Abdul Sattar stands in a dimly lit aisle surrounded by dozens of electric-powered looms that make a rhythmic din several ...

Guertin said weaving is in her blood. “When I was 9, my grandmother gave me a 4-shaft table loom and told me that my great-grandmother in Sweden was a weaver, and she said I was to be a weaver.

When he arrived in Bhiwandi as a 15-year-old boy, workshops weaving cloth on the looms were thriving, providing ready jobs for many unskilled workers from far-flung villages in north India. The wages ...