Secrets of Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting in the Peruvian Highlands
In the pages of this book, the young weavers will be your teachers. They chose to share what they have learned with you out of the hope that it will help you...
Book Silk Weavers of Hill Tribe Laos: Textiles, Tradition, and Well-Being
What began as a couple's backpacking adventure with their young sons in Southeast Asia transformed into a thriving fair-trade business. Silk Weavers of Hill Tribe Laos takes the reader on a rare...
Book Social responsibility in the global market: Fair trade of cultural products
Book was the first to introduce and assess the impacts of a fair trade model for conducting business with artisan-related enterprises.
Book Socks: A Spin-Off Special Publication for Spinners and Knitters, ed.
Instructions for 20 different handspun, handknitted socks, including hiking socks, knee socks, lace socks, and much more, as well as notes on spinning, choosing equivalent commercial yarns, and techniques. (Note: This book...
Book Spider Woman’s Children – Navajo Weavers Today
Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills Trading Post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight into where...
Book Spin to Weave
Spinning can add another dimension of creativity to handwoven fabrics. Fiber choices, preparation, yarn finishing and fabric finishing are all discussed. The book is highlighted with projects created from handspun yarns, both...
Book Swept Under the Rug: A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving
Swept utilizes copious information contained in the correspondence and business records of the Lorenzo Hubbell family, Ganado, AZ (~ 1860s-1960s). Lorenzo Hubbell Sr. is considered the czar of Navajo trade and the...
Book Tapestry Crochet
Includes the basics of tapestry crochet, the history, tapestry crochet design, special graph papers, and instructions for 10 projects. The four rounds and four spiral projects are now sold for $10 as...
Book Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria
The authors of this edited volume examine handwoven and manufactured textiles, aesthetic preferences as well as textile production, and trade in northern Nigeria. Available from University of Michigan Press website - $28.50...
Book Textile Fiestas of Mexico – A Traveler’s Guide to Celebrations, Markets, and Smart Shopping
This book is an excellent resource guide for select off-the-beaten-path locations and events that offer all the color, joy, and energy of Mexican folklife. Geared to independent-minded travelers, it presents the safest...
Book Textile Traditions of Chinchero: A Living Heritage
Published in cooperation with the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, this book details all aspects of textile traditions of the weavers of Chinchero, Peru, including the role of special textiles in...
Book The Art and Science of Natural Dyes
During the last 12 years my work has been focused on a deep-dive research of natural dye processes and applications that are practical and safe for the contemporary dyer. My collaborator, Joy...
Book The Art of Tapestry Weaving: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Techniques for Making Images with Yarn
An in-depth guide to every aspect of the process, from developing a color palette to selecting yarn, warping the loom, and weaving the image. Weavers can choose from inexpensive tabletop and hand-held...
Book The Best of Weaver’s series
These books are each a collection of the articles that appeared in Weaver's magazine that cover the topics indicated in the titles. Each book comprises a comprehensive study available nowhere else, including...
Book The Complete Book of Drafting
The Complete Book of Drafting covers all the basic weave structures and how to draft and design them. Part I covers twills and color-and-weave effects, Part II covers overshot. Part III all...
Book The Field Guide to Fleece: 100 Sheep Breeds and How to Use Their Fiber
This is a pocket guide to one hundred sheep breeds and their fiber. Profiles include photos of the animals and quick information about their origins and conservation status, as well as summary...
Book The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook: More than 200 Fibers from Animal to Spun Yarn
Don't drop this one on your foot. It's 4 pounds of information on fiber animals - everything we could get our hands on (i.e., available at the time to English-speaking fiber folk)....
Book The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas. Mexico: Pass Well Over the Earth
In her life story Flor de Margarita ("Antonia") relates her experiences learning to weave, teaching her daughters to weave, and organizing women weavers in her community into cooperatives. In one chapter Flor...
Book The Practical Spinner’s Guide to Spinning Silk
An overview of what silk preparations are available to the handspinner, how to spin and finish yarns made from silk, and how to use them in a variety of projects shown, made...
