The film provides an informative overview of the weaving process, highlighting the interlocking of warp and weft threads to create fabric. It explains the use of various looms, such as the backstrap ...

Marines Perez Santos is an unusual Maya weaver: He is male. As a child, Marines would help his mother prepare her backstrap loom for weaving by setting up the warp, or the set of threads placed ...

For years, Barbara Brandel bent over her loom, laboriously twisting bright silken threads into glossy one-of-a-kind jackets and capes. Her handwoven clothes were like paintings in thread, with bolts ...

Mizoram: Loin loom or backstrap loom is the main source of income for the people of Mizoram, especially women. ‘Puan’ which means cloth, is the traditional clothing of the native people of Mizoram and ...