Textiles & Weaving Research

 Links

• Amy Herzog | CustomFit
• Armscye Calculator
• Calendar of Knitting & Fiber Events
• Knitter's Review 
• Celtic-Hallstaat/Early UK Culture Post 
• Centro de Texiles Tradicionales del Cusco
• China National Silk Museum
  
• Clouds Factory Cross Stitch
• Color in a New Light
• Making Color
• Smithsonian Museums
• Cross Stitch Patterns Blog-Antique
  
• Egyptology Post 
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber's Blog
• Embroidery Post 
• The ARTFL Encyclopédie
• The University of Chicago
• The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert
• Collaborartive Translation Project, University of Michigan Library.
• Cotton Culture and Cleaning
• Hemp
• Indigo Plantation and Manioc
• Processing and Uses of Cotton
• Raising Silk Worms
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• Fashioning the New England Family Online Exhibit
• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Kniterator, the top-down raglan Calculator
• Knitting in the Round: Hand-Knitted Textiles and the Economies of Craft in Scotland
• School of Humanities, University of Glasgow 
• The George Washington University Textile Museum
• Museum of Natural and Cultural History | University of Oregon
• Aboriginal Australian Bark Paintings
• Ethiopian Collection
• Fancy Footwear
• Great Basin Basketry
• Great Basin Sandals
• Inupiaq Baleen Baskets
• Klamath Basketry
• Klamath River Basin Basketry Caps
• Kuna Molas
• Métis Textiles
• Navajo, Pueblo, and other Southwestern Weavings
• Plateau Basketry: Cornhusk Bags
• Plateau Basketry: Sally Bags
• Tapa Cloth
• Tlingit Spruce Root Baskets
• New Media Arts
• Antique Pattern Library
  
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections 
• Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes
• [International Exposition of decorative art and modern industrialization] 
• 1925, Paris, France. 
• Anciennes tapisseries historiées
• 1838 
• Norse Research Post 
• Online Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics
• articles 
• books 
• ephemera 
• illustrations 
• manuscripts 
• monographs 
• periodicals 
• webdocs 
• RGB values for DMC Floss
• The Scottish Register of Tartans
• Shetland Museum & Archives 
• Textiles
• Spinning & Fiber Research Post 
• Steppe Research Post 
• The Textile Conservation Centre foundation 
• Textile Museum of Canada
• Textile Research Centre 
•  The TRC Digital Encyclopedia of Decorative Needlework
  
• Google Cultural Institute
• The Panopticon Blog
• Textile Society of America
• Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
• University of Nebraska Lincoln DigitalCommons 
• 2014: New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future 
• 2012: Textiles and Politics 
• 2010: Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyberspace 
• 2008: Textiles as Cultural Expressions 
• 2006: Tectile Narratives and Conversations 
• 2004: Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation 
• University of Glasgow 
• Records of the Textile Industry (Scotland) 
• Textile Conservation Blog
• Resurrecting Turkey Red Dying Suggestions 
• Textile Conservation as a career
• Women's History Post 
• Word Origins of Some Textile Terms
• My Textile Notes Blog, 2016.

Videos

• Craft in America: Threads Episode
• PBS, 2012. 
• Knitting's Early History
• How Stuff Works Podcast, 2016. 
• random424vid Youtube User
• techlab7reasons (German) 
• Stonehenge: A Forbidden Landscape 
• Geoprospectors: Understanding near surface structures 
• A Roman town in Lusitania 
• Kingdom of Salt- a travelling exhibition at the cutting edge of science 
• Auf römischen Spuren im Haus der Geschichte Bonn 
• Leather and textile production 
• Keltischer Streitwagen (Celtic Chariot?) 
• Penn Museum Youtube
• Bali: Reel 4 (1955) (minute 7:48-9:16) 
• Block Printing Textiles, burning designs?, rinsing & showing finished fabric. 
• Cochineal Insect Dye 
• Cyprus 1969 Reel 58 of 65 (minute 2:55 - 14:56 ) 
• Fancy Weave? (individual threads for patterning) and showing finished fabric. 
• India 1959 Reel 10 of 31 (minute 4:22-8:47) 
• Loom-mechanized pattern shafts?, weaving saris?, spinning on small spinning wheel (cotton?) 
• India 1959 Reel 19 of 31 (minute 0:00-1:06, 2:53-4:24, 14:57-15:51, 16:52-17:47) 
• India Reel 22 of 24 (minute 9:37-13:15) 
• India 1959 Reel 25 of 31 (minute 11:52-15:55) 
• Laos/Cambodia 1957 Reel 23 of 44 (minute 6:24-6:36) 
• Mexico #1
• 1920s. 
• Nepal 1957 Reel 1 of 44 (minute 11:13-13:04) 
• New Guinea 1957 Reel 34 of 44 (minute 12:04-12:50) 
• Niger 1967 Reel 2 of 52 (minute 6:37-7:52) 
• Reel 71: Pakistan: Reel 1 (minute 11:15-11:54) 
• Pakistan 1953 Reel 8 of 10 (minute 4:29-5:37) 
• Peru 1950 Reel 6 of 9 (minute 13:05-13:56) 
• Thailand 1957 Reel 20 of 44 (minute 0:00- 1:41, 10:53-11:58) 
• Tunisia 1967 Reel 25 of 52 (minute 6:29-7:28) 
• Tunisia 1967 Reel 28 of 52 (minute 6:34-9:00) 
• Turkey 1967 Reel 41 of 52 (minute 5:22-7:09)

Dyes Articles

Textiles & Weaving Articles

• See under DropMark Notebook (Link Above)
• Technique of Some South American Featherwork
• Charles W. Mead, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1907. 

