Posts Tagged ‘Cotton’
Aug 17
A Textile Tour of Tribal Weaving in Indonesia
“The most exciting textile tour you are ever likely to find – the trip of a lifetime!” This is the lead sentence for the Tribal Weaving of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia that hooked me this past May. Did it hook you? Indonesia has been at the top of→ Read more
Jun 09
Spinning a World of Cotton
White cotton, colored cotton, organic cotton, algodon, cuyuscate, ixcaco, and kuyuchi – cotton in all its varieties and names has shaped history and culture. This small seed has been secreted in pockets and carried to new lands. It has sprouted revolutions. And with the spread of genetically modified seeds, organic→ Read more
Jul 10
Lao Weaving + Natural Dyes = Hand Woven Cloth
At the start of every trip, I’m reluctant to plop down money at the first hand woven textile which calls to me. But here I was on my first visit to Laos where “Everyone knows how to weave but not how to survive with their weaving” (as explained to me→ Read more
May 08
The People of the Loom, an Amuzgo Village in Guerrero, Mexico
Talk about a long-awaited day—we were about to see the finest backstrap-loom-woven brocade textiles produced in Mexico. We were also nearing the end of our fiber tour of coastal Oaxaca, traveling a tad into Guerrero and into the region where the Amuzgo people live, to the town of Xochistlahuaca, which→ Read more
Apr 24
The Color Purple–Purpura Shell Dyeing in Oaxaca
Gone are the days when hundreds of Mixtec men scrambled over the rocky Oaxacan shoreline north of Huatulco to extract the milky liquid from the purpura patula, a marine mollusk. But thankfully to the persistence of a few people, the tradition of shellfish dyeing has survived, for these large mollusks→ Read more
Feb 14
The Many Hands of Khadi Cloth
“Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.”-Mahatma Gandhi→ Read more
Oct 05
Call the Search Off: Guatemalan Organic Handspun Cotton Cloth Found
Handspun organic “cuyuscate” brown cotton→ Read more
