A Church in the City: Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie New York from 1900 to the Present
book Flad Mary
A Textile Guide to the Chiapas Highlands
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Morris Walter F Jr (Chip)
A Textile Travelers Guide to Guatemala
Designed to support the textile part of your travels (or just education) the book explores and explains the variety of textiles that make up the vibrant textile culture of Guatemala. Following the highways the techniques of villages throughout the Mayan highland areas are shown and compared in an effort to...
book and ebook
Chandler Deborah
A Textile Travelers Guide to Peru and Bolivia
An excellent resource for discovering artisans markets shops museums and festivals this guide presents convenient safe and accessible methods of travel when to go where to stay and where to eat. Expert advice helps travelers know what textile treasures they'll discover at each location how to distinguish quality textiles and...
book
A Turning Point: Viewing Navajo Weaving as Art. American Indian Art 36(2)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
A Weavers Guide to Swatching
book Gipson Liz
A Weavers Guide to Yarn
Stumped by what yarns to use for weaving? This book explores the many ways to measure yarn how to substitute one yarn for another select the perfect sett color hacks comprehensive fiber information yarn construction fundamentals decode yarn information and tips for buying yarn. Written with the rigid-heddle weaver in...
book
Gipson Liz
Acadian Brown Cotton in Spinoff Magazine
article Donnan Sharon Gordon
Adolescence in a Moroccan Town
Describes many aspects - social psychological and physical - of the lives of adolescent boys and girls in a mid-sized Moroccan town.
book
Davis Susan
Adventures in Modern Tapestry: Gloria Ross Kenneth Noland and Native American Weavers. American Indian Art 37(1)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Ajrakh Artist Sufiyan Khatri Natures Colorways: Conjuring the Chemistry and Culture of Natural Dyes
Ajrakh Artist Sufiyan Khatri
chapter in edited book
Wise Mary Anne
An exploration of prehistoric spinning technology: Spinning efficiency and technology transition
magazine Tiedemann Erica
Andean Folk Knitting: Traditions and Techniques from Peru & Bolivia
book LeCount Cynthia Gravelle
Andean Pebble Weave on Inkle Looms
book or pdf Waddington Laverne
Arizona State Museums Textiles and the Southwest – Northwest Continuum. American Indian Art 30(1)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Artisan enterprise cultural property and the global market. In S. Black A. de la Haye J. Entwistle A. Rocamora R.A....
Compares and contrasts two artisan groups (Kala Raksha Trust and MarketPlace Handwork of India) on human capabilities and outcomes.
chapter in edited book
Littrell Mary
Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market: Walking the Heart Path
...and June Nash editors. This is a series of essays several written by WARP members.
book
Simonelli Jeanne
Artisans and Cooperatives. Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy – Of Women Hope and Angels. Fair trade and artisan...
Of Women Hope and Angels. Fair trade and artisan production in a squatter settlement in Guatemala City
chapter in edited book
Rosenbaum Brenda
Artisans and fair trade: Crafting development
Book explores the impacts from a fair trade business model for An artisan group (MarketPlace Handwork of India) operating in a Mumbai slum.
book
Littrell Mary
Backstrap Weaving
This book grew out of my fascination with backstop weaving and the loom itself. It is an instructional book that leads through all steps in building your own loom and provides different chapters with graduated weaving projects.
book
Anderson Marilyn
Bead & Felted Tapestry Crochet
book Ventura Carol
Beginning Cotton Spinning on the Wheel
This 56-page book is for people who want to learn how to spin cotton or spinners who want to improve their skill and knowledge about cotton and cotton spinning. This spiral-bound book takes you step by step through each stage of learning to spin cotton. It also includes a little...
book and ebook
Ruane Joan
Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving. American Indian Art 40(3)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas
Summaries of recent archaeological textile research and current methods of object handling and analysis in the Americas plus nine in-depth case histories. An overview of current research on New World archaeological fabrics demonstrating that textile data provide a unique means of addressing questions of broad anthropological interest as well as...
book
Drooker Penelope B.
Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving
book Hedlund Ann Lane
Beyond the Stones of Machu Picchu: Folk Tales and Stories of Inca Lives
book VanBuskirk Elizabeth Conrad
Blanket Basics: Navajo Weaving of the Classic Late Classic and Early Transitional Periods. Hali (43)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat edited by Ann Lane Hedlund
chapter in edited book Hedlund Ann Lane
Block Weaves
102 minutes. Shows how to read and create block drafts and how to use them with specific weave structures. Includes a handbook with exercises resources and more.
