To ensure output, patterns and color schemes are designed before workers begin weaving. Xinjiang carpets are mostly woven with vertical looms. Warp and weft threads are intertwined to create a base, ...

FLAGSTAFF — Navajo dye expert Mark Deschinny — like his grandmother and mother before him — uses local plants to make natural dyes for Navajo weaving.

Wichí artist Claudia Alarcón and the Silät collective reframe ancestral weaving as a living, expressive language in this ...