“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

Native American basket weaving is one of the oldest and most meaningful art forms in North America, reflecting not only creativity but also cultural heritage and survival skills. More than simple ...

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

SPINNING YARN: Anni Albers weaves at Black Mountain College. The influential instructor and her work at BMC is a focal point of a new exhibition at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

Using silk thread as fine as a spider's spinnings, Kate Barker was carefully conserving a banner of old Masonic lodge insignias last month -- something sewed together in the 19th century that's now ...

Pupils at Pleasant Grove Elementary on Thursday get a taste of life in colonial America by making butter, writing with quills and listening to music from the Revolutionary War period. Clockwise from ...

Introduction: textiles, text, and a medium-specific craft -- Pictures made of wool: weaving labor in the workshop -- Toward a modernist theory of weaving: the use of textiles in architectural space -- ...

Introduction to the weaving workshops of Thiès and Ndem -- Social relationships and belief in Thiès and Ndem -- Weaving history from archaeology, travelogues and oral tradition -- Explanation of the ...