Film and DVD
van der Hoogt Madelyn
Bow Loom Weaving
57 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. This is Marilyn's most popular class in a box! The Ulo Akha peoples of Northern Thailand use these beaded bands to decorate their elaborate traditional headdresses but the loom makes very nice bracelets as well. No previous weaving experience necessary. This is a...
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Braiding with Backbone; Kumihimo with Wire
1 hour 13 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. What a twist! Kumihimo is an ancient Japanese braiding technique normally used with silk strands. But in this class we use the wooden Marudai braiding stand to coax out this open-work helix - as if by magic - into a 3-D...
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Card Trick: The Magic of Tablet Weaving
65 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Weave with nothing but a deck of cards? Can it be true? Yes! Card Weaving (aka Tablet Weaving) is a very old technique first seen in the Iron Age and also flourishing in the Middle Ages. It is currently being re-discovered and...
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Caucasian Textiles 16th – 20th Century
book Hedlund Ann Lane
Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life
The Bunu Yoruba people of central Nigeria mark every critical juncture in an individual's life from birthing ceremonies to funeral celebrations with handwoven cloth. The author explains how and why this is so and discusses why handwoven cloth is still valued although it is rarely woven in Bunu villages today....
book
Renne Elisha
Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs. American Indian Art 28(3)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs. Textile Museum Journal 25
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Contemporary Navajo Weaving: Thoughts that Count. Special issue of Plateau 65(l)
magazine Hedlund Ann Lane
Continuous Strand Weaving Method Techniques and Projects for Triangle Square and Rectangle Frame Looms
book Brack-Kaiser Carol Leigh
Continuous Strand Weaving on Rectangle Frame Loom
A 30-minute introduction to using the continuous strand weaving method on rectangle frame looms of all sizes. Includes design and project examples for both small rectangles and large adjustable ones.
Film and DVD
Brack-Kaiser Carol Leigh
Coton jaune – Acadian Brown Cotton – A Cajun Love Story
Film and DVD Donnan Sharon Gordon
Coton jaune – Acadian Brown Cotton in Handeye Magazine
article Donnan Sharon Gordon
Crafts in The World Market: The Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans – That We May Serve Beneath...
That We May Serve Beneath Your Hands and Feet: Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas with Christine Eber
chapter in edited book
Rosenbaum Brenda
Crafts of Armenia
This book features fifty artists shown in their studios with several pieces of their work. Information is given about the development of each person and the unique approach of each to their craft. This publication was put together with funds to promote tourism. There are lovely photos of the different...
book
Alvic Philis
Crazy Lace: an artistic approach to creative lace knitting
Crazy Lace explores the use with and without pre-charted lace knitting designs in traditional shawl structures including instruction charts and inspirational photos.
book
Wood Myra
Crazyshot Companion- Charted Designs for Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom
book Wood Myra
Crazyshot- Creative Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom
Crazyshot - creative overshot weaving - introduces anyone who uses a rigid heddle loom to a whole world of creative weaving. Using just one heddle and one pick-up stick explore color design and texture taking your weaving to the next level.
book
Wood Myra
Creative Crafts of the World
Creative Crafts of the World is a practical guide for teaching folk art to groups of children young adults adults even yourself! From years of teaching real-life folk art classes these lesson plans are tried-and-true. Perfect for all levels of skill. Just add students mix and create! These are actual...
book
Romatka Marilyn
Creative Crochet Lace
Creative Crochet Lace is a template-based approach to creating wearable art using a freestyle approach to lace crochet. Templates general instructions and lots of inspirational photos are included.
book
Wood Myra
crochet patterns
Most of my articles are crochet patterns in magazines.
magazine
Ventura Carol
Cuando una mujer se levanta (Spanish translation of When a Woman Rises)
book Eber Christine
Culture and History: subregional Variation among the Maya
Mayas from Guatemala and Chiapas Mexico narrate strikingly similar stories that are part of their oral tradition. These similarities reflect the fact that Mayas from both areas share a common cultural tradition dating to pre-Hispanic times and a basic pattern of beliefs central to the Mesoamerican cultural complex. At the...
magazine
Rosenbaum Brenda
Current Trends in Navajo Weaving. Terra 26(5)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization - specifically the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna Nigeria - and its consequences for deceased workers' families. The book examines the establishment of textile mills in the industrial area and new ways...
book
Renne Elisha
Designing Among the Navajo: Ethnoaesthetics in Weaving in Textiles as Primary Sources: Proceedings of the First Symposium of the Textile...
chapter in edited book Hedlund Ann Lane
Doubleweave Basics
Step-by-step instructions for weaving a two-layer sampler on four shafts. Learn to weave separate layers double-width cloth tubes slits color-and-weave effects stitched cloth simple pique quilted cloth and top layer laces.
