More than a decade ago, no one in the northern province of Lamphun gave much attention to "geographical indication", a status that identifies a product with its specific origin. But today the province ...

Assam's master weaver Hemoprova Chutia achieved a remarkable feat by hand-embroidering and weaving the entire Bhagwad Gita ...

Arob Rueangsung, 59, always has a smile on her face when she welcomes visitors to Na Muen Si village in Trang. Two decades ago, Arob led a group of housewives in this southern province to search for ...

Assam's master weaver, Hemoprova Chutia, has been honored with the Padma Shri for her extraordinary feat of hand-embroidering ...

Taking the art of weaving to new heights, Hemprabha Chutia, a 62-year-old woman weaver, has weaved the entire Bhagavad Gita on cloth in Sanskrit. Bhagvad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture in ...

TIGANESTI, Romania From the sanctity of a 19th-century convent, Romanian nuns weave vivid, Byzantine cloth for Orthodox priests. Now word of the sumptuous silk has reached fashion designers — and soon ...

For Assam-based weaver Hemprabha, her nine months were spent doing something unusual. Weaving 500 verses of Bhagavad Geeta in Sanskrit and a chapter in English was a task she called upon herself.

Workers weave cloth at a workshop in Jizhou District of Hengshui, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 25, 2018. Local impoverished households are able to increase income through learning a traditional ...

For most, the history of weaving, tapestry and spinning is seldom reflected upon, but as an integral part of our society's history we take a look at the industries' prosperous past in Norfolk.

Dibrugarh (Assam) [India] Dec 01. (ANI): Breaking the language barrier, Hemprabha, a weaver from Assam, is weaving Bhagwat Geeta on cloth in English and Sanskirt. She started this work last year in ...