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 ...

Amid the monotonous click-clack of a 19th century-style shuttle loom, Terri Knoedler’s thoughts sometimes turn to World War II. Knoedler weaves ribbon for military medals and her great-uncle, Lamar ...

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 Meester ...

Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished Weavers communicated over the noise using ...

An indefinite strike by 200,000 power-loom operators in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has paralysed the transformation of yarn into cloth in one of ...