Besides its decorative handicraft antiques and other conventional uses, the importance of bamboo crop has been increased due to its use in textiles as a vegetable fibre. The absorbent nature of bamboo fibre has lead to its various applications in textiles. The focus of present research is to optimize the quality of bamboo/cotton blends. Therefore, present study investigates the influence of bam...

Three-dimensional (3D) technology has attracted users’ attention because it creates objects that can interact with a given product in system. Nowadays, Thailand’s government encourages sustainability projects through advertising, trade shows and information systems for small rural entrepreneurship. However, the government’s do not include virtual products 3D display. The objective of this study...

Lilli Zickerman (1858–1949) was an entrepreneur who took part in organising the Swedish handicraft associations late 19th century. She also a pioneer archives and active feminine sphere of textile handicraft. From 1914–1931 she conducted huge inventory called Folk Textile Art that consists more than 24,000 photographs descriptions vernacular textiles manuscripts for planned series books films. ...

Since the opening of Chinese economic, a great amount of Taiwanese merchants enter Mainland China for investment. The annual production of bamboo flutes in China is over 4 millions to provide domestic and international consumers. Owing to the great amount of demand, folk instrument industry is one of the attractive investment items. In order to increase the product manufacturing process and pro...

This paper addresses the reliability analysis for a real-world apparel manufacturing system by using fuzzy mathematics. The studied apparel manufacturing system is a precise handicraft profession which involves a great amount of labor-intensive processes. To consider human performance, the apparel manufacturing system is constructed as a fuzzy multistate network, termed apparel manufacturing ne...

This paper examines whether the Internet can be used to improve peasant artisan incomes by connecting producers directly with global markets. The paper surveys previous research which suggests that Business to Business artisan portals within most Developing Economies have failed to deliver expected benefits. This paper identifies some of the significant obstacles to successful implementation an...

In 1973, the artist Harmony Hammond made a series of artworks entitled Floorpieces. Based on traditional rag-rug techniques, these braided fabric pieces were selectively painted and then placed, like rugs, directly on the ground. The making of the Floorpieces coincided with Hammond coming out, and their spiraling, braided form is suggestive of both lesbian erotics and traditions of women’s hand...