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An ancient tomb in southern China has provided the oldest known examples, in scaled-down form, of revolutionary weaving machines called pattern looms. Four immobile models of pattern looms illuminate ...

Norse sails loomed off the shores of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, along the northeastern coast of Great Britain, on June 8, 793. The seafaring invaders sacked the island’s undefended monastery. The ...

KYOTO--Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, is getting a high-tech collaborator: artificial ...

The weavers represent three distinct traditions. Heirloom weaver Margaret Russell creates hand- woven apparel; Janice Anton and Sandy Hopkins are traditional basket weavers; and wheat weaver Roberta ...

In Western culture, the perception of weaving as “women’s work” can be traced back to Penelope, the loyal wife of Homer’s wandering Odysseus who cleverly put off her insistent suitors for years by ...