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 ...

“While weaving can be inherently complex and technical, it provides a fantastic framework for creative expression,” writes Daly at the start of her gorgeous introduction to weaving. Daly, a textile ...

Talk about south India weaves, and most textile experts rue the fact that traditional techniques of handloom weaving are fast disappearing Eons ago, a textile weaver at Kanchipuram had told me that he ...

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