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Textiles

This category lists sites offering information, resources, instruction and exhibits relating to fabric, yarn, and to textile crafts including spinning, weaving, dyeing, felting, braiding, and multi-media textile arts.

Please do not list sites in this category that focus primarily on selling textiles or offering goods for sale.

Any site that focuses primarily on selling goods should submit to one of the appropriate Shopping/Crafts/Fiber_Arts categories

Business/Industries/Manufacturing/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/.

Artists

This category is for websites about the fiber artists who create textile art, including fabrics and objects made by weaving, felting, knitting, braiding, or netting, from the various textile fibers, natural or manmade.

Please submit sites about textile artists, including those containing galleries, educational or informational sites.

Please do not list sites in this category that primarily offer goods for sale.

Any site that offers goods for sale should submit to one of the appropriate Shopping/Crafts/Fiber_Arts categories.

Braiding

Includes techniques including kumihimo (various Japanese techniques), ply-split braiding, and finger-loop braiding. Braids can be used as ties, closures or trim on garments, as straps or belts, or as jewelry. Other off-loom techniques include card (tablet), backstrap and inkle weaving, all found under the Weaving category.

Please submit informational and art sites related to braiding.

Dyeing

An ancient art filled with myth and lore. Dyers use either natural dyes from plant, animal or mineral sources, or synthetic dyes designed for specific fiber types. Many effects can be achieved by various techniques including vat dyeing, dip dyeing, masking with resist on fabric (batik), masking by tying fabric (tie-die or shibori), masking by tying warp or weft (ikat), warp or yarn painting, and variations of these.

Please submit sites dealing with the craft of hand dyeing textiles.

Education

This category contains links to organizations, institutes, web sites and programs involved in informal educational activities aimed at professionals in the textile and fashion industry.

Handspinning

Handspinning is the craft of creating yarn from fiber, by drawing the fibers out while twisting them. It can by accomplished using a spinning wheel treadled by foot or by hand, or using a drop or support spindle or even more primitive means. This category and its subcategories cover sites about handspinners, equipment, techniques, festivals and events, and types of fiber.

Please submit sites pertaining to the art and craft of handspinning, including artists'' personal pages, informational and educational sites.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer goods, fiber, equipment or yarn for sale. Submit them instead to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Spinning or the appropriate subcategory.

Macrame

This category lists sites about creating items using macrame and other decorative knotting techniques, and about the people who create them.

Please submit sites about macrame and decorative knotting used in arts and objects, including gallery, educational and informational sites.

Please do not submit sites that primarily offer items for sale. Submit them instead to the appropriate Shopping/Crafts category.

News and Media

This category lists portals to the textile and related industries only.

Organizations

Listings for organizations of textile artists and/or craftspeople, including guilds, clubs, and other organized groups of creative people.

Resources

This category lists sites primarily dealing with research, education and general information on issues related to textile and apparel manufacturing, raw materials, processes, products and marketing.

Please, do not submit sites from commercial textile companies here. The appropriate categories for these are to be found in Textiles and Nonwovens/Textiles, and Textiles and Nonwovens/Services.

Thanks you for your cooperation.

Weaving

The craft of weaving is also known as "handweaving", to distinguish it from mass-production machine weaving which makes most of the fabric today. It is creating fabric from fiber, by interlacing warp and weft threads. This category and its subcategories cover informational and educational sites about weaving and weavers, equipment, techniques, festivals and events.

Please submit sites pertaining to the art and craft of weaving, including artists'' personal pages, informational and educational sites.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer weaving supplies, equipment or yarn for sale. Submit them instead to
Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Weaving or the appropriate subcategory.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer handwoven goods for sale. Submit them instead to
https://curlie.org/Shopping/Crafts/Fiber_Arts/Hand_Weaving/.

Weaving Organizations

Local or regional organizations of weavers, often called guilds.

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site.