Books, Articles, and Films by WARP Members

Many articles on palm, reed and maguey baskets, hats, mats and bags for Revue magazine and Strands See my website. http://www.kathrynrousso.com/

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...

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...

51 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. This chain looks exquisite and complicated, but the process is simple and straightforward. Examples of these chains have been found in various archeological sites in...

This manual is aimed at band weavers who have tried and found that they love to do pick-up work. The warp-faced double weave structure allows weavers to create clean, crisp designs on...

108 minutes. Shows complete and detailed steps for successful, trouble-free warping.

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...

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79 minutes. Shows how to design, draft, weave, and wet-finish deflected doubleweave fabrics (both flat fabrics and dimensional fabrics created with differential shrinkage). Includes a handbook with exercises and projects to try.

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...

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...

109 minutes. Thoroughly covers drafting and weaving huck lace, Atwater-Bronson lace, and Swedish lace. Demonstrates how to create original designs and choose appropriate materials and setts. Includes a comprehensive handbook.

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...

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...

50 minutes. Shows how to design, draft, and weave summer and winter with treadling variations to create different effects. Gives ideas for playing with colors and materials and includes a handbook with...

122 minutes. Gives weaving tips and techniques for achieving smooth selvedges and evenly woven cloth, handling shuttles, avoiding and fixing errors, choosing and matching colors, yarns, and setts with weave structures, and...

Feature length documentary directed by Bennie Klain of Trickster Films, Austin, TX, In this compelling and intimate portrait of economic and cultural survival through art, Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain takes viewers into...

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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

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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...

This is an anthology of American Women expats living in Mexico in which I wrote one chapter.

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...

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...

Describes in detail the benefits and challenges of selling the textile products of artisans overseas online. Can be used as an initial how-to by aspiring marketers.

pp 157-169 (Original Spanish version 1992)

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Jackie leads you through the complete process of weaving colorful and unique cathead baskets, using painted cotton paper. The instructions are accessible for all levels of basket makers, with many adaptations for...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

A column in Handwoven Magazine for 9 years written under the name Debbie Redding.  A column written to help weavers, beginners and others, understand all aspects of weaving, mostly on four or...