Film and DVD
Moore Jennifer
Doubleweave Pick-up
Learn how to weave any image you would like to create through pick-up on two layers of cloth. Detailed demonstrations teach you how to design and follow a graph accurately create the pick-up and weave each of the necessary steps.
Film and DVD
Moore Jennifer
Dragon Boat Decorations: Magic with Ribbon
50 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. These geometric gems are hand-crafted in China filled with insect-repelling herbs and hung up during the Dragonboat Festival in the hot 5th month of the lunar calendar. A simple technique that gives exquisite results!
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Early Navajo Artistry in Tapestry. International Tapestry Journal 3(2)
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
El Piteado – A Mexican Folk Art Tradition in Textile Society of America Proceedings – Appropriation Acculturation Transformation
proceedings Donnan Sharon Gordon
Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill and the American Crafts Movement in Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook vol.81 1997-1998 p 58-65.
chapter in edited book Flad Mary M
Embroidering with the Loom: Creative Combinations of Weaving and Stitchery
book Drooker Penelope B.
Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future
This book traces the converging paths of traditional khamak embroidery the 400 brave women who have found in it a way to build their lives and the tenuous state of their efforts as the fate of Kandahar hangs in the balance.
book
Hamidi Rangina
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol. 2 – Dress of Eastern Guatemala
chapter in edited book Rousso Kathryn
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol. 2 – Morrales in Guatemala
chapter in edited book Rousso Kathryn
Endangered Threads Videos
Under the umbrella of her non-profit Endangered Threads Kathleen Vitale produced nineteen documentaries and interviews with and about the Maya in Guatemala and Mexico all of which can now be seen on YouTube. Ranging from 2 - 73 minutes in length the quality is excellent.
Film and DVD
Vitale Kathleen Mossman
European Paper Stars (Papiersterne)
47 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Delightfully easy and deceptively complex these stars are popular in Europe especially at Christmas time to hang in windows with light coming through them. They are made of Drachenpapier; a special translucent paper fresh in from Germany. The class is geared for adults...
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Exploring Multishaft Design and Exploring Multishaft Design second edition
book Inouye Bonnie
Faces of Tradition: Weaving Elders of the Andes
The powerful visual expressions of Joe Coca's photographs introduce dozens of elder weavers and the landscapes that they occupy in the Cusco region of the Peruvian Andes. A revealing cultural study presents personal stories and deep insight into time-honored textile traditions.
book
Facing the Maze Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot Magazine
magazine Weiss Wendy
Fair trade and artisans. In Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennet (Eds.) The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Chapter introduces and includes the artisan sector in this multi-sector volume assessing the fair trade movement.
chapter in edited book
Littrell Mary
Fallkill Falls Tapestry
Video (about 6 minutes in length) directed by Melissa Gagliardi documenting the design and making by Mary Flad of a tapestry for installation in Fallkill Commons a supportive housing project in New York State's Hudson River Valley. Available on You Tube enter "Fallkill Falls Tapestry"
Film and DVD
Flad Mary
Faraway Places: Poems from the Sixties
book Flad Mary M
Fiber-safe extraction of red mordant dyes
Description of an extraction and analysis method for textile dyes that are fixed with mordants. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 34:195-206
magazine
Tiedemann Erica
Fibers in the Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences
The article begins with an overview of the various materials that humans have used for textile fibers. It includes sections about identifying and analyzing fibrous materials and about the conditions that preserve fibers in the archaeological record.
chapter in edited book
Tiedemann Erica
Finishes in the Ethnic Tradition
Fringe treatments decorative seams and embellishments from global textiles are presented with great illustrations that are easy to follow.
book
Searle Karen
Fire and Clay the Art of Oaxacan Pottery
book Mindling Eric
Fleeting Identities: Perishable Material Culture in Archaeological Research ed.
Draws from current worldwide archaeological research to highlight the importance to peoples' lives of perishable materials that rarely survive in the archaeological record but which represent up to 90% of all material culture in some regions from wooden buildings containers and tools to animal-skin blankets and bags to fiber clothing...
book
Drooker Penelope B.
