Weaving is one of the most complex and sophisticated examples of First Nations technology and culture. It produces objects of beauty, and the process itself has deep cultural significance.

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

Other than practices of resist-dyeing, hand-painting, and embroidery, the Indus Valley people were masters in the art of weaving. The Vedic Aryans and the Buddhists who settled in this region ...

Weaving is one of the oldest crafts in the world, and was also among the first to be automated: the Industrial Revolution was in large part driven by developments in loom technology. [Roger de ...

Traditional medicine, food sources and materials used for weaving and craft production, such as rattan, are all under threat. The livelihoods of the women of the Balik indigenous community depend on ...

Hugo Weaving has embodied some of cinema's greatest villains. From the dastardly AI program, Agent Smith to anarchist terrorist 'V', the award-winning actor isn't interested in playing "black and ...