The contemporary art world has seen an uptick in artists working with both textiles and with Indigenous craft traditions, but the two strands weave together in the work of Nengi Omuku, whose paintings ...

CHENGDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In the township of Tangchang, Lai Shufang carefully inspects the new cloth shoes she has made and cuts the extra trimmings protruding from the shoe edges. Lai, 62, is a ...

Lee Valley Ireland is a family run business established by Denis Hurley in 1986. Loved the world over, this traditional Irish clothing brand never forgets its roots. Taking inspiration from the Irish ...

Scottish Rabbi Mendel Jacobs talks about his effort to create the first kosher Scottish-Jewish tartan, which is traditional Scottish cloth. Here's a headline we did not expect to read this week - ...

Traditional Chinese festivals are a good time to experience and share Chinese culture, including its rich and colorful clothing culture. During the last Lantern Festival, celebrated on Sunday, as well ...

HONG KONG－It had been a long and agonizing walk from home to the subway station for teenager Mandy Chan when she first put on hanfu in public. It was a set with a cream-colored shirt, a brown jacket ...

Lai Shufang (left), inheritor of the city-level intangible cultural heritage of cloth shoemaking in Tangchang township, Chengdu, Sichuan province, talks to a worker about it.[Photo/Xinhua] CHENGDU－In ...

Pride, joy and the power of tradition are coalescing to make young people across the globe take delight in traditional styles. The Great Male Renunciation is a term used to describe a phenomenon in ...

Despite passed more than 2,000 years, the blue dyed cotton cloths, masterpieces of the craftspeople in the Han Dynasty (BC206 - AD220) still lie quietly in a tomb in Xinjiang, Uygur Autonomous Region.