Inside the huts, huge wooden looms, strung with plain yarn like harps, reach from the bottom of the pits to the clay-tiled roofs.

Here Taller La Mexicana is one of the last workshops in the country to produce rebozos the traditional way, on creaking, foot-powered wooden looms.

Pick up an all-cotton, vegetable-dyed tapestry at this women's collective, which makes all manner of woven goods on big wooden looms, some dating from the Spanish colonial era.

Shuttles flew across broad wooden looms, carrying homespun weft over warped strands, snicking and clicking to a rhythm matched by the great apes' rumbling song.

The company uses wooden looms to make 18th century style brochés (a type of brocade) and velours ciselé, figured velvets.

Another business, Atelier Damjl, makes silk and cashmere fabrics on 18th-century wooden looms for Loro Piana and other top Italian fashion houses.

The school's six wooden looms - nearly seven feet tall and almost as wide - are kept in a renovated barn on a former dairy farm in this northern Vermont town.

While his school draws people who appreciate the old-style wooden looms, the waulkings are likely to draw nonweavers.

In Oaxaca, weavers produce brightly colored tablecloths and bedspreads on broad wooden looms.

What is interesting is that the delicate and soft brocade came out from wooden looms as big as 5.6-meters long, 4-meters high and 1.4-meters wide.