I ndigenous weaver and fashion designer Alberto Lopez knew he wanted to be a traditional weaver early on, but there was a problem: the artisans who worked the looms in his village in the lush ...

Short of providing the names Joe Harris and Monte Morris, Troy Weaver essentially called his shot for what the Pistons would do a week before the NBA’s free-agent frenzy began at 6 p.m. June 30 – and, ...

Seated on the thinnai of his home at Musiri, senior weaver Ganapathi stares into a distance, deep in thought. He wears a bright checked lungi he wove himself and nearby, sits a small stack of checked ...

PERUGIA, ITALY-At the back of a 13th-century stone church, high in this sspectacular Italian hilltop city, history is being made — one thread at a time. Master weaver and studio owner Marta Cucchia ...

Driven by his artistic flair, 35-year-old weaver Nalla Vijay here weaved a silk sari with silver gleam on a power loom, adding another masterpiece to his credit. Mr Vijay has earned wide acclaim for ...

A world away in San Cristobal de las Casas, indigenous weaver and fashion designer Alberto Lopez makes handmade huipils from cotton or wool thread and natural pigments to create patterns bursting with ...