Foreword in The Image Weavers: Contemporary Navajo Pictorial Textiles by Susan Brown McGreevy
chapter in edited book Hedlund Ann Lane
Forgotten City: My Encounter With Asia A Peace Corps Memoir
book Flad Mary M
From Collage to Tapestry: Louise Nevelson Gloria Ross & The Dovecot Studios of Edinburgh. The 14th Annual Sculpture Objects &...
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane
Give-and-Take: Navajo Grandmothers and the Role of Craftswomen in American Indian Grandmothers: Traditions and Transitions edited by Marjorie Schweitzer
chapter in edited book Hedlund Ann Lane
Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry
book Hedlund Ann Lane
Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe
Study of folk goddesses portrayed on embroideries and weavings in Russia Ukraine and Eastern European countries of Romania Hungary Czechoslovakia and Poland.
book
Kelly Mary B
Goddess Embroideries of the Balkan Lands and Greek Islands
Folk tales of the of the Balkans and Greek islands with a focus on symbols rituals and the meaning of local goddesses on embroidery.
book
Kelly Mary B
Goddess Embroideries of the Northlands
A textile survey of female deities preserved by women on textiles from the Neolithic to the 20th century on textiles from Siberia to the Atlantic Ocean. Symbolic interpretation on embroidery and weaving is passed down in northern Russia the Baltics and Scandinavian countries by women in folk ritual.
book
Kelly Mary B
Goddess Women Cloth
World-wide symbols of female deities preserved by women on textiles in Alaska North and South America China and Japan central and south east Asia.
book
Kelly Mary B
Granddaughters of Corn
With photographs and text this book deals with the brutal 1980s civil war and especially its effects on women. In 1985 Anderson and Garlock produced a widely traveled photography and text exhibit that was later turned into this book. Annotated text from many sources gives details and an afterward by...
book
Anderson Marilyn
Guardians of the Arts / Guardianes de las Artes
This book of 43 prints developed over more than 10 years and is the result of the author's love of traditional Mayan culture and her love of printmaking. Not all the arts and crafts shown will be familiar to readers which provided impetus to the artist to make them more...
book
Anderson Marilyn
Guatemalan Story Cloths: Women Finding Their Voices Piecework Magazine Fall 2021
Guatemalan Story Cloths: Women Finding Their Voices
magazine
Wise Mary Anne
Guatemalan Textiles Today
The text and photos present the different looms and weaving techniques from many parts of Guatemala. It shows the many designs and patterns current at that time when traditional dress was worn in approximately 150 communities.
book
Anderson Marilyn
Guatemalan Textiles: A Weavers View
54 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Enter the land of the wonders that come off the back-strap loom. Guatemala is a country long recognized by the weaving world as one of the must-see places for its intricate skill its astounding variety as well as its riotous colors. This...
Film and DVD
Romatka Marilyn
Guatemalan Woven Wealth – Preserving a Rich Textile Tradition
The book discusses the Mayan women's wardrobe which reflects the cultural heritage of generations of weavers. Garments being made and worn currently are rooted in long tradition. There is reference to identifying the garments of various regions as well as advice about collecting. The pieces shown were collected for a...
book
Chandler Deborah
Guatemalan-Style Bags and How to Make a Net Bag
This publication highlights Guatemalan bag techniques including loom-woven (treadle fixed-vertical vertical frame and horizontal looms) knit and crocheted linked (single and two element) and looped or knotless netted (simple hourglass cross-knit and single-interconnected). Step by step instructions on how to make a traditional knotless-netted Guatemalan net bag including strap techniques...
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Rousso Kathryn
Gujarati Warp Ikat Resist Method: A Practitioners Record and Translation into Cloth
magazine Weiss Wendy
Hammock Making Techniques
Based on research with ethnographic examples this book describes and illustrates fabric structures finishing techniques and hanging devices used to produce traditionally constructed hammocks. Basics for how to make a hammock using weaving twining linking looping knotting and/or sprang in a variety of shapes/constructions. Out of print but author can...
book
Drooker Penelope B.
Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Project ed.
Starting in 1997 the Spin-Off editorial team struck out to enlighten spinners about rare-breed wools and in 2000 published the book Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools. This was the guidebook to go with a juried exhibit of items made from rare wools. It includes basic information on rare breeds of...
book or pdf
Robson Deborah
Handwoven Home
book Gipson Liz
Heddlecraft
Heddlecraft is a digital magazine for handweavers who love to weave and want to know more.
online magazine
Spady Robyn
Hot Trends in Native Southwestern Weaving. Sculpture Objects & Functional Art
article in journal Hedlund Ann Lane