Once a thriving hub of industry, the textile mill now stands abandoned but still home to hundreds of colour coordinated yarns. The looms have stood unused for decades and the mill’s machinery is ...

Nancy Peck has been a weaving instructor for nearly 40 years. She started in 1976, after graduating from Michigan State University as a textile major, and later shared her skills at workshops in ...

COIMBATORE: Ninety per cent of the over 2.5 lakh job workers in the power loom sector are staring at a bleak Deepavali this year as the master weavers have not placed orders citing high yarn price.

“Come to the Timberyard. We’re here weaving,” says Cristina Nicotra. It’s noon on Tuesday and an industrious gang of weavers and budding historians has gathered. The Liberties Weavers run classes in a ...