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iTextilis

New essay series coming from iTEXTILIS: Beyond the Arctic Circle — how textiles and clothes made Arctic exploration possible, tied to the acclaimed 2025 SPITSBERGEN volume. Be part of bringing this untold story to life! ❄️🧵 #textilehistory #Arctic #travel > https://donate-to.ikfoundation.org/fundraising/open-access-to-itextilis-essays

@maru

Did you see JillianEve's new video on spinning flax into linen?

https://youtu.be/jZtdnHlaUg8

I'm just watching it and it's a joy! (As always with her videos)

@handspinning #handspinning #flax @fiberarts #fiberarts #textilehistory

The #PlimothJacket: Bucket list item ☑️

I wrote about the field trip we took to #PlimothPatuxet Museum yesterday.

Some of the photos are here in the blog, but more are posted on my Instagram feed if you are interested.

I could link more crucial backstory on the blog though.

#BobbinLace #17thCenturyFashion #TextileHistory #embroidery

https://www.lacecouvige.com/threadsblog/the-plimoth-jacket-bucket-list-item-checked

My photos are still processing, but here is a close up of a section of the lace and embroidery. It is so fabulous.

Plimoth Jacket, Plimoth Patuxet Museums. #PlimothPatuxet #TextileHistory #BobbinLace #embroidery

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Bucket list item, CHECKED. ☑️

I have been chasing the "Plimoth Jacket" replica for years--since I first found out about it and my #lace group's participation in the project (before I became a lacemaker).

The backstory story [pdf]: pressroom.winterthur.org/pdfs/Plimoth...

#TextileHistory

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pressroom.winterthur.org/pdfs/Plimoth-J...

TEXTILIA LINNAEANA Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade

QUOTES from the world within #Textiles #Art #Fashion #18thcentury #Clothes #Fibre #Ethnography #Travel #Naturalhistory #Geography #Dyes #Textilehistory #Weaving #Trade #Historyofscience #Books @itextilis.eurosky.social

520 pages, richly illustrated, incl. two genuine handmade Tapa cloth samples from Tonga.

EXPLORE > https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/textilia-linnaeana/

PieceWork Magazine call for article pitches. I have written for them, they were good to work with, paid for the museum licenses, etc.

"proposals for articles and projects that spotlight individual textile artists, artisan collectives, and organizations around the world who are actively preserving, sustaining, or revitalizing traditional handicrafts. "

#Makers #textileHistory #craft #lace

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/craft-continued-piecework-fall-2027-call-for-submissions/

Read Nomura's essay and many more in Vanishing Culture.

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #ComputingHistory #TextileHistory

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iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Textile Observations – from an 1841 Plan of Whitby. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/textile-observations-1.html

#textilehistory #map #plan

iTextilis

Did you know? 📚

iTEXTILIS offers free digital iBOOKS, including Viveka Hansen’s groundbreaking Textile Squares & Zigzags, originally published in Swedish. The full iBook is now available under Creative Commons, featuring:

✅ English summary
✅ Translated captions
✅ Records of 1,600+ double interlocked tapestries (rölakan)

In 2019, a limited edition (20 hand-bound copies) with English text was released. Now, with IK v.4, all iBooks are centralised in The iBook Collection for easy access.

🔗 Explore & support free knowledge → https://donate-to.ikfoundation.org/fundraising/open-access-to-itextilis-essays

#TextileHistory #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #WhyDonate

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Double Interlocked Tapestries – Materials and Dyes. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/double-interlocked-tapestries.html

#textilehistory #wool #colour

iTextilis

NEW ESSAY: Textile Substitutes and Additions – Useful Plant Fibres observed by Carl Linnaeus and other 18th-century Swedish Naturalists. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/textile-substitutes-and-additions.html

#textilehistory #plants

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Needlework and Sewing Tools – Traces of Textile Trade in Whitby from the 1840s to 1914. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/needlework-and-sewing-tools.html

