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 ...

Warp and weft, zero and one: What has one of the oldest technologies of textile production to do with binary code? An international research team at Deutsches Museum and the Museum for Plaster Casts ...

Maths wasn't Eleanor Pritchard's strongest subject at school. She might have paid more attention had she realised how much maths is involved in weaving. "It's all about counting," she says.

A 50-square-meter patch of field and 100 cotton trees. That’s all that Jin Shirai needs to make his living. Shirai is a weaver, though the term only represents part of what he actually does. As a ...