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 ...

Suraj’s voice is drowned in the noise of the thana-bana (warp-weft) coming together to form cloth. It is Tuesday, the day he pays out weekly wages before the weekly day off on Wednesday.

“If I have a magnificent obsession, it’s the sari,” states Malvika Singh—writer, curator, cultural historian, and a doyenne of Indian textiles. In her new book, Saris of Memory, she uses ...

What is thread count? Woven fabric is made of horizontal (weft) and vertical (warp) yarns. If a piece of fabric has 100 warp yarns and 100 weft yarns in a square inch, it would be a 200-thread ...

Kanchipuram cotton and Rasipuram silk sarees from Tamil Nadu apply for prestigious Geographical Indication tag for unique craftsmanship.

Set in Varanasi an ancient city of India Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives are interwoven through the production of the silk ...