Articles related to "Textile Arts"



A Sari or Saree as a Fabric Source
If you are fortunate enough to come across an old or used sari in your travels, snap it up quick as these beautiful items offer great opportunities to the creative sewer.
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Boot Liners
Here is a pattern for boot liners for the rubber boots commonly called "Wellies" or "Barn Boots."
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Create a Heart
Here are the general directions for making a heart shape using either knit or crochet. This way you can develop your own projects from lapel pins, dish clothes, to pillows!
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Crochet Felt Hat
Here's a way to make felt by crocheting wool and mohair and making use of the action of your washing machine to make felt.
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Crochet Rag Rugs
Crocheted rag rugs are an inexpensive and charming addition to your home. Here are the basic instructions for repairing or making crochets rugs from scratch.
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Development of Early Looms
Loom design from the Neolithic to modern times.
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DYEING: Green for Paddy's Day
Here is a description of the process to achieve the color green to dye projects for St. Patrick's Day. I've included pictures so you can follow the process more easily.
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Easy Lace Scarf
Here is a very fast lacey scarf to knit for Valentine or late season gift giving!
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Lacey Easter Hat
Here is a an easy quick lacey cap for Spring wear, plus some links for quick Easter gifts!
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Lady's Bedstraw
A very winter hardy natural dye plant similar to madder is Lady's Bedstraw. Here is a brief artile on its history and use.
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Needle Felting in Sewing Projects
The technique of needle felting is used to add embellishments to many different sewing and needlecraft projects. The sharp barbed needle can be worked by hand or machine.
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Rib and Garter Sweater
Here's an easy, yet stylish sweater which uses texture for interest.
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Shamrock Pillow or Sachet
Here is a way to crochet or knit a shamrock shaped pillow or a smaller shamrock sachet!
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Summer Beach Hat
Here is an easy quick wide brim sun hat that folds to fit in a beach bag!
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Summer Sailor Hat
Here is a nice quick to make summer hat to keep your head cool.
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Taking a Pattern from an existing garment
It is very simple to make a pattern from an existing garment and use it create a new one. Change modalities! Knit up your favorite shirt. Turn your favorite sweater into a cloth top.
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Textiles and Art
In many cultures and historical periods textiles were often a woman's only source of artistic expression. This article looks at this premise and gives many sites for viewing various textile forms.
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The Cloth Traders
How textile artisanry led to the cloth trade and promoted the development of the family business.
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Baby Buntings to Knit and Crochet
Here is an easy baby bunting pattern in knit or crochet versions. Large needles and crochet hooks make this nice baby gift work up quickly!
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Beach Sack
Here is a pattern for a beach sack or heavy string grocery sack that's works up quickly
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Christmas Tree Hat
Here is a really cool hat that looks like a Christmas tree. My son and Husband love theirs.
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Christmas Tree Sweater
Here is a green sweater striped in red. With the addition of tacked on hand made ornaments it looks like a XMAS tree.
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Cloth from Plant Fibers: Linen
Introductory comments on Linen, its uses and methods of processing
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CROCHET HOLIDAY BASKET
Here is a pattern for a nice gift basket that can be made of many different materials. Makes a lovely easter gift.
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Earth Day Mug Rug and Place Mat
Here is one of a series of Earth Dya projects suitible for young kids. This is the directions for a lovely mugrug and placemat made from recycled plastic grocery bags.
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Earth Day Tote
Make a grocery tote -- out of old grocery bags! Here a nice crochet project that looks really lovely.
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Easy Crochet Poncho
Here is a super easy fast poncho pattern that uses yarn left overs.
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Easy, Cheap Kid Xmas Projects
Here's a number of cheap easy Xmas ornaments and gifts for holiday gift giving!
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Fiber Sample Sweater
Holiday gift production can result in a huge pile of left over fiber and yarns. Here is a sweaterthat makes use of all those little bits of stuff.
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Harry Potter-Type Hat
Here's a Harry Potter-type hat for Halloween Haunting in an easy knit pattern.
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IRISH HAT FOR ST. PADDY'S DAY
Here is a cute St. Patrick's Day hat for kids. It works up quickly and could be adapted for adults with just the addition of a couple rows of crochet.
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Keepsake Pet Fur Hat and Mittens
Here is a brief description of how to spin pet undercoat in to usable fiber and two patterns to use to make some lovely keepsake gifts for pet owners.
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Part I: Model Stitching ~ My Story
A personal experience essay about how I started model stitching for publishers and shop owners.
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Part II: Tips and Techniques
Part 2 of Tips and Techniques: Floss Preparation, Starting and Ending Stitches, Keeping Your Place, Where to Start Stitching, and Railroading.
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Rabbit Hat for Easter (knit)
Here is a pattern for a cool hat that looks like a rabbit. Great for spring holiday giving. My Kid loves his!
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Spinning Cottonwood
Here is an article on spinning the alternative fiber --cottonwood down.
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Spinning For a Handspun Look
Sometimes you want to produce a lumpy yarn for a project. Here are suggestions to produce rough looking yarn.
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The Fastest Gift Tam Ever
Here is a super fast crocheted hat perfect for holiday gift giving. It works up in just two hours!
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Turkey Hat
Here are the directions for a hat that looks like a turkey. It can be adapted to look like other birds with some creativity, or used for a center piece.
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Expressing a Culture in Fabrics
Fabric as an expression of culture through the ages.
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Museums in Portland, Oregon
From the Portland Art Museum to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Forestry Center, Museum of Contemporary Craft and Oregon Historical Society discovery awaits.
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Sharing our Needle Art with Others
Opportunities abound for us to teach our needle art to others. This article gives some ideas of how to start.
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Silk
Here is a nice article on ethnic silk production with some additional links to buy and grow your own silk moth caterpillars.
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Cloth Which Signifies
Textile design in flags, banners, insignia, kites and windsocks
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Horticultural Therapy in your Garden
Horticultural Therapy is a multidisciplinary program of study involving fields such as horticulture, psychology, landscape architecture, gerontology and sociology.
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The Bauhaus Weaving Workshop
Notes on the Bauhaus School of Textile Design.
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Idea Exchange in the fiber World: from Kente cloth to quilt
This article looks at the phenomena of cross fertilization of artistic technique.
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WEAVING TECHNIQUE; advanced tapestry
Here is another article which tells how to produce crisp graphic images in tapestry. It is a very ancient but easy technique used by weavers from the Navaho people to the tapestries of the Gobelin School.
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Museums of Eastern European Art and Folk Culture
The following museums are dedicated to promoting the folk art and culture of Eastern Europeans and Eastern European communities in the United States.
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49 Sensational Skirts Book Review
49 Sensational Skirts by "Skirtgirl" Alison Willoughby offers readers the opportunity to make unique pieces of wearable art in Alison's innovative and unique style.
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