The mighty theater curtains of Japan known as doncho are made of one, intricately woven piece of fabric. The curtains, made using sophisticated traditional weaving techniques, are considered works of ...

A family-owned weaving business in Pennsylvania that started out making silk hat bands in the 1920s is helping NASA build key components for the Orion spacecraft, which could help carry humans to Mars ...

Silk fabric was introduced to Japan from China in the third century. Roughly a century later the Japanese were raising their own silkworms and weaving their own silk. While silkworms were cultivated ...

About two years ago, Brooklyn artist Doug Johnston got an itch to learn traditional basket-weaving techniques, so he did what any reasonable man hunting for tips on ancient crafts might do: He scoured ...