Hand weaving is an ancestral tradition that has developed its own techniques for efficiency and quality. Within the given work environment, often at home or in some cases at community centers, textile work is manual and uses rudimentary technology that has not changed for many centuries. Given that work was domestic and part-time labor, worker health was not a major consideration for employers and agencies. With an aging weaver population and as production increases, when more labor hours are put into weaving, good health practices for hours-at-work, environmental settings, air, lighting, particulate control must now be acknowledged.