Finishes in the Ethnic Tradition Fringe treatments, decorative seams and embellishments from global textiles are presented, with great illustrations that are easy to follow.
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Fire and Clay, the Art of Oaxacan Pottery This book is an homage to the wisdom of the ancestral indigenous potters throughout the wildly diverse state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a pioneering work, for most of the 70 villages...
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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...
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Foreword, in The Image Weavers: Contemporary Navajo Pictorial Textiles, by Susan Brown McGreevy Description coming soon.
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From Collage to Tapestry: Louise Nevelson, Gloria Ross & The Dovecot Studios of Edinburgh. The 14th Annual Sculpture Objects &... Description coming soon.
Article 
Give-and-Take: Navajo Grandmothers and the Role of Craftswomen, in American Indian Grandmothers: Traditions and Transitions, edited by Marjorie Schweitzer Description coming soon.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Guatemalan Story Cloths: Women Finding Their Voices, Piecework Magazine, Fall 2021 Guatemalan Story Cloths: Women Finding Their Voices
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gujarati Warp Ikat Resist Method: A Practitioner’s Record and Translation into Cloth Description coming soon.
Magazine 
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...
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Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Project 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...
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Handwoven Home Home is where your loom is! Explore the know-how it takes to weave for your home, including yarn selection, tips and techniques, and tons of finishing and project inspiration. Included are over...
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Heddlecraft Heddlecraft is a digital magazine for handweavers who love to weave and want to know more. http://www.heddlecraft.com/
Online magazine 
Hot Trends in Native Southwestern Weaving. Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Description coming soon.
Article 
How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the...
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Human Ecology. Regular bi-monthly column for Hudson Valley regional journal Up River Down River Description coming soon.
Article 
Ibolya Hegyi, in Woven Times: Ibolya Hegyi (1953-2016), festschrift edited by Ildikó AlapÃÂtvány Dobrányi Description coming soon.
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In Pursuit of Style: Kate Kent and Navajo Aesthetics. Museum Anthropology 13(2-3) Description coming soon.
Article 
In Search of Wild Silk : Exploring a Village Industry in the Jungles of India Silk! just the word invokes intrigue and fantasies of lavish mounds of rich hued fabrics. The journey of metamorphosis from caterpillar to silken luxury is miraculous. Textile artist Karen Selk delves into...
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Inkle Loom Weaving – an Introduction 2 hour 16 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Woven cloth is ubiquitous in today’s world. We often take it for granted, unfortunately. Like learning the basics of playing the piano –...
DVD or streaming 
Interlacements: Threads & Lives 120 minute full length documentary film by Marilyn and Rainer Romatka. We are taking a unique view of hand-weaving in the movie, focusing on relationship. This is a documentary film that tells...
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Interview – Ann Lane Hedlund & Nancy Princenthal, in Agnes Martin/Navajo Blankets Description coming soon.
Chapter in book 
Introduction – Consultations, Collaborations, and Curation by Navajo Weavers: A Celebration and History, in Weavers, Collectors, and Changing Markets: The... Description coming soon.
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Introduction to Temari: Japanese Thread Balls 1 hour 5 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Temari balls are exquisitely wound and embroidered gems that are given in Japan as a very special gift to a loved one on...
DVD or streaming 
It’s in the Bag: Transformation in Guatemala. Containing Tradition, Embracing Change. Weaving Together Plant Materials in Northern Latin America. Description coming soon.
Digital 
Joe Ben Wheat, in Why Museums Collect: Papers in Honor of Joe Ben Wheat, edited by M. S. and D.... Description coming soon.
Chapter in book 
Journeys: The Life and Work of Jackie Abrams A wonderful book about Jackie's artwork, teaching, and social justice work. https://www.blurb.com/b/11065703-journeys
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Kantha Reimagined: From Private to Public – 20 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YClwyCh05Q
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Kantha: Forms and Transformations The kantha or, as it is increasingly referred to as the nakshi kantha, is an important aspect of Bengali women's domestic arts and crafts. Kanthas are made in most parts of Bangladesh...
Online magazine 
Knit in New Directions Freeing knitters with all levels of experience to become involved in the creative process and still make a garment that is knit-to-fit, this template-based approach is not math-dependent and works for people...
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Knitting Art: 150 innovative Works by 18 Contemporary Artists Now available as an e-book, it consists of interviews with 18 US and Canadian artists who use knitting as their primary medium of expression. As some knitters create mittens and sweaters, others...
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La Gamarra Focusing on the garment district in Lima, Peru, the book is all photos, 113 pages, of the micro-factories, displays, vendors, fashions, and manikins.
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Latin American Brocades Available online at the University of Arizona's weaving archive: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html. This guide to weaving supplementary weft techniques provides instructions for both pickup and loom-controlled weaves found in primarily in Guatemalan textiles. https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
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Learning to Weave A study guide to learn four shaft weaving starting from zero. All of the basics are covered: the tools of weaving, warping the loom, weaving, reading and designing drafts, understanding a dozen...
