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Alien Travel Guide: History of Weaving

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Alien Travel Guide contains an outline to information on the history of weaving. The outline is in link form for easy navigation and it contains wonderful basic information.
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Smithsonian Institution

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Kyoto National Museum: Dictionary for Kids!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This helpful, kid-friendly dictionary is your guide to the museum's collection of Asian art. Read about architecture, paintings, ceramics, and more!
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International Quilt Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln has created a graduate program in Textile History with an emphasis on quilt studies to nurture the appreciation of quilts as an art and for their cultural significance in history. Their International...
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Smithsonian Institution

The Fabric of Moroccan Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit at the National Museum of African Art highlights textiles, embroidery, and jewelry from Morocco. Besides having pictures of 67 artifacts, there is a section on the history of Morocco. The education link allows...
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One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has images of some beautiful Asian Art through various textiles.
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Web Gallery of Art: Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer", created by Edgar Degas from 1880-81 (Bronze with patina and textiles, height 98 cm).
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Other

West African Wisdom: Adinkra Symbols & Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of African adinkra symbols and their meanings.
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National Museum of African Art: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about African kente cloth, including how it is made, when to wear it, and how to wear it. Accompanying interactive lets you can design your own kente.
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Kente Paper Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan that introduces young young scholars to African textiles. This is a simple paper weaving lesson based on African Kente cloth. Includes lesson adaptations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cotton Hammock, Vai People

For Students 9th - 10th
View a picture of and read a description of an elaborate hammock probably made for a male or female chief in Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century.
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The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
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Website
Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Gothic Tapestry and Embroidery of England

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, this is an examination of the museum's collection of English Gothic tapestries and embroideries, spanning 1400 to 1547.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Empire That Was Russia, Photographic Record Recreated

For Students 9th - 10th
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
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Other

Carpet Museum of Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web of Tehran's museum of carpets, which showcases the craftsmanship and beauty of the carpet-weaving traditions of the region. Virtual panoramic tours of the museum's galleries and multiple examples of the rich variety...
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Alien Travel Guide: The History of Weaving

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site provides a walk through the ages in textile development. Includes quite a bit on the loom innovations and developments of the textile industry.
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Wesleyan University Press: Anni Albers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Wesleyan University Press provides a great biography of Anni Albers. The information is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.

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