In Laos, the art of traditional hand weaving is passed down by women from generation to generation. Boutsaya Viengviseth is among those on a mission to ensure the art form continues to draw attention ...

UPDATE 2013: Carol Cassidy returns to Asia Society New York from 12:30-3:30 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013 to showcase an expansive array of her latest textiles including her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, ...

Miss World Laos Is Preserving Traditional Weaving Through Her Beauty With a Purpose Project ...

The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., showcases Carol Cassidy’s Lao Textiles, a project as inspiring to the heart as it is glorious to the touch. On view through Oct. 13. Disabled workers at Weaves ...

Carol Cassidy speaks what she calls the “women’s global language of weaving.” For 25 years, she has worked as a textile expert for the United Nations in Africa and Southeast Asia. In 1989, she and her ...

The fear of losing the centuries-old tradition of Lao brocade weaving pushed artisan Lo Thi Vien to rise against the odds. Today, the sound of looms echoes once more, day and night, across Na Sang 2 ...

UPDATE: Carol Cassidy returns to Asia Society New York from 12:30-3:30 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012 and Saturday, April 14, 2012 to showcase an expansive array of her latest textiles including her ...

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.