Movies: Weaving

The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of li...

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab....

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work....

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives are interwoven through the production of the silk and the beauty it creates. However, as the technolog...

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry....

Uses high magnification photography to demonstrate the processes of converting raw fibers into woven cloth....

Documentary about weaving and braiding...