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edit   The Textile arts Portal The textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Textiles cover the human body to protect it from the elements and to send social cues to other people. Textiles are used to store, secure, and protect possessions, and to soften, insulate, and decorate living spaces and surfaces. The word textile is from Latin texere which means "to weave", "to braid" or "to construct". The simplest textile art is felting, in which animal fibers are matted together using heat and moisture. Most textile arts begin with twisting or spinning and plying fibers to make yarn (called thread when it is very fine and rope when it is very heavy). Yarn can then be knotted, looped, braided, or woven to make flexible fabric or cloth, and cloth can be used to make clothing and soft furnishings. All of these items – felt, yarn, fabric, and finished objects – are referred to as textiles. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization. The history of textile arts is also the history of international trade. Tyrian purple dye was an important trade good in the ancient Mediterranean. The Silk Road brought Chinese silk to India, Africa, and Europe. Tastes for imported luxury fabrics led to sumptuary laws during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The industrial revolution was a revolution of textiles technology: cotton gin, the spinning jenny, and the power loom mechanized production and led to the Luddite rebellion. More about Textile arts... Show new selections edit   Selected picture Credit: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Alim Khan wearing ceremonial robes in an early color photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky shot in 1911. Lavish silk and embroidery is symbolic of rank in many cultures. ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Selected biography John Henry Dearle or J. H. Dearle (1860–1932) was a British textile and stained glass designer trained by Pre-Raphaelite artist and craftsman William Morris. Dearle designed many of the later wallpapers and textiles released by Morris & Co., and contributed background and foliage patterns to tapestry designs featuring figures by Edward Burne-Jones and others. Beginning in his teens as a shop assistant and then design apprentice, Dearle rose to become Morris & Co.'s chief designer by 1890, creating designs for tapestries, embroidery, wallpapers, woven and printed textiles, stained glass, and carpets. Following Morris's death in 1896, Dearle was appointed Art Director of the firm, and became its principal stained glass designer on the death of Burne-Jones in 1898. ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Did you know... ...that canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet (pictured) were often based on woodcuts from herbals? ...that Navajo rugs sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850? ...that Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46? ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Selected article A baldachin, or baldaquin (Italian: baldacchino or baldachino), is a canopy of state over an altar or throne, It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals. A cloth of honour is a simpler cloth hanging vertically behind the throne, which may be combined with a canopy. In the Middle Ages, a hieratic canopy of state or cloth of state was hung over the seat of a personage of sufficient standing, as a symbol of authority. The seat under such a canopy of state would normally be raised on a dais. Emperors and kings, reigning dukes and bishops were accorded this honour. In a 15th-century manuscript illumination the sovereign Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller in Rhodes sits in state to receive a presentation copy of the author's book. His seat is raised on a carpet-covered dais and backed with a richly embroidered dosser (French, "dos"). Under his feet is a cushion, such as protected the feet of the King of France when he presided at a lit de justice. The King of France was also covered by a mobile canopy during his coronation, held up on poles by several peers of France. ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Categories [−] Textile arts [+] Beadwork [×] Glossaries of textile arts [+] Indigenous textile art of the Americas [×] Lace [+] Needlework [+] Quilting [+] Ropework [+] Rugs and carpets [+] Sewing [×] Smocking [×] Spinning [+] Tapestries [+] Textile artists [+] Textile arts by region [×] Textile arts portal [+] Textile design [+] Textile museums [+] Textile printing [×] Wearable art [+] Weaving [×] Yarn [+] WikiProject Textile Arts articles [×] Textile arts stubs [×] Textile art templates edit   WikiProjects Parent project Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts Main project Textile Arts WikiProject Participants Related projects WikiProject Fashion  • WikiProject Knots  • WikiProject Sculpture  • WikiProject Visual arts What are WikiProjects? edit   Selected quote I thought with myself some days ago, Here I shall go home to my poor father and mother, and have nothing on my back, that will be fit for my condition; for how should your poor daughter look with a silk night-gown, silken petticoats, cambric head-clothes, fine holland linen, laced shoes that were my lady's; and fine stockings! And how in a little while must these have looked, like old cast-offs, indeed, and I looked so for wearing them! And people would have said, (for poor folks are envious as well as rich,) See there Goody Andrews's daughter, turned home from her fine place! What a tawdry figure she makes! And how well that garb becomes her poor parents' circumstances!--And how would they look upon me, thought I to myself, when they should come to be threadbare and worn out? And how should I look, even if I could purchase homespun clothes, to dwindle into them one by one, as I got them?--May be, an old silk gown, and a linsey-woolsey petticoat, and the like. So, thought I, I had better get myself at once equipped in the dress that will become my condition; and though it may look but poor to what I have been used to wear of late days, yet it will serve me, when I am with you, for a good holiday and Sunday suit; and what, by a blessing on my industry, I may, perhaps, make shift to keep up to. — Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ...Archive/Nominations More... edit   Quality content Featured articles Bronwyn Bancroft Cochineal Good articles English embroidery History of silk Knitta Please William Morris Natural dye Navajo weaving Palestinian costumes Sprang edit   Main topics Textile arts Fundamentals: • Crochet • Embroidery • Knitting • Lace • Needlework • Sewing • Spinning • Textile • Weaving • Yarn Additional topics: Beadwork • Carpet • Clothing • Dyeing • Felt • Fiber • History of clothing and textiles • Linen • Macramé • Patchwork • Quilting • Rug making • Sewing needle • Tapestry • Timeline of clothing and textiles technology • Traditional rug hooking • Wool edit   Things you can do Place the {{WikiProject Textile Arts}} project banner on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. Place the {{Portal|Textile arts}} portal template in the See also section of associated articles. Improve a top priority textile arts article. Assessment: Rate unassessed articles for quality and importance. Cleanup: Tassel, Burlap, More articles for cleanup... Expand: History of textiles and clothing, Casting on (knitting) Original research removal: Clothing, History of knitting Requested articles: Japanese embroidery, Argentella, Battenberg (lace) Requested pictures: Hairpin lace, Point de Gaze, Buratto, Youghal lace, Hollie Point Verify: Clothing, Bobbinet, Braid, Canvas, Cardigan (sweater), Cotton-spinning machinery, Crocheted lace, Damask, Distaff, Dobby loom, Drawn thread work, Dyeing, Hemline, Ikat, Lace, Natural fiber, Neckline, Oilskin, Overlock, Machine embroidery Stubs: Afghan blanket, Emilie Bach, Candlewicking, Dip stitch (knitting), Elongated stitch (knitting), More stubs... edit   Related portals Arts Culture Fashion Visual arts edit   Associated Wikimedia Textile Arts on Wikinews     Textile Arts on Wikiquote     Textile Arts on Wikibooks     Textile Arts on Commons News Quotations Manuals & Texts Images What are portals? · List of portals · Featured portals