Ancient weaving

There were looms in Ancient Greece. At the archaeological site, Akrotiri, we visited in the Island of Santorini we read there were hundreds of loom weights were found . At a museum we saw some we…

The weaving contest between me and Athena. Just because you're a Goddess does not mean you weave better than I. I shall challenge you and Nike will be on my side.

This is an image from an ancient plate showing a warp-weighted loom with a patterned weave.

A quipu (khipu) was a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records and communicate information using string and knots. In the absence of an alphabetic writing system, this...

Using tools leftover from ancient spindles and looms, textile archaeologists are starting to understand the fabrics of the past.

Linda Wallace Q So who is Linda Wallace? First and foremost, I’m an artist. Before throwing caution to the wind and going to art school in my forties, I was a registered nurse, a business owner in the Canadian High Arctic Islands, a traveller and lived aboard a sailboat for three years. From childhood, I’ve been attracted to cloth and fibre, to stitching, spinning and knitting, to drawing. During my four years at the Alberta College of Art and Design, I explored Japanese natural dye…

A beautiful and rare collection of ancient Egyptian Coptic textiles dating from 4th-8th century. These textiles were made in Egypt by Christians of Greco-Byzantine-Roman Egypt. The Coptic Christians migrated to ... | rugrabbit.com

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