Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively ...

She wanted to help desperately poor and displaced rural women generate an income and support their families through the traditional art of silk weaving. The cooperative, founded in 1976 ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Silk is an essence of Asia ... Today, she employs roughly 50 people, mostly Laotian women who have learned to design and weave. Many are now earning professional incomes derived from the ...

Each day, women from across the state gather at Bambolim and sit together to weave silk threads into beautiful pieces of jewellery ranging from bangles, earrings and anklets, to waistbands ...

"In the past, women here dressed in silk -- it was one of their joys," she added. Like other women in the long impoverished region, they are also weaving dreams of a better life. "Here, everything ...