Stroud and its famous Five Valleys once thrived as a vital centre for creating woollen cloth, enrobing kings, soldiers and nobility all over ...

The weaving process, often a family endeavour, involves men operating the looms while women help in dyeing, stretching the yarn, and post-weave embellishments.

It and five other antique shuttle looms in the store conjure up an industrial past when engineers and mechanics combined their skills to produce spider-like contraptions in which gears, rods, thin ...

Joseph Marie Jacquard Awards and Achievements In 1804, Jacquard won a gold medal and patent for his loom invention. Local handweavers did not approve of the machine, though it threatened their ...

Today, in this Little Manchester of Maharashtra, handlooms and power looms are giving way to cutting-edge shuttle-less looms, weaving a future driven by technology and precision.

In July this year, a shuttle flew from a loom (sinchai) machine and hit him in the left eye. A spindle-shaped wooden device that carries the threads back and forth in the weaving process, the shuttle ...

They often break down, but the only people who know how to repair the machines are in their 70s or older, Momotaro weaving craftsman Shigeru Uchida said. The brand uses a handful of shuttle looms made ...

It’s part of the wider denim-producing Sanbi area, which also includes Hiroshima. Another factor that makes brands like Momotaro Jeans idiosyncratic — and expensive — is the use of very noisy old ...

Another factor that makes brands like Momotaro Jeans idiosyncratic — and expensive — is the use of very noisy old shuttle-weaving machines, which have only a quarter of the output of the ...

It's part of the wider denim-producing Sanbi area, which also includes Hiroshima. Another factor that makes brands like Momotaro Jeans are idiosyncratic – and expensive – is the use of very noisy old ...