#textilehistory #needlework #Whitby

iTextilis

NEW ESSAY: Tapestries & Artworks – A Symbiosis between Collecting, Depicting and Natural History. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/tapestries-artworks.html

#textilehistory #naturalhistory #tapestries

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Mattresses, Bolsters and Bedlinen – at a Manor House in 1758. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/mattresses-bolsters-and-bedlinen.html

#textilehistory #interior #18thcentury

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay | Woollen Stockings – Traditions and Trade in Whitby: 1670s-1910s. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/woollen-stockings.html

#textilehistory #trade #wool

What a rabbit hole ...

https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116745991765132886

I think I'll try the Chantilly lace on page 15 ...

#knitting #fiberarts @knitting @fiberarts #textilehistory

🧶 Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day 🌍, a reminder that preservation is not passive. It's made stitch by stitch.

Check out Mlle. Riego de la Branchardière’s THE KNITTING BOOK (1848), part of our Victorian Knitting Manuals collection 👉 https://archive.org/details/krl00402915/mode/2up

#WWKIPDay #Knitting #TextileHistory #CulturalHeritage #FiberArts

The fragment’s earth-toned yarns—deep brown, ochre, and rust—form a vertical procession of stylized faces, their hollow eyes fixed in silent vigil. This rare survivor of Moche floods may have adorned a mantle, its motifs once framing rituals now lost to time. What does the repetition of these faces suggest about their purpose?

#MocheArt #TextileHistory #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.2.2

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Sericulture and Citrus Fruits – 18th Century Naturalists in the Mediterranean Region and Swedish Gardens. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/sericulture-and-citrus-fruits.html

#textilehistory #18thcentury #garden

The patience required for this, that's absolutely stunning (though it's brocade weave, not embroidery)

https://youtube.com/shorts/-znDxt3eqvI

@fiberarts @weaving #fiberarts #weavingbyhand #textilehistory

Plant dyed textiles - these samples of wool fabric dyed with the available colors of the 13th century hang at the textile dyers workshop in Guedelon

Gorgeous colors.

#fiberarts @fiberarts #textilehistory

iTextilis

NEW ESSAY: 18th & 19th Century Yarn Winders – Textile Tools in Swedish Households. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/18th-19th-century-yarn-winders.html

#textilehistory #yarn #wool

This is an astonishingly great article about historical #embroidery, but also #MaterialsScience and threads and the work of Tricia Wilson Nguyen. She takes an #engineering approach to this work that is so valuable.

My lacemaker friends worked with her on that Plimoth Jacket she refers to. I'll post that video next so you can see it.

#BobbinLace #lace #sewing #TextileHistory

https://egausa.org/interview-with-tricia-wilson-nguyen-uncovering-historical-needlework-traditions/

This is an astonishingly great article about historical #embroidery, but also #MaterialsScience and threads and the work of Tricia Wilson Nguyen. She takes an #engineering approach to this work that is so valuable. #BobbinLace #lace #sewing #TextileHistory egausa.org/interview-wi...

Interview with Tricia Wilson N...

Upcoming talk about lacemakers by the fabulous Elena Kanagy-Loux on June 24 2026. In person at Hillwood Estate Museum in DC, but also on zoom.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #lace #TextileHistory

https://hillwoodmuseum.org/events/fact-or-fabrication-archetype-lacemaker-elena-kanagy-loux

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Historical Reproductions – 18th & 19th Century Dove-tail Tapestry. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/historical-reproductions-4.html

#textilehistory #weaving #colour

iTextilis

Upcoming in the iTEXTILIS essay collection – several textile history topics will be published over the next two months. Read more under ‘Small Big News’ in the latest iMESSENGER from The IK Foundation: https://www.ikfoundation.org/news/imessenger-archive-m5y2026.html

#textilehistory #textiles #18thcentury

iTextilis

If you are interested in exploring more about textile history, my monograph ‘Textilia Linnaeana: Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade’ (520 pages) is available here… https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/textilia-linnaeana/

