A Textile Guide to the Chiapas Highlands 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...
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A Textile Traveler’s 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...
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A Textile Traveler’s 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...
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A Weaver’s 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...
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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.
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Adventures in Modern Tapestry: Gloria Ross, Kenneth Noland and Native American Weavers. American Indian Art 37(1) Description coming soon.
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Andean Pebble Weave on Inkle Looms 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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Arizona State Museum’s Textiles and the ‘Southwest – Northwest’ Continuum American Indian Art 30(1) Description coming soon.
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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.
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Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market: Walking the Heart Path This is a series of essays, several written by WARP members.
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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
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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.
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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...
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Bead & Felted Tapestry Crochet 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
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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...
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Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving. American Indian Art 40(3) Description coming soon.
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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,...
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Beyond the Stones of Machu Picchu: Folk Tales and Stories of Inca Lives 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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Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund Description coming soon.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs. American Indian Art 28(3) Description coming soon.
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Continuous Strand Weaving Method, Techniques and Projects for Triangle, Square, and Rectangle FrameÃÂ Looms 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...
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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. http://www.hillcreekfiberstudio.com/
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Coton jaune – Acadian Brown Cotton – A Cajun Love Story 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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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
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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. https://www.myrawood.com
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Crazyshot Companion- Charted Designs for Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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. https://www.myrawood.com
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Cuando una mujer se levanta (Spanish translation of When a Woman Rises) 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...
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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...
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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...
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Designing Among the Navajo: Ethnoaesthetics in Weaving, in Textiles as Primary Sources: Proceedings of the First Symposium of the Textile... Description coming soon.
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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. 2...
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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...
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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...
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El Piteado – A Mexican Folk Art Tradition in Textile Society of America Proceedings – Appropriation Acculturation Transformation http://www.acadianbrowncotton.com/
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Embroidering with the Loom: Creative Combinations of Weaving and Stitchery 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....
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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...
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Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Vol. 2 – Dress of Eastern Guatemala Description coming soon.
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Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Vol. 2 – Morrales in Guatemala Description coming soon.
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Endangered Threads documentaries 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...
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...
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Exploring Multishaft Design and Exploring Multishaft Design, second edition 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...
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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...
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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.
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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
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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...
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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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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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