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Lebanon Has History of Beauty and Sadness. Poughkeepsie Journal, August 6, 2006 Description coming soon.
Article 
Living Maya "This beautifully illustrated book‚ [is] both an ethnographic study and an homage to a culture." With photography by Jeffrey Jay Foxx
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Maguey Journey: Discovering Textiles in Guatemala Chapters focus on maguey fibers in Guatemala and include history, botanical information, harvesting, fiber extraction, spinning, dyeing and patterns, and loom-woven (treadle, fixed-vertical, vertical, back-strap and horizontal looms) and non-loom or hand-construction...
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Makers and Markets: The Wright Collection of Twentieth-Century Native American Art The extent and significance of an iconic collection of pre-1990s southwestern crafts, including an impressive range of exemplary textiles, basketry, pottery, jewelry, and more. Discusses market factors and the rise of both...
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Master Weaver from Ghana Juvenile nonfiction - 32 pages. Bobbo is a traditional weaver from Ghana, where his ancestors have been weaving for generations. His young son, Kweku, learns from him, just as Bobbo learned from...
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Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror A documentary film co-produced with Bill Jungels, 2017. Available on YouTube, also with Spanish sub-titles. The film includes interviews with two weavers from Chenalhó, Chiapas as well as other young Maya men...
Documentary film 
Maya Gods and Monsters – Supernatural Stories from the Underworld and Beyond Through captivating stories and lush illustrations, Maya Gods and Monsters draws on ancient creation myths and lore of the Maya people and gives life to wild and quirky gods, magical monsters, and...
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Maya Hair Sashes Backstrap Woven in Jacaltenango, Guatemala / Cintas Mayas tejidas con el telar de cintura en Jacaltenango, Guatemala A bilingual book based on Carol's doctoral dissertation that features the Jakaltek backstrap loom, backstrap weaving, symbolism, and the beautiful hair sashes of the Jakaltek women from both anthropological and artistic perspectives....
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Maya Threads: A Woven History of Chiapas A definitive guide to the history, meaning, and evolution of the beautiful and intricate Maya textiles of Chiapas, Mexico. Photography by Janet Schwartz
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Mayan Arts and Crafts of Guatemala / Artes y Artesanías Mayas de Guatemala First a children's English/Spanish bilingual coloring book, then in (2003) augmented to eight Mayan languages and Spanish. The latter appeared with the assistance of Maya educators, translators, and Fernando Peñalosa of Yax...
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Mayas in Postwar Guatemala, Harvest of Violence Revisited – Everyday Violence of Exclusion: Women in Precarious Neighborhoods of Guatemala City Edited by Walter Little and Timpothy Smith, Everyday Violence of Exclusion: Women in Precarious Neighborhoods of Guatemala City
Chapter in book 
Miss Brauer’s Playground: The Missionary Venture and the Organization of Space. Presented at Conference on Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration... Description coming soon.
Conference presentation 
Mississippian Village Textiles at Wickliffe All you ever wanted to know about Native American fabric types and technology in southeastern North America during the millennium before the arrival of Europeans, with data from the relatively few extant...
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More of Survival than an Art: Comparing Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Lifeways and Weaving In Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, edited by Eulalie Bonar
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More Tapestry Crochet 1st and 2nd Edition Includes the basics of tapestry crochet, an expanded history, tapestry crochet design, special graph papers, and instructions for 20 projects. More Tapestry Crochet,2nd edition, digital Kindle edition, 2014. Availableon Amazon.com.Typos fixed and...
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Moroccan Feminism at the Grassroots Level. In Moroccan Feminisms: New Perspectives. Moha Ennaji, Fatima Sadiqi and Karen Vintges, Eds. One of the artisans in Women Artisans of Morocco, a button maker and grassroots feminist, describes in fascinating detail her life, the choices she's made, and how she helps other women.
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Mujer Maya, Tejido e Identidad ÃÂtnica: Un ensayo histórico In La Indumentaria y el Tejido Mayas a Través del Tiempo, L. Asturias de Barrios and D. Fernández, eds.
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My Little Loom Companion A weaving book for beginners learning to weave on a simple lap loom. All of the basic weaving techniques are explained with step-by step directions and photos. Purchase online www.thecreativitypatch.com - $16....
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Nature Provides Dyes for Rainbows, A Workshop Approach A workshop approach for obtaining rainbows of colors during each of three different workshops: Missouri Dye Plants (locally found plants); Ancient Dyes (imported dyes commonly used in America before synthetic dyes in...
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Nature’s Colorways: Conjuring the Chemistry and Culture of Natural Dyes Ajrakh Artist Sufiyan Khatri
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Navajo Weavers and Globalization: Critiquing the Silences. Textile Society of America Proceedings Description coming soon.
Article 
Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors Description coming soon.
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New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, Organized Session, Touch and Technology, Finding Binding Points: Design Development and the... Description coming soon.
Digital 
New Exchange Processes in the International Market: the Re-making of Maya Artisan Production in Guatemala Museum Anthropology Vol 21, No2, Fall 1997. P 72-82
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