If there is any tradition in the world that is dying from the sands of time, it stands tall in clay silk weaving art. For nearly 50 years, the only man left in the world practicing this non-heritage ...

AMMAN — Scholars attempted to reconstruct technology of loom weight bead making and they studied the manufacturing technique from the Iron Age. These beads were made of clay and the mudstone ...

Via Greece, Anatolia and Cyprus it came to the Levant, where loom weights usually made of clay. Their weight and shape vary over the ages. in the Bronze Ages the loom weights conical, dome or cigar ...