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Textile sites

These are just some of the many sites related to textile crafts and education. If you've found any cool textile sites on the Web, let us know by sending email to youngembroiderers@hiraeth.com. We check these links regularly, but if you find any that are broken please tell us.

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textile crafts | textiles in history | children's sites | projects | design | beads | reference | organisations | education | exam boards | universities and colleges | various craft sites | the embroiderers' A--Z

textile crafts

  • Wool Works - information about knitting, spinning, dyeing
  • Phiala's string pages - tablet weaving, medieval braids and other historical techniques
  • Needlepoint from About.com - needlepoint news, projects, resources - building a 'community of stitchers'
  • Embroidery - images and text from the current issue, both contemporary and historical embroidery.
  • Quilting with Children - many projects, techniques and resources

    • textiles in history

  • Tapestries homepage - the history of woven tapestries
  • Fashion Museum - large collection of contemporary and historical dress, in Bath
  • Costume and textile museum links
  • Needlework Samplers - includes a guide to sampler symbolism, history, information, links and more
  • Fabric University - Fibre History - the development of natural and manmade fibres, from FabricLink
  • ArtLex on textile - links to worldwide historical and contemporary textiles, with notes on construction
  • The Textile Industry - from the Spartacus Internet Encyclopaedia of British History 1700-1950

    • children's sites

  • Quilts, quilters, quilting and patchwork in fiction - quilts in fiction for children and young adults
  • EAC Youth Embroiderers - colourful, exciting site from the Canadian youth embroidery organisation
  • Young Yarn User - creative, fun things to do with yarn and fibre
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    projects

  • Shibori fabric dyeing - colour images of Cozy Bendesky making Shibori dyed fabric
  • Cheryl's crocheting craft page - snowflakes and scrunchies
  • Textiles otherwise - a small collection of projects from home-educating families
  • STITCH with the Embroiderers' Guild - bank of projects from the magazine, good resource for GCSE, AS, A2
  • Workshop on the Web - online magazine exploring contemporary techniques. Free areas include taster issue and gallery reviews. Full access by subscription.
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    beads

  • Beadwrangler's Focus on Beading - lots of beading links
  • NativeTech: beadwork - Native American beadwork - meanings, history, techniques
  • The Bead Society of Great Britain

    • reference

  • Internet Centre for Canadian Fashion and Design - resources at this extensive site include an online dictionary of fabric types and properties and a large collection of design-related links
  • The Wonderful Stitches page of textile resources on the Web - many sites, organised into categories, which include Museums and Galleries, Technique Resource, Design Inspiration and Historic Needlework
  • Sharon Boggon's Stitch Dictionary - a fascinating textile shareware project
  • Fabric University - Fiber Characteristics - information about the properties of fibres, from FabricLink
  • ArtLex Dictionary of Visual Art - 'for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education' - unmissable
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    organisations

  • Embroiderers' Guild
  • International Feltmakers Association
  • Poole Bobbin Lace Circle
  • The Bead Society of Great Britain
  • Computer Textile Design Group
  • Textile Study Group

    • universities and colleges

  • Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
  • Edinburgh College of Art - Design & Applied Arts Textiles
  • The London College of Fashion
  • Manchester Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Design
  • Royal College of Art
  • Heriot-Watt University School of Textiles
  • Fabric University - Textile University Links - links to University textile departments, mostly US, from FabricLink

    • various craft sites

  • The Crafts Council UK - exhibitions, events, crafts shops, services to craftspeople
  • Kaboose.com Craft Ideas - craft projects
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    applique

  • Hmong textiles - intricate needlework and applique designs of the Hmong people of Vietnam and Laos
  • Applique Basics

    • blackwork (contributed by Stephanie Mawdsley)

  • Blackwork taster
  • The Blackwork Embroidery Archives
  • Tips on Double-Running Stitch
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    chain stitch

  • chain stitch from Sharon Boggon's great Stitch Dictionary

    • colonial knots

  • The Colonial knot - a substitute for the French knot
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    fabrics

  • CV's fabric series: Silk - history, types, uses

    • friendship bands

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