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

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Silk weaving today. Many women in Laos are uneducated and rely on their skills in manual textile labour to support their families. Ms Chanthavong said one of Mulberries' main goals was to develop ...

In 2016, Maybank established its first silk weaving centre in Takeo province. Now operating in its eighth year, the Takeo centre has produced 356 graduates who are now earning an average monthly ...

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

"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 is ...

"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.

Albania's Women Silk Makers Weave Big Dreams For Ancient Trade. Date. 2025-06-14 07:08:39. ... 18, hopes one day to see the silk she weaves on the runways of big luxury fashion brands. "It is a ...

Often the silk was exported and it was particularly prized by the Italian and French nobility. But Albania's postwar communist regime centralised it all to a single factory for processing and weaving ...

Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively recently.And few were more chic than the women of Zadrima who wore their ...