The entire process takes time, and hand weaving in particular is very slow. It can take an entire day to produce just 15 inches of a fabric like damask, with its intricate designs.

In Laos, the art of traditional hand weaving is passed down by women from generation to generation. ... “In 2011, I started with 10 pieces of Lao silk skirts.

Although her entry into the market stemmed from her love of Khmer silk weaving, she admitted that initially, she knew very little about the actual weaving process. “I started to learn more when I ...

Weaving Atlas Silk is a common household skill with craftsmanship that still strongly resembling that 2,000 years ago. ... the pure hand-made silk has now become a hot souvenir, ...

In the past, weavers’ products often had imperfections or shrinkage because they were hand-woven. As the broker, San knows that if she sells poor quality products, she will lose customers. She ...

Silk Road youths pose for a group photo in Langzhong Silk Carpet Weaving Skills Exhibition Center. [Photo/cri.cn] "12 million knots! And it takes the weavers 3 years to make one carpet.

But Albania's postwar communist regime centralised it all to a single factory for processing and weaving silk, which was completely destroyed after the fall of the dictatorship in the early 1990s.