A Kani shawl takes up to three years to make. The artisan who makes it earns roughly Rs 300 a day. The retailer who sells it earns ten times that from a single transaction. Somewhere between the loom ...

From pit looms to the intricate twisting of threads, this Gujarat craft reveals how pattern, structure, and memory come together in cloth. In Gujarat’s Surendranagar district, Tangaliya remains one of ...

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Assam’s muga silk comes from the cocoons of a silkworm species that cannot exist outside the specific climatic conditions of the Brahmaputra Valley. Unlike most silks, muga is not dyed—the luminous ...

LA UNION, Philippines – Phil Marie Nogueras-Lucina, general manager of Nogueras Weaving, hit on an idea last year of incorporating their famous Bangar weaves into ukay-ukay (second-hand) jackets. She ...

Scopely has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Loom Games, the developer of mobile title Pixel Flow. The Istanbul-based mobile studio was founded last year by CEO Kübra Gündoğan and CTO ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — The BAAAhd Girls are out to give weavers across the state a BAAAhd time at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. In the group’s first outing in the farm show’s Sheep To Shawl competition last ...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union (PIA) — Bangar, La Union expanded its loom weaving capacity with the opening of the Phase 2 Shared Service Facility (SSF), strengthening the production of Abel Bangar and ...

Whenever we think about purchasing a stunning piece of shawl, the first name that pops into our minds is a Pashmina. But, do you know that the most expensive type of Kashmiri shawl is the Shantoosh, ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation. There is a shirt currently ...