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Eternal Egypt: Silk Textile Fragment
This silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, has designs of geometric patterns, plant elements, and benedictory inscriptions.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Cotton Textile
This piece of cotton textile is decorated in dark green color with three stripes containing flowers and gammas.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Woolen Textile
This piece of woolen textile, woven in the Coptic traditional Kapati style, is among the most important items of Coptic art.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of a Linen Textile
This piece of linen textile is decorated with a single-line inscription in black Kufic script. Some parts of the inscription are lacking the embroidery.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Ottoman Textile
This piece of Ottoman textile has red designs repeated on a golden yellow background. It has a round opening at the top, which gives the impression that it could be part of a garment.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Colored Textile
This piece of colored textile is made of linen and wool and decorated with an eight-pointed star.
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Eternal Egypt: Oblong Wool Kapati Textile
The oblong piece of Kapati textile, a fabric named for the Copts, is made of wool surrounded by bands of undecorated dark blue. It is decorated with animal and human figures separated by a tree against a red background.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Silk Textile Fabric
This piece of silk textile, renowned as damask, probably represents a part of a complete garment. It is decorated by green ornaments on a blue background, according to the Chinese style.
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Eternal Egypt: Textile Fragment With Camels
The Tulunid textile fragment has a red band decorated with white and green camels separated by geometric designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Linen Textile Fabric
A piece of linen textile has as its main decoration numerous longitudinal lines with contrasting ornaments. Some of the ornaments are narrow calligraphy and others include geometric decorations and drawings of animals and birds.
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The Fabric of Moroccan Life Urban Textiles and Costumes
For hundreds of years, Moroccan women have composed fine embroideries and rugs using intricate designs that have been passed down through generations. View these exquisite textiles with large detailed images.
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The Fabric of Moroccan Life Urban Textiles and Costumes
For hundreds of years, Moroccan women have composed fine embroideries and rugs using intricate designs that have been passed down through generations. View these exquisite textiles with large detailed images.
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The Fabric of Moroccan Life Urban Textiles and Costumes
For hundreds of years, Moroccan women have composed fine embroideries and rugs using intricate designs that have been passed down through generations. View these exquisite textiles with large detailed images.
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Gifts and Blessings: The Textile Arts of Madagascar
To the people of Madagascar woven cloth is more than just something nice to wear. Come explore the topic of textiles and their importance to these African people.
Northern Illinois University
Se Asite: Batik
This site describes the process of creating and dying batik fabrics. There are links to specific methods of batik, a quiz, and additional links to related sites.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: William Morris
This site from The Victorian Web provides a wide variety of excellent resources related to Victorian artist William Morris, including a biography, social and political history, and information about his visual arts, themes, literary...
Digital History
Digital History: The Roots of American Economic Growth
Francis Cabot Lowell introduced mechanized textile manufacturing to the Northeast. Read about how he built his machinery and whom the textile mills employed.
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Transformation, Fun and Aesthetics
International Fashion Machine is a company dedicated to creating electronic textile fashions. Learn about the all new Pom Pom light dimmers in which small, soft textile pom poms are used as light switches.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The First American Factories
The growth of cities and the American economy in the first half of the 19th century was driven by the growth of factories. Read about the textile industry in New England and how manufacturing spread throughout the north.
Digital History
Digital History: The Introduction of the Factory System
The factory system revolutionized manufacturing and the employment of unskilled workers to man the factories. Read about the young children, women, and, later, immigrants who provided the labor to the textile mills and other...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 159: Lowell, Massachusetts
History of Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mill that underwent tremendous growth in the early 1800s, and led to the creation of America's first industrial city. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lia Cook
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Lia Cook is described here along with information on his contributions to art through her work with weaving, textiles, and draped fabric.
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Textiles
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Textiles."
The History Place
The History Place: Child Labor in America: 1908 1912: Investigative Photos of Lewis Hine
Powerfully visual website with haunting images of working conditions faced by child workers in a variety of occupational sites, including mines, textile mills, newspaper stands, and factories. Will make many of today's children empathize...
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