Textiles Crafts

Textiles Crafts

This category lists sites offering information, resources, instruction and exhibits relating to fabric, yarn, and to textile crafts including spinning, weaving, dyeing, felting, braiding, and multi-media textile arts.

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Fiberarts - The Magazine of Textiles - Journal of modern textile art. Calendar, highlights, and subscription FAQ.
The Textile Society - For textile art, design and history in the United Kingdom. Information on bursaries, events calendar.
The Art Of Batik Painting - Mrs. Leong, batik teacher in Singapore, provides illustrated instructions for batik and photos of students' work.
Mission Mill Museum - Historic woolen mill in Oregon. Includes calendar of events and classes, information on outreach to schools and facilities for rent.
Spinners' and Weavers' Housecleaning Pages - A clearing house for individuals to list equipment for sale or wanted ads.
Ron's Fiber Home - Offers links of resources for fiber artists.
TLD Design Center and Gallery - Art gallery in Westmont, Illinois offering classes in weaving, spinning and other arts and crafts.
Textile Center of Minnesota - A coalition of the textile community, dedicated to promoting and preserving textile excellence. St. Paul.
Descendants of the Incas - By the Center For Traditional Textiles of Cusco, Peru, promoting Inca weaving traditions. Contains images and stories, and descriptions of spinning, dyeing and weaving processes used.
Ewa Soszko: Antique Textile Conservation - Textiles from different epochs, and methods of textile conservation and restoration. Photos of the artist's work in ecclesiastical textiles and iconographic paintings.
Jamaica Fiber Festival - Provides vendor applications, activities, contests, and other events for the annual festival. Includes archive of previous year's event. Jamaica, Vermont.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution - The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
Atelier Marin - Specializes in luxurious natural fibers and hand dyed yarns. Offers expert advise, a full class schedule and a comprehensive selection of books and accessories for knitting and crochet.
Fresno FiberArts Guild - Preserving the arts of traditional needlework and other fiber forms. Includes program schedule, list of interest groups, photos and membership information.
Dalton Textile Tours - Information on up and coming tours to China to discover the secrets of Chinese embroidery. Pictures and information on previous tours is provided.
Dana's Textile Travels - Dana McCown shares pictures and notes from her travels to see traditional textiles around the world. Also "guest traveller" submissions.
Birgitte Krag Hansen - Information about feltmaking, felt courses and exhibitions. Includes picture gallery.
Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins - Focus on classes and workshops. List of yarns offered.
Fiber Guild of Greater Kansas City - Supports the local fiber arts community around Overland Park, Kansas. Gallery and program information.
Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival - British Columbia, Canada. List and status of workshops, registration, events, news.
Women in Textile Art - International group specializing in promoting contemporary textile art by vanguard artists. Application for and information on sponsored exhibit.
Arts of Africa - Artisans producing traditional and contemporary artifacts and clothing. Gallery images, list of artisans, exhibits, articles on textiles.
Fiberarts.org - Listing of guild contacts, calendar of events and articles.
John C. Campbell Folk School - Teaching traditional crafts, music and dance in the mountains of North Carolina.
Australian Textile Arts and Surface Design Association - A not for profit organisation fostering ideas between fibre artists using pigments, dyes, manipulative techniques and surface decoration. Includes meeting information, workshops and member gallery.
FiberLink - Information and resources for knitters, spinsters, weavers, and other fiber artists.
Michigan Fiber Festival - Show and workshop schedule, list of vendors, registration forms.
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Sprang - The history, origins, construction and use of thread twisting.
Textile Conservation Services - Service for care, restoration, and presentation of antique and contemporary textile arts.
Fiber Arts Connection of Southern California - Internet-based group to provide support for professional fiberartists. Membership, gallery and events.
Spinners', Weavers' & Knitters' Housecleaning Pages - Provides a forum and free marketplace.
Computer Textile Design Group (CTDG) - International organization of textile crafts artists.
Interweave Press - Producer of weaving and other fiber arts publications. Includes book descriptions, magazine contents, subscription information and special event registration.
World of Threads Festival - A biannual festival highlighting international textile art and craft. Call for submissions, gallery exhibitions in Oakville Ontario Canada. Featuring contemporary art, quilting, weaving, sewing, paper making, textiles, sculpture.
Textile Repair Studio - Repair, restoration and appraisal. List of services, contact information.
Online Spinning and Weaving Guild - Web-based guild for anyone interested in the textile arts. Features user-contributed photo gallery, textile discussion area, real-time chat, and events calendar.
Alexandria Textiles - Resource center for the fiber arts community specializing in spinning, weaving and dyeing.
Mexican Textiles - Dedicated to the presentation of indigenous costume, the people, their location and their traditions.
Phiala's String Page - Information on tablet weaving and non-woven textiles including naalbinding, sprang and braiding. Offers historical information, especially medieval, with techniques included.
Rug Hooking Online - Features how-to articles and patterns, a gallery of full-color rugs, and links to related sites.
Fibre Festival - Event on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Information on workshops, farm, craft and mill tours, vendor displays, and fashion show.
Wool rainbow - Several Russian artists display works in knitting, lacemaking and sprang.
All Fiber Arts - Informational site for weaving, spinning and other fiber arts. Articles, forum.
Paula's Wearable Art - Includes photos of woven, knitted and beaded accessories, hand spun yarn and kits.
Maine Fiberarts - Promoting the enjoyment and quality of Maine fiber work. Includes background, membership and contact information.
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts (TAFTA) - Providing publications, conferences and workshops for textile craftspeople. Contains conference and magazine subscription information, editor background, news and events.
Silk Painters Guild for Fine Artists - Promoting fine art silk painting. Members gallery, event calendar, membership requirements, and articles.
Rabbit Goody's Thistle Hill Weavers - Mill producing reproduction textiles. Includes information about Textile History Forum, exhibits, and photos of examples of work.
Fiber Arts - Suite 101 - Articles about fiber arts.
Puchka Peru Cultural Tours - Textiles and folk art tours for those interested in Peruvian art and craft.
TextileLinks - A compilation of textile-related words, phrases and links to other sites, by Rosemary Brock.
HobbyDo: Screen Printing - Hobby site section including detailed step-by-step instructions for screen printing.
The Fabric Museum - Virtual museum presenting exhibits on fabric art, design and history.

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