Book The Speck Book, an 18th Century Weaving Manuscript by Johann Ludwig Speck, volumes one and two
In 1994 I self-published a two volume booklet on Johann Ludwig Speck. There were only about 200 copies printed as they were printed by hand on an offset press and collated and...
Book The Weaver’s Companion
This compact, sturdy, spiral-bound volume helps weaver's keep track of the details. It's all here: sett and sleying charts, formulas for calculating warp and weft, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing...
Book The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave
Doubleweave is the art of weaving two layers of cloth at the same time, one above the other on the loom, creating beautiful cloth that is reversible yet unique on each side.
Book The Window in the Wall
(Youth novel) A fictionalized account of the biblical fall of Jericho around 1400 B.C. from the viewpoint of young Talia who lives inside the formidable walls. Her father is a flax farmer,...
Book Threads Around the World – From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe
Handmade textiles are personal, no matter where in the world they're created, and these photos and explanations of 25 diverse world cultures' techniques vividly share the details. Take a voyage through the...
Book Veiling in Africa
The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a...
Book Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria
This book tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems...
Book Weavers of the Southern Highlands
This is the history of weaving centers in the Appalachian Mountains in the early part of the 20th century. The centers enabled women to earn money in a largely subsistence economy. Individual...
Book Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands: Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories
Available in digital format. Published in cooperation with the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, this book explores the variety of textiles in the Peruvian highlands, including the symbols and meaning of...
Book Weaving Innovations from the Bateman Collection
This full-color look at the patterns that Dr. William Bateman developed and studied over 50 years ago will help intermediate to advanced-level weavers think more innovatively about their craft. With hundreds of...
Book Weaving Lives: Traditional Textiles of Cusco – Preserving the Textile Tradition/Tejiendo la Vida: Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco – Preservando la...
This is a small bilingual book that was actually a catalog of an exhibition "Weaving Lives". For this exhibition we focused on the different stages of a weaver's life in the communities...
Book Weaving Made Easy
This book was written for those who know nothing about weaving or the rigid-heddle loom, but they are eager and ready to learn! The rigid-heddle loom is widely recognized as the gateway...
Book Well May They Be Made; Navajo Textiles from the Coleman Cooper Collection
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Book When a Woman Rises
Two Zapatista women, bound by cultural expectations, struggle to express the truth of their lives in the highlands of Chiapas. Magdalena summons the soul of her friend, Lucia, who migrated https://www.christineeber.com https://weaving-for-justice.org
Book Why the Navajo Blanket Became a Rug: Excavating the Lost Heritage of Globalization
Drawing on evidence contained in six disparate archives, my second book substantiates how as pastoralists, Navajo were affected by free trade during the 1890s, the decade in which the wearing blanket was...
Book With Our Heads Bowed – The Dynamics of Gender in a Maya Community
From the back cover comment by June Nash: Brenda Rosenbaum explores the ambiguous link between ideology and social role performance in great depth. She is able to demonstrate how women have been...
Book Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives
Women Artisans of Morocco tells the stories of twenty-five women who practice their textile traditions with an inspiring energy, pride and fortitude. They weave, embroider, needle weave intricate buttons, and tailor and...
Book Woven Shibori
This is the book that documents and "gives away" the process I developed of woven resists: a true marriage of weaving and dyeing. It's a book for weavers, but it has actually...
Book Woven to Wear: 17 Thoughtful Designs with Simple Shapes
More than just patterns - discover 17 designs and plenty of ideas for unique fabric and garments you'll want to wear again and again. Marilyn Murphy offers guidance for weaving scarves, wraps,...
Book Woven Treasures
A book for beginning weavers, using a rigid heddle loom and traditional rug techniques from around the world to make simple projects. From plain weave to soumak, twining, knotted pile, and tablet...
Book Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honour of Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba
Yoruba Religious Textiles is a collection of ten studies of the significance of cloth in religious worship among the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The authors of these chapters examine the various ways...
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