#textiles

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?

#seriously if any textile historians have answers i'd love to find out! #knitting isn't even hard to derive from weaving. just turn the warp on its side and use a hook to pull up a column of loops #repeat a few times and boom you have knit fabric #weaving #knitting #crochet #textiles #jlrrt speaks

[itscolossal]

In Ernesto Neto’s Largest Installation to Date, the World Is a Crocheted Ship Moving to a Single Rhythm

#installation #crochet #textiles #history

[heaveninawildflower]

Pieced Quilt (Friendship Sampler Strips) 1843 by Lizzie C. Jones.

Chintzes, calicoes and white cotton.

SAAM.

#textiles #quilt #quilting #decorative arts #needlework

[fashion-from-the-past]

La Mode Illustree 1894

#historical fashion #fashion #historical #history #historical clothing #historical dress #long dress #textiles #victorian #victorian era #victorian clothing #1890s dress #1890s art #1890s fashion #1800s dress #1800s art #1800s fashion #19th century #19th century fashion #high fashion #old fashioned #dress #gown #fashion plate #histocial magazine #fashion magazine #fashion dress #victorian history #victorian dress #the gilded age

[handweavers]

i have so many mini-bundles of hand dyed and blended wool from various dye and carding experiments and i'm trying to spin them up to make more room in my stash. these yarns are roughly akin to fingering weight. i like spinning small amounts of yarn at a time unless i need a lot of a specific fibre for a project, if i spin the same colour for too long i get bored (< has adhd)

#textiles #mine

[kbuty]

“MAMA NIPE RADHI KUISHI NA WATU KAZI”

English Translation: “Mother give me pleasure, living with people is hard”

#textiles #blue #kiswahili #swahili #east africa #east african #African #african art

[umabloomer]

Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

#pesach #passover #textiles #jewish textiles

[xxx-ang3l-w1th-a-sh0tgun-xxx]

life is strange patch that i made for my jacket :)

#life is strange #embroidery #sewing #art #textiles #lis #life is strange 2 #life is strange before the storm #lis bts #lis before the storm #max caulfield #chloe price

[hornshaving]

Pineapple Quilt Variations

#textiles #quilt #pineapple #auction finds

[ilikeit-art]

LEEAH JOO

Korean-American painter Leeah Joo’s work is inspired by the enigmatic and hidden. In her illusionist paintings, she teases our predisposition to probe and uncover. Intriguing parcels in her Pojagi series are enveloped by a lavish, traditional Korean wrapping cloth and beckon to be unpacked. The richly detailed paintings of lacey drapery in her Parrhasius series present an open-ended narrative, inviting us to question what lies behind the curtain. Joo studied painting and art history at Indiana University in Bloomington and received her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art, Her paintings have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and South Korea. She is the recipient of notable awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, George Sugarman Foundation, Connecticut Commission on Arts and the Puffin Foundation. Currently, Leeah Joo lives and paints in Middlebury, Connecticut and teaches at Southern CT State University and Paier College.

#painting art #insane #beautiful paintings #artwork #leeah joo #creative #curtains #textiles #fabrics

[gael-garcia]

The Palestinian (1977)

#the palestinian 1977 #vanessa redgrave #gaza #ramallah #tulkarm #ayn ghazal #jerusalem #bethlehem #haifa #jaffa #documentary #screencaps #post #history #tatreez #artistry #jerusalem and tulkarem my favess #textiles #art

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Today I am thinking about weaving.

I can knit and crochet, but those crafts didn't exist in Roman times. Any historically accurate Roman cloth must be woven. So when a little potholder loom jumped into my shopping basket for 50 cents, it felt like a sign I should learn.

One potholder that was 50% yarn and 50% weird gaps later, I looked up a tutorial, and realized why the damn thing was 50 cents. I needed a better, more adaptable loom. And, because I am a cheapskate and slightly loony, I decided to make one instead of buying it.

So, how does this thing work?

First, you string the warp threads up and down, around the pegs. Here, I made a zigzag shape. Then, you use a needle or shuttle to weave more yarn over and under the warp, horizontally, back and forth. This produces woven fabric.

