The village has also become a popular tourist destination, drawing visitors from the Guangdong ... As a child, he watched his mother and grandmother weave beautiful brocades on the loom.

An elderly villager writes lyrics down on the back of his hand during a choir performance in Xiaohu village in 2022.[Photo provided to China Daily] ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

As he dreams up characters and plot lines, he delves into memories of his late mother for a thread to weave the story. "Movies show who you are," Miyazaki says, "no matter how hard you try to hide ...

To develop their nascent industry, Nigerian studios are drawing on their native traditions and "natural creativity," said Hugo Obi, the Lagos-based founder of another maker, Maliyo Games.