Published in cooperation with Na Bolom Museum and Study Center in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, this guide visits 20 villages in the Chiapas Highlands to showcase their stunning handwoven cloth while also providing...

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...

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...

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Swatching offers an easy way to sketch your ideas risk-free and unleash your creativity in new and wonderful ways. Learn the philosophy behind swatching - using a frame loom to sample for...

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...

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Describes many aspects - social, psychological and physical - of the lives of adolescent boys and girls in a mid-sized Moroccan town.

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An experimental archaeology study that compared hand production rates for textile yarns. Archaeometry, 48: 293-307

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This manual is aimed at band weavers who are interested in either taking their first steps in pick-up patterning or adding another versatile patterning structure to their repertoire. Dozens of step-by-step photos,...

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Compares and contrasts two artisan groups (Kala Raksha Trust and MarketPlace Handwork of India) on human capabilities and outcomes.

This is a series of essays, several written by WARP members.

Of Women, Hope and Angels. Fair trade and artisan production in a squatter settlement in Guatemala City

Book explores the impacts, from a fair trade business model, for An artisan group (MarketPlace Handwork of India) operating in a Mumbai slum.

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...

Includes the basics of tapestry crochet, special graph papers, and instructions for 7 beaded, 6 felted, and 3 bead felted projects. https://www.tapestrycrochet.com/#BFTC

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...

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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,...

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With paintings by Angel L. Callañaupa Álvarez, the vivid paintings and stories provide a rare glimpse into Inca peoples' creative work, especially the famous Andean practice of weaving and other textile arts.

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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This weaving method is a magical, unique way of weaving in which the loom dresses itself as the weaving progresses.  There is no limit to the types of textiles created using this...

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. http://www.hillcreekfiberstudio.com/

This documentary film explores the history of natural brown cotton in southwest Louisiana and examines its origins and use among the people of Acadiana. Rich in oral history, the film tells the...

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That We May Serve Beneath Your Hands and Feet: Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas, with Christine Eber

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...

Crazy Lace explores the use with and without pre-charted lace knitting designs in traditional shawl structures including instruction, charts and inspirational photos. https://www.myrawood.com

Crazyshot Companioncontains over 100 charted designs, along with complete instructions for incorporating them into your Crazyshot projects. You'll also find ways to combine or modify charts, to add color, or to translate...

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,...

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...

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. https://www.myrawood.com

Most of my articles are crochet patterns in magazines. https://www.carolventura.com/pubs.html

This edition is available for free for Mayas in Chiapas - Dos mujeres zapatistas, atadas por expectativas culturales, luchan por expresar la verdad de sus vidas en los altos de Chiapas. Magdalena...

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...

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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...

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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. 2...

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...

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...

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For handweavers interested in incorporating embroidery into their work, including weaving specially designed backgrounds for embroidery, weaving portions of embroidery stitches, and using embroidery to add touches difficult or impossible to weave....

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...

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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...

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...

Exploring Multishaft Design is a workshop in a book. Create and understand new drafts by following step-by-step exercises with examples using 8 shafts, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 24 shafts. It does...

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...

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Chapter introduces and includes the artisan sector in this multi-sector volume assessing the fair trade movement.

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...

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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

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...