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 ...

GROVE, Okla. — Weaving classes at Har-Ber Village Museum will introduce crafters to the warp, weave and finish of rag rugs. The class will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the museum, ...

A 50-square-meter patch of field and 100 cotton trees. That's all that Jin Shirai needs to make his living. Shirai is a weaver, though the term only represents part of what he actually does. As a ...

Patience, as the old saw goes, is a virtue – it’s just not one of ours. In our Christmas Day column we mentioned that we were so taken with weaving on the featured children’s loom that we ordered an ...