Some looms weave from the top, some from the bottom. This Greek urn shows two weavers working from the top. The left weaver uses a rod to compact the woven fabric upward, keeping it even and sturdy. The right weaver is passing an oval-shaped shuttle through the warp threads to form another row.

Most Roman looms would have looked like this, with the finished cloth at the top. Unlike my looms, these are warp-weighted. That means you keep the warp yarns taut by hanging weights at the bottom, rather than through a bottom row of pegs.

Warp-weighted looms also have a big advantage over my little potholder loom: you can easily create multiple sheds.

A "shed" is a temporary gap between lifted strands and non-lifted strands. Instead of having to go over and under each strand individually, you raise the entire shed, then pull the shuttle or needle straight through. This saves lots of time! Then, to weave the next row, you close the shed, lift up a different set of threads to create a new shed, and send the shuttle/needle through the other direction.

On a warp-weighted loom, the sheds are opened by loops called heddles (H), which are attached to a heddle rod (G). When the rod is down, shed (1) is open (middle diagram). When you pull the rod up, shed (1) closes and shed (2) opens instead (right diagram). Most warp-weighted looms also have a pair of forks you can rest the heddle rod on, to free your hands.

Here, there are three heddle rods and sets of forks, the heddles are white, and the warp thread is red. This gives you four different sheds, and the potential to weave very complex patterns indeed. Not bad for a device invented over 6500 years ago!

I liked the multiple heddle-rod design so much, I tried incorporating it into my DIY loom, too. I've tested both yarn and paperclips as heddles:

I actually got both sheds and heddle-rods working, too. Which is pretty cool for a lap loom - every other lap loom I found only has one shed, so you have to go over-under the individual threads on alternate rows.* More time-consuming. However, the sheds here are narrow, and I'll need a smaller and smoother shuttle to pass through them smoothly. This wouldn't be an issue on a warp-weighted loom, where the warp hangs freely downward, and can move more flexibly with the heddles.

Anyway. I may get a "real" loom at some point, but I wanted to build one first, and I think it gave me more appreciation for just how resourceful ancient weavers were. They created technology, clothing, and artwork out of very basic materials, and civilization depended on these skills.

Now, I need to go finish the...whatever the hell it will be. Big thanks to Wikipedia and to the lovely Youtubers who make this craft easier to learn. I think it'll be a lot of fun.

(*Edit - found out a rotating heddle bar can make two sheds on a lap loom! Exciting!!)

#jlrrt essays #weaving #textiles

[horselessheadperson]

Listen I'm a little drunk but... yarn crafts are so important. Textile arts are the backbone of society. All of us take our clothing and accessories and upholstery for granted and it's honestly shocking

I used to buy affordable t-shirts and they were comfy and nice, now I buy them in the same price range and they're sandpaper. They don't wick away moisture and the print comes undone after two washes. I buy denim and the crotch falls apart in months. I read about how modern Singer sewing machines are disappointing and then look at the delicate machining and the beautiful finishes on my 1857 machine and wonder if this is progress?!

Reblog if you're desperate for clothing that doesn't feel like sandpaper or if you like machines that go thunk instead of going obsolete in two years

#textiles #yarn crafts #textile crafts #sewing #clothing #fashion #fast fashion #planned obsolescence

[blue-nebraska]

ID: three fish embroidered on an upholstery sample with a design that looks like coral. the fish are embroidered so they appear to be swimming in between the coral. the colors are shades of olive green and beige.

#art #textiles #fish #embroidery #hand embroidery #described

[fashion-from-the-past]

La Mode Illustree 1890

#historical fashion #historical #fashion #history #historical clothing #historical dress #long dress #textiles #victorian #victorian era #fashion plate #histocial magazine #fashion magazine #magazine #1890s dress #1890s art #1890s fashion #1800s dress #1800s art #1800s fashion #19th century fashion #19th century #old fashioned #high fashion #dress #dresses #victorian clothing #victorian dress #victorian history #the gilded age

[kharacore]

jenny holzer

#love core #girl core #lovecore #girlcore #contemporary art #contemporary #contemporarypoetry #poetry #abstract art #artwork #abstract #nature poetry #jenny holzer #weird core #ocean core #corecore #boy core #nature core #textile art #textiles #graphic design #text post #text art