See also our list of Online Learning, and our list of other Fiber Organizations.
Here’s a collection of odds and ends from various different sources.
Rosalie Neilson pointed us to this YouTube video on the One World Kimono Project, which features some amazing textile work including weaving and dyeing.
Maiwa.com – Founded in 1986 Charllotte Kwon. They run a retail store on Granville Island in the heart of Vancouver, and have also become a School of Textiles, a Foundation, and a substantial online presence, working primarily with artisans in India.
Haptic and Hue – Haptic & Hue explores the way in which cloth speaks to us and the impact it has on our lives. It looks at how fabric traditions have grown up and the innovations that underpin its creation. It thinks about the skills that go into constructing it and what it means to the people who use it. It looks at the different light textiles cast on the story of humanity.
Handweaving.net – Digital resources for all weavers: over 76,000 drafts, thousands of historic weaving documents, weaving tools, and more.
Linton Tweeds – Supplying couture woven fabrics to the fashion industry since 1912.
Textile Center – A national center for fiber art, Textile Center’s mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art.
Portland Textile Month – The Portland TextileX Month Festival was founded and organized to foster cross-pollination among textile enthusiasts, artists, businesses, schools, and cultural organizations. They create programming and provide an open platform to share histories, knowledge, commerce, experiences, and practices, across cultures and generations.
Textile Hive – “Textile Hive is an empowering platform for the preservation and dissemination of textile knowledge and cultural material both in person and Online. Throughout the project, we strived to seamlessly combine the physical, digital, and contextual aspects of the textile collection.”‘
Marshfield School of Weaving – “The Marshfield School of Weaving preserves a millennia-old weaving tradition, offering contemporary weavers time-proven methods for efficient, quality workmanship. From our home in rural Vermont we welcome students of all experience levels to become a part of a vital and living weaving heritage.”
University of Arizona On-Line Digital Archive – The On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics contains material on weaving, basketry, lace, and related subjects.
SeiZenn – Band Weaving Pattern Editor
Tim’s Rudimentary Treadle Reducer – This site is a web front-end to a program for taking a weaver’s tie-up draft and attempting to find a tie-up for producing the same pattern using a loom with fewer treadles (a skeleton tie-up). The original tie-up is assumed to require only one treadle to be depressed at a time; the reduced tie-up may require 2 treadles to be pressed at once.
The Story of Our Wool Fabric – Video from JG Switzer on Vimeo.