HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread. Her great-aunt ...

Gjadër, Dajc, Albania: Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively recently. And few were more chic than the women of ...

Panaji: In India, the silk industry has long thrived — thanks to traditional garments like the sari — and the women of India have remained its most ardent supporters. Goan women are embracing a new ...

For over a century, thousands of weavers in and around Bengaluru Rural district’s Doddaballapur who depended solely on ...