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 ...

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 ...

“Each piece of clay weighed about 350 grammes and this was the average weight of the Iron Age loom weights,” Boertien explained, adding that different forms of beads were produced. The loom weights ...