Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country. The 67-year-old is helping to keep the age-old craft of Damask weaving alive. "There might be five ...

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 ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

EASILY ADJUSTABLE > It is easy to adjust the angle of the loom for maximum comfort. All you have to do is slide the loom into the grooves on the tops of the legs, attach the adjuster bars, tighten the ...

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Shuttles and Needles, a textile design academy, seeks to simplify and promote the art of weaving. From portable to wifi-operated looms, it’s got it all to suit needs of both beginners and advanced ...

CHENNAI: It has been three months since 23-year-old Arvind Kumar first got his hands on a weaving loom at the Gurukulam Integrated Centre for Children with Special Needs where he studies. Although ...

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Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.

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