Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales About Textiles
A great resource for introducing different types of textiles and weavings to your students. A good amount of background information is included as well as a few simple learning activities.
Curated OER
Alien Travel Guide: The History of Weaving
Site provides a walk through the ages in textile development. Includes quite a bit on the loom innovations and developments of the textile industry.
University of Iowa
Streaming Videos of Burkina Faso and Ghana
Dozens of streaming videos to view based on African art and culture. View examples of how masks are used in festivals and ceremonies, how pottery is formed and fired, art that is created for everyday living, weaving on a loom, funeral...
Curated OER
Weaving Kijoka Banana Fiber Cloth
This site from the Traditional Crafts of Japan site contains information on the art of weaving in Japan. It discusses the silk, the weaves, the loom and the future. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
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How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Weaving
The use of the spindle and loom, sewing, braiding, etc, form the subjects of many of the paintings, as also the process of cultivating flax, beating and combing it. - Goodrich, 1844
Other
Common Threads Unraveling the World of Textiles
Through the examination of two textiles from opposite sides of the world you will go in-depth to reveal how fiber arts can tell us more about people in other cultures.
Other
Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
Curated OER
Manalagi Group: Weaving in Indonesia
This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.
Curated OER
Manalagi Group: Weaving in Indonesia
This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.
Curated OER
Manalagi Group: Weaving in Indonesia
This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.
BBC
Bbc: History: Edmund Cartwright (1743 1823)
A summary of inventor Edmund Cartwright's (1743-1823 CE) life including details on many of his failed inventions. Archived.
Other
Native American Crafts Unit
Teach your students how to make some crafts that Native American children might have used for their toys.
Other
Descendants of the Incas
The "Weavings" section of this excellent website offers the following options for in-depth study: "Making and Dyeing Yarn", "Weavers and their Looms", "Chinchero Weaving", "Learning to Weave", and "Patterns of Chinchero". Click on a...
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Miguel Andrango
Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....
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Miguel Andrango
Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....
Curated OER
Doncho
This site from the Traditional Crafts of Japan site contains information on the art of weaving in Japan. It discusses the silk, the weaves, the loom and the future. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.
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Wedding Gown, Nishijin Textile.
This site from the Traditional Crafts of Japan site contains information on the art of weaving in Japan. It discusses the silk, the weaves, the loom and the future. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.