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Weaving & Spinning: Techniques - -

Tapestry Weaving

also: Navajo Weaving;  Rug Weaving; Rug Hooking
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Associations/Networks

• ITNET - International Tapestry NETwork; Anchorage, AK.
• Tapestry Guilds list of lists, by Fibrearts.com
• American Tapestry Alliance ( ATA )
• Ross Center for Tapestry Studies

CyberGalleries showing Tapestries & Wall Hangings for Inspiration

see also Museums/Galleries/Exhibitions

• Bayeux Tapestry; The embroidery that is roughly 20 inches tall and 230 feet long. It tells the story of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066
• Collins Redman's Gallery
• Lao Textiles Exhibition: Collection of Silk Wall Hangings
• Lenkoran Gallery, Antique Caucasian, Persian and Anatolian tribal rugs
• O'Bannon Oriental Carpets - Folklife, O'Bannon Oriental Carpets
• Photos of Weaving and Buying Afghan and Balouch Rugs....,by Jacobsen Rugs
• A Timeless history of tapestry and wall hangings, by Tapestries
• Vatican Tapestry Page
• When Silk was Gold, Central Asian and Chinese Textiles in The Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art - October 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998

Images/Art

• The Lady of Shalott Weaving   from Tennyson, Alfred.  Decorated by Howard Pyle (1853-1911),. New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1881
• Posters

Tapestry Resources

Glossary

see also Useful Information or   Glossary

• Rug Symbols And Their Respective Meanings @Rugsonline.com
• Rug Terms Glossary @ Rugsonline.com

E-Zines

• Hali : The International Magazine Of... Antique Carpet & Textile Art
• International Tapestry Journal
• Tapestry

More Information

• A Guide to Oriental Rugs.... @ Jacobsen Rugs
• History : Weaving in the Southwest & Rio Grande Weaving @ Chimayo Weavers.com
• Jozan Magazine on Oriental Rugs
• Marla Mallett Textiles and Tribal Oriental Rugs
  • Basic Tribal and Village Weaves
  • Egyptian Village Tapestries: The Wissa Wassef Experiment
• Oriental Rug and Textile Societies @ The World Wide Weave
• Oriental Rug Review ; A Bimonthly Journal of Oriental Rugs and Other Textiles
• Rugnotes, by J Barry O'Connell
• Tapestry Links @ Meanderings
• Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia

Care

• on rug care and cleaning @ Jacobsen Rugs
• Rug Care Guidelies @ Rugsonline.com
• Rug Stain Removal Procedure Handbook @ Rugsonline.com

Techniques

• An Analysis of Anni Alber's 3-Ply Tapestry @ Softweave
• Basic Tribal and Village Weaves, by Marla Mallett
• The Egyptian Tapestry Weaves, by Marla Mallett
• Rug Knot Diagrams, Persian or Senneh Knot, by Rugsonline.com
• Soumak Weaving for the Beginner... @ Gleason's Fine Woolies Ranch

Tapestry Looms

• How To Make Your Own Portable Tapestry Loom @ Vermiro

Publications/exhibition catalogs

• Oriental Rug Review
• Peruvian Tapestries
• The Tapestries Home Page , a timeless history of tapestry and wallhangings

CyberStudios of Tapestry Weavers

• Anansi Weavery; a weaving studio of Teresa A. O'Neill. Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
• Ancient Arts for the new Millennium - Stanley Bulbach
• Anna Adam
• Birgit's Tapestry
• Jacqueline James Handwoven Rugs
• Jason Coiingwood
• Pat Bloor, Tapestry Weaver
• Peter Collingwood
• Marilou Schultz Weaver of Navajo Rugs
• Nancy Klos
• Stanley Bulbach; handwoven art for the wall
• Soumak Tapestries by Joanna Gleason
• Tapestries by Sarah C. Swett
• Tea Okropiridze - Goblin Tapestry
• Vermiro Tapestries - Vera L. Hazelgrove. Australia