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 ...

Though electric machines are now standard, the Venezuelan weaver Margarita Mora has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous ...

Weaver Chris Brashear irons a newly woven dish towel in Nantucket Looms' second-floor studio. Edgar B. Herwick III is an award-winning journalist who hosts The Curiosity Desk, GBH News’ daily show ...

Five refugee women graduate from Stitch Buffalo’s weaving program, gaining new skills and economic opportunities.

Before IBM, before punch-card computers, before Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, one of the very first machines that could run something like what we now call a "program" was used to make fabric.