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Textiles
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Textile History Museum 
 Website for this Massachusetts museum with a mission of "[telling] America's story through art, science, and history of its textiles." Features overviews of exhibits and collections (such as costumes and machinery) and a growing database of items from the museum's permanent collection. http://www.athm.org/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Dec 11, 2007 Descendants of the Incas
From creation to the market place, the traditions of Andean woven goods are illustrated at this site produced by the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco. Photographs show weavers and their looms, yarns, traditional weaving designs, Inca ruins, and land and people of the village of Chinchero. http://www.incas.org/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Photograph Collections: Regional, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Jul 14, 2003 Design a Textile
Use this interactive site to design your own floral textile. Choose stem and foliage, background color, flower types, and repeat options. Then you can e-mail or print your design. From the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/designa/textile/textile.html Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Mar 24, 2009 Designing Britain, 1945-1975: Fabrics Forming Society
This site "is structured as an image database comprising sources relating to textile design and dress in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s." Includes images of knitting and sewing patterns, fabrics, and dresses. Also includes bibliographic citations. Browsable by time period or by selected keywords. From the University of Brighton. http://www.brighton.ac.uk/designingbritain/html/ffs.html Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Dec 18, 2005 Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance
This companion to a 2005 exhibit highlights technical textiles used in applications such as apparel, sports, transportation, medicine, and engineering. Includes images and brief descriptions of items such as Gore-tex apparel, spacesuits, carbon bicycle wheels, speed-skiing helmets, vascular grafts, fishing nets, and more. Includes a game and video clips. From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/extreme_textiles/index.asp Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Technology Last updated Feb 16, 2006 FabricLink
Information about fabrics and textiles, including a stain removal guide for washable fabrics, carpets, and upholstery; tips on storing garments; laundry tips; and brief descriptions of fiber characteristics. http://www.FabricLink.com/home.html Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Home & Housing, Home & Housing Last updated Oct 7, 2006 Fashioning Felt
Companion website to a 2009 exhibition and book focusing "on felt that has been produced by traditional hand- or machine-felting processes; they exclude non-woven felt and techniques, in order to underscore the essential elements of feltmaking." View objects from the exhibit (browsable by keyword and designer), view process photos for a Turkmenistan-made carpet, and read related blog entries. From the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Jun 10, 2009 Fiberlink
"A site for information about all things related to the fiber arts." Provides annotated links to charts, work by fiber artists, organizations, knitting patterns, techniques, liturgical textiles, and more. http://www.fibergypsy.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Religion Last updated Aug 25, 2005 The Historic Costume & Textiles Collection at The Ohio State University
This site highlights items from this fashion collection, which includes "a range of historic textiles from the 15th century to 20th century furnishing fabrics ... [and] garments and accessories from the mid-18th century to contemporary 21st century designers." Features selected images from the collection and from exhibits such as "A Century of Style: 100 Years of 4-H Fashion." Includes related links. http://costume.osu.edu Topics: Agriculture, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Fashion, History, Holidays & Observances, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Feb 17, 2005 Hmong Textiles
A collection of over 20 images of textiles from the Hmong people of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand, and from Hmong-Americans. Includes examples of "flower cloth" ("paj ntaub"), which "is used to decorate traditional Hmong clothing and are valued as works of textile art." From the Southeast Asian Archive, University of California, Irvine. http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/hmong.html Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Aug 10, 2003 Indonesian Textiles
"The National Gallery of Australia holds one of the richest public collections of Indonesian textiles in the world. ... [T]he extensive collection of over 1200 works is accessible to scholars, researchers and textile enthusiasts across the globe through this website." Includes images and item descriptions (such as medium, technique, and subject). Also includes a glossary. Searchable, or browsable by region. http://www.nga.gov.au/IndonesianTextiles/Code/Default.cfm Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Jan 10, 2006 The Legacy of Genghis Khan
This online exhibit from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores "courtly art and culture in western Asia, 1256-1353," by examining "the important artistic and cultural achievements that occurred in the Iranian world in the aftermath of the Mongol invasions." It features information and images about the Mongols in China and in Iran, the Mongols and Islam, manuscript illustration, and textile art. Includes a resource guide for teachers. http://www.lacma.org/khan/ Topics: Art by Region, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Faiths, History By Place, International Governments, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Regions of the World, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Jun 23, 2006 Mola Collection
Mola means blouse in the Kuna Indian culture of Panama. To collectors, a Mola is a fabric panel, intricately appliqued in primary colors hand-stitched by Kuna women. http://thorup.com/mola.html Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Dec 2, 2002 Pieces of a Puzzle: Classical Persian Carpet Fragments
Examples of fragments of 16th and 17th century Persian rugs, including "three principal surviving fragments of one spectacular 16th-century Khorasan rug [which] are reunited in this exhibition. ... These pieces also fit together like a puzzle, allowing us to glimpse the grand scale of the original carpet." Includes an overview of the Khorasan region (in modern Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan), diagrams of rug knotting techniques, and images of carpet fragments. From the Textile Museum. http://www.textilemuseum.org/pieces/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Sep 22, 2008 Tartan Finder
Images of more than two thousand Scottish tartans with the standard variations. One can search by tartan or clan name and by color codes. There is also an extract from the book Identifying Tartans by Blair Urquhart telling the story of the tartan and its origins. http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/tfinder.htp?secid=77 Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, History Last updated Jul 29, 2002 Tartans of Scotland
The "complete Register of all Publicly Known Tartans online, which includes details and images of over 2800 tartans." Search by family name, tartan, or sept (clan branch). Variations such as corporate, district, novelty, service, sports, and trade tartans are included. Features articles on the making, wearing, and history of the tartan as well as a Scottish Association World Directory and a Scottish Heritage section with articles on music, whisky, genealogy, and more. http://www.tartans.scotland.net/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, History, Musical Genres Last updated Oct 16, 2003 Textile Links
"Articles and links covering spinning, weaving, quilting, felting, knitting, sewing, dyeing, and the whole world of textiles. Links to supply sources, organizations, museums, events, training, etc." The links are annotated and the site also has a glossary. There are quite a few dead links but the collection is large and has a lot to offer. http://textilelinks.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Apr 29, 2003 What Would Frida Wear?
"This website answers the question 'What would [artist] Frida [Kahlo] wear?' by offering a glimpse of some of the Mexican textiles of the Cordry Collection" at the Arizona State Museum. Dress Frida in traditional Mexican garments such as the huipile and quechquemitl by clicking on the thumbnail images in the exhibit's interactive features. Also includes background on Mexican textiles, brief biography of Kahlo, and a bibliography. Produced by an intern for the Arizona State Museum. http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/frida/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Feb 23, 2009 |
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