Details of textile instruments are visible in the Achilles mosaic in the palace of Lycomedes in the villa of La Olmeda. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons A recent study published in the ...

AMMAN — Tell Abu Kharaz, a region called known as Gilead in the ancient period, is situated in the northern Jordan Valley. The West Bank, Galilee and the Jordan Valley can be seen from the region site ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, a discovery that pushes ...

Archeologists in western Turkey have discovered textile tools nearly twice as old as Egypt’s Great Pyramids. Bone needles and round stones used for spinning thread dating back some 8,600 years were ...

[Irene Posch] has done some incredible work with knitted, crocheted, and fabric circuits — check out the crocheted ALUs and embroidered computer for starters. Now, it seems [Irene] is building up a ...