The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

“My only skill is weaving, and with the abrupt shutdown of power looms over the past fortnight, I am struggling financially,” says B. Srinivas, a 35-year-old power loom worker who lives in Indiramma ...

An indefinite strike by 200,000 power-loom operators in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has paralysed the transformation of yarn into cloth in one of ...

Much of today’s technology is powered by software that developers share freely. The leading Web server software (Apache), the leading smartphone operating system (Android), and most of the code of the ...

Chennai: Power loom units in Tamil Nadu may soon face mandatory upgrades as a study highlights noise hazards. Tamil Nadu's 5.68 lakh power loom units, including over 89,000 in Salem and 19,350 in ...

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