Traditional weaving

To create their intricately beautiful array of fabrics, A Rum Fellow’s cofounders, husband-and-wife Dylan O’Shea and Caroline Lindsell, draw on centuries-old techniques found in Guatemala. “It’s a nation that lives and breathes textiles,” says O’Shea. There, family-run weavers produce the London-based studio’s brightly colored brocades and fabrics, which debut in the U.S. this summer with

Traditional two warp fabric workshop in eastern Poland photography by Piotr Gesicki

Turkish handwoven rug work. This skill will be lost if Turkey continues to modernize their work force.

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Learn about the traditional Bedouin weaving style called sadu at Sadu House, or buy products from the Al Sadu Weaving Cooperative Society in its online shop.

THE KINDCRAFT talks with Cusco's Center for Traditional Textiles founder Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez about the past—and future—of Peruvian weaving craft.

South India Tamil nadu © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

It is known that weaving is one of the oldest craft forms in the Middle East, but nomadic lifestyles and cultural interactions of the past, disregard political borders and political agreements, making it very difficult to accurately attribute material culture to specific tribes and places of origin. Long before Islam, these migratory cultures from the vast region of the Arabian Gulf had been influencing one another, sharing weaving techniques and common functions, creative ideas and…

Today, we're looking at what might just be universal beauty - extraordinary beauty that arises from humble roots.

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