#textilehistory #textiles #18thcentury

Check out my new long stockings! #fashion #textiles #costumeinstitute #themet #textilehistory #finery #longstocking #whoworeitbest #metgala

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qnikm7qt6cckwztni5p5eto/post/3mkfckvvpaq24

iTextilis

From the Archive – Essay: Indigo Blue Clothes – A European Perspective on East India Voyages: 1740s to 1770s. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/indigo-blue-clothes.html

#textilehistory #clothes #dyes #indigo

iTextilis

NEW ESSAY: Textile Art and Handicraft – Historical Reflections of Beautiful Clothes and Household Objects. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/textile-art-and-handicraft.html

#textiles #textilehistory #weaving

iTextilis

From the Archive: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists (3000 words). https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ribbons-bands-and-cords.html

#textiles #textilehistory #ribbons #naturalists #artists

iTextilis

From the Archive: Natural History and Curiosities – A Case Study of Global Traditions, Textiles and Museums in the 18th Century (1700 words). https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/natural-history-and-curiosities.html

#textile #textilehistory #naturalhistory #museums

This is a mindblowing technique and I'm in awe at the skill and patience of the people doing this craft.

Patan Patola Sari - double ikat weaving technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlSoZsbuD-Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikat#Double_ikat

@weaving @fiberarts #textileart #weaving #textilehistory #fiberarts

🎉 Wow, a dusty old loom is going to rewrite history! 🕸️ Who knew ancient threading could be so revolutionary? 🚀 Meanwhile, our ancestors just hoped for pants that didn’t itch. 🌾✨
https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year-old-loom-that-reveals-key-aspects-of-textile-revolution-in-the-bronze-age.html #dustyloom #ancientinnovation #revolutionaryhistory #threadingtechnology #textilehistory #HackerNews #ngated

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year-old-loom-that-reveals-key-aspects-of-textile-revolution-in-the-bronze-age.html

#HackerNews #textilehistory #ancienttechnology #BronzeAge #archaeology #discoveries #loom

A fire in Bronze Age Spain ~1450 BC destroyed a settlement — and accidentally preserved something almost never found: the actual wooden frame of a loom, still loaded with weights. New study in Antiquity reconstructs it. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #TextileHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bronze-age-loom-preserved-by-fire

WELCOME > https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/the-textile-room/

#textile #textilehistory #fashion #books #art #weaving #trade

#heraldry #arthistory #decorativearts #antiquefinds #textilehistory

Discovery Reveals the World’s Oldest Sewing, Dating Back 12,000 Years.

Archaeologists have identified what may be the world’s oldest known examples of sewing: approximately 12,000-year-old fragments of elk hide discovered in caves in Oregon, USA.

Read more: https://omniletters.com/discovery-reveals-the-worlds-oldest-sewing-dating-back-12000-years/

#Archaeology #AncientHistory #Discovery #IceAge #IndigenousHistory #Prehistory #TextileHistory #ScienceNews #Oregon #HumanOrigins

Fascinating story of a man I've never heard before

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/george-washington-carver/

#fiberarts #crochet #textilehistory @fiberarts @crochet

I've been trying to learn more about the history/origins of #NeedleFelting (making three dimensional objects with wool by tucking or "felting" the fibers together with a needle, often barbed for the purpose).
Any #TextileHistory wizzes or #historian who knows more about this?
It seems so new, but why?
#TextileArts #History #AskFedi

With working out how to restore my old Singer sewing machine I learned quite a bit about the mechnics of those machines - they are technical marvels.

Now I finally understand how a chain stitch machine works.

The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYuyHNLPTQ

@sewing @fiberarts #sewing #fiberarts #TextileHistory

Found a treasure today.

While searching through my craft supplies I found a bag with the last pieces of #handwoven linen from my great (great?) grandmother. I'm not exactly sure if it was my dad's grandma or even a generation before, but family legend says it was handwoven by I've of my ancestors.

Two of the pieces are about large enough to make a small sofa pillow from them, the third is about double the size.

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@fiberarts @weaving #weaving #fiberarts #textilehistory