feet tall, clatter furiously in rhythm with tens of thousands of luminous silk threads, weaving warp and weft yarns into ...

The handwoven Banarasi sari, with its intricate motifs and generous use of gold or silver zari – or thread – is widely ... the narrow lanes of the silk weaving neighborhood of Pili Kothi ...

Like other women in the long impoverished region, they are also weaving dreams of a better life. "Here, everything is done in an artisanal way, from cultivating and extracting silk threads to ...

Living with their families, they were leading lives with limited means. After joining the group, the women produced silk thread worth Rs 4,50,000, which earned them a net profit of Rs 1,40,000.

AFPTV / Quy Le BUI It's a painstaking process -- a large scarf requires the thread ... hundreds to weave from home. The profits are another reason to persevere. While a regular silk scarf might ...

For more than three millennia, silk thread produced in Iran has been used to make clothing fabric and for weaving Persian rugs. The Silk Road was a well-connected network of routes that, according to ...