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 ...

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data ...

Here I'll show you how to warp an embroidery hoop to weave upon much like circle loom weaving (if you've never tried circle ...

Patience, as the old saw goes, is a virtue – it’s just not one of ours. In our Christmas Day column we mentioned that we were so taken with weaving on the featured children’s loom that we ordered an ...

Shuttles and Needles, a textile design academy, seeks to simplify and promote the art of weaving. From portable to wifi-operated looms, it’s got it all to suit needs of both beginners and advanced ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

It's a tale as old as 2020: One day, I was in the NPR office making after-work plans with friends; the next, I was taking my laptop home to work remotely for "just a few weeks." A few weeks later, I ...

Kayla Levy is a writer particularly passionate about indoor plants and outdoor gear. She used to write about cities at Time Out (and she still enjoys writing about the Park Slope Food Co-op). Lots of ...

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 ...

Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country. The 67-year-old is helping to keep the age-old craft of Damask weaving alive. "There might be five ...