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 ...

Step into the world of silk production and discover how this luxurious fabric is created. In this video, we explore the ...

Few would have expected that from the slender and rough stems of the lotus plant, it is possible to extract a resilient and beautifully lustrous fibre, sufficient to weave such a exquisite fabric. The ...

(It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, but the property laws in many states made it illegal for women to own property on their own.

Agricultural wisdom, including rice farming, livestock farming, sericulture and silk weaving, has been passed down in this community for centuries. "Local folks continue to preserve their old ...

it is also the centre of UK silk weaving, with its luxurious fabrics known all around the world. So, when the renowned 18th-century portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough’s ...

It is said that the town still has hundreds of families engaged in weaving the fabric ... It is made primarily from a blend of silk and cotton, resulting in a fabric that is comfortable for ...

In sericulture and the traditional production of silk for weaving, farmers care for the silkworms through their entire lifecycle, growing the mulberry trees that provide leaves upon which the worms ...

"In Belarus, straw weaving has been practiced for a long time. This craft is more than 1,000 years old. Eastern Slavs began to use straw as a material for weaving at the turn of the II-I ...

The Belarusian practice of straw weaving emphasizes the spiritual value and symbolism of both material and product. Staw is woven to produce a variety of objects such as boxes and baskets, headgear, ...