Traditional weaving pattern

FHE Galleries artist Alexis Neal - creates Whariki with traditional weaving patterns reinterpreted using European materials.

To create their intricately beautiful array of fabrics, A Rum Fellow’s cofounders, husband-and-wife Dylan O’Shea and Caroline Lindsell, draw on centuries-old techniques found in Guatemala. “It’s a nation that lives and breathes textiles,” says O’Shea. There, family-run weavers produce the London-based studio’s brightly colored brocades and fabrics, which debut in the U.S. this summer with

We visit CTTC and its founder Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez to learn about Peruvian Textiles and what's being done to protect Andean craft for future generations

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

It is known that weaving is one of the oldest craft forms in the Middle East, but nomadic lifestyles and cultural interactions of the past, disregard political borders and political agreements, making it very difficult to accurately attribute material culture to specific tribes and places of origin. Long before Islam, these migratory cultures from the vast region of the Arabian Gulf had been influencing one another, sharing weaving techniques and common functions, creative ideas and…

Belarusian ethnic embroidery

Photo about Closeup of a traditional Mayan weaving, Guatemala. Image of native, textile, blanket - 18298181

Lithuanian Traditional Sashes

Two double-faced tablet-woven bands by Linda Hendrickson with traditional designs of the Mamasa Toraja and Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bedouin weaving patterns by Raphael Bick, via Flickr