an invention which is as valuable for the weaving of hair cloth as the power loom for the weaving of cotton cloth. Figure I is a front elevation ; ligure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section ...

The kente cloth is a traditional African cloth – the colors and design hold a specific meaning. It is the most popular and best-known of all African textiles. Originally, royalty exclusively wore ...

Time was when the kente was a strictly royal cloth reserved only for the most special of occasions and the elite of Ghanaian societies. Today the kente is widely available to all of us ...

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped in scarves made from a cloth of colourful geometric Ghanaian designs called kente. It turned ...

The ancestral home is very close to Bonwire, the birthplace of the world-famous kente fabric, and the artist grew up wearing the traditional multi-coloured cloth. He also learned how to weave it ...

The most commonly used materials for weaving on a warp-weighted loom are wool, linen and hemp. The earliest woolen cloths found in Scandinavia are quite rough and irregular, but cloths dating from the ...

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 ...

When partners in a relationship don’t practice weaving, then they probably don’t realize how important it is to make their ...

By examining the work of designers of African descent, a new exhibition in Manhattan finds common threads and, more ...

Other than practices of resist-dyeing, hand-painting, and embroidery, the Indus Valley people were masters in the art of weaving ... The entire cloth-making process which was done by hand ...

The 2024 edition of “Rhythms On Da Runway” will honour some individuals who have contributed immensely to the advancement of ...