Books

Bold indicates books out of print.
Italicized indicates free downloadable/online copy.

Dying

• Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing
• Ida Strawn Baker and Walter Davis Baker, Atkinson, Mentzer, & Company, 1920.
• Block Prints from India for Textiles
• Albert Buell Lewis, Field Museum of Natural History, 1924.
• Cochneal Red: The Art History of a Color
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010.
• The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• Franklin Beech, Greenwood & Co, 1901.
• The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
• Franklin Beech, Greenwood & Co, 1902.
• Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520-1620
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v. 73 no 2, 2015.
• The History and Analysis of Pre-Aniline Native American Quillwork Dyes
• Christina Cole and Susan Heald, Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, Univerisity of Nebraska Lincoln DigitalCommons.
• Javanese Batik Designs from Metal Stamps
• Albert Buell Lewis, Field Museum of Natural History, 1924.
• Natural Dyes in the United States
• Rita J. Adrosko, United States National Museum Bulletin no. 281, 1968.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• Vegetable Dyes: Being a book of Recipes and other information useful to the Dyer
• Ethel M. Mairet, Faber and Faber LTD, 1938.

Knitting

• No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting 
• Anne Macdonald, Ballantine Books, 1990.

Textiles

• The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth 
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, First Vintage Books, 2002. 
• Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C. - A.D. 200
• Mary Frame, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.
• Ancient Textiles, Modern Science 
• Heather Hopkins, Oxbow Books 2013. 
• Archaeological Explorations in Peru Part III Textiles of the Early Nazca Period
• Lila M. O'Neale, Field Museum of Natural History, 1937. 
• Cloth Cultures in Prehistoric Europe- The Bronze Age Evidence from Hallstatt. (PDF)
• Susanna Harris, Helga Rösel-Mautendorfer, Karina Grömer, Hans Reschreiter, Archaeology International, 2009. 
• The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
• The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
• Fashioning the New England Family (Kickstarter)
• Massachusetts Historical Society, 2018.
• Fashioning Tradition: Maya Huipiles in the Field Museum Collections
• J. Claire Odland, Fieldiana, Field Museum of Natural History, 2006. 
• "Hallstatt Textiles" Technical Analysis, Scientific Investigation and Experiment on Iron Age Textiles
• Peter Bichler, Karina Grömer, Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Anton Kern and Hans Reschreiter, 2005. 
• Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 
• Amelia Peck, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. 
• Kwakiutl string figures
• Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1992. 
• Mississippian Textiles at Wickliffe 
• Penelope Ballard Drooker, University of Alabama Press 1992. 
• The Mummies of Urumchi 
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. 
• Needlework in America: History, Designs, and Techniques 
• Virginia C. Bath, Studio, 1979. 
• Peruvian Textiles
• M.D.C. Crawford, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 12, Part 3, 1915. 
• Prähistorische Textilkunst in Mitteleuropa: Geschichte des Handwerkes und der Kleidunt vor den Römern
• K. Grömer, naturhistorisches museum wien, 2010. 
• Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States 
• William Henry Holmes, Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896 
• Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean 
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Princeton University Press, 1992. 
• Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report
• Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884 
• Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; also Adapted to those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
• William H. Dooley, Principal Lowell Industrial School, 1910-1914 
• Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to AD 400 (Ancient Textiles) 
• Margarita Gleba and Ulla Mannering, Oxbow Books, 2012. 
• Threading Time: A Cultural History of Threadwork 
• Dolores Bausum, Texas Christian University Press, 2001. 
• Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age 
• Eva Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Nosch, 2015 
• Visions of Dress: Recreating Bronze Age Clothing from the Danubian Region (PDF)
• Karina Grömer, Helga Rösel-Mautendorfer, Lisa Bender Joergensen, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 2013. 
• Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Weaving

• Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
• H. Ling Roth, Bankfield Museum, 1913. 
• Andean Pebble Weave
• Laverne Waddington, Patternfish, 2010.
• The Chilkat blanket
• Franz Boaz and George Thornton Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, 1907. 
• Chincha Plain-weave cloths
• Lila M. O'Neale, E. Bacon, C.W. Gemmer, R.V. Hall, J.W. Johnson, C.M. Osborne, M.B. Ross, University of California Press, 1949. 
• The Cultivation and Weaving of Cotton in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 
• Kate Peck Kent, 1957 
• Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home
• Mattie Phipps Todd and Alice W. Cooley, Rand, McNally & Company, 1902. 
• More Adventures with Warp-Faced Pick-Up Patterns: A Follow-Up to Andean Pebble Weave
• Laverne Waddington, Patternfish, 2012.
• Navajo Weavers: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Dr. Washington Matthews, 1884. 
• The Shuttle-Craft Book on American Hand-Weaving 
• Mary Meigs Atwater, 2014 (1947?). 
• A Study of the Textile Art in its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament
• William H. Holmes, 1888. 
• Tappet and Dobby Looms: Their Mechanism and Management
• Thomas Roberts, Emmott & Co. Ltd, 1920. 
• Theory of Silk Weaving: A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty, and Jacquard Silk Fabrics
• Arnold Wolfensberger, The American Silk Journal, 1921. 
• The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (Early American Studies) 
• Adrienne D. Hood, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 
• Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present
• Susan Kellogg, 2005.