Hand Weaving

Guatemala is home to a centuries-old weaving tradition through which indigenous women assert a sense of “belongingness” to family and community. The women and their families are descendants of the ancient Maya Indians, and the tools of their trade are cotton yarn, the backstrap loom, and time-proven patterns and techniques. Each village and region is identifiable for its own weaving design and colors. Techniques and designs are passed from mother to daughter and traditional clothes are still preferred by most. Some believe that the different patterns existed before the Spaniards arrived. Others believe they were brought from Europe. It is known that the conquistadors used the clothing to label people and control the populations. The traditional technique was to wrap the threads on a warping board, and then mount them on back-strap loom where a panel was woven. Panels were decorated with brocade designs depending on the textile tradition of the weaver’s community as well as her personal taste and skills. Finally, the woven panels were sewn together to make a garment (Guatemalan Culture).

The first art piece consists of a beautiful curtain fragment of coptic textile from the late Roman and early Byzantine 4th century. Woven textiles were commonly incorporated in Byzantine clothing tapestries, furniture coverings and curtains. The most expensive textiles were made of silk. Inexpensive textiles like the curtain fragment were made of linen and wool. Although dyed textiles were rare, they were colored with plant based dyes like saffron or minerals (Carrol, pg.57). The majority of textiles were created by the horizontal two-beam loom later to be replaced by the vertical loom and domed spindle whorl.

Kashmiri design, with its traditional name “Kashidakari”, is one of the most popular traditional embroideries in India, which has global reputation alike. It is as beautiful and captivating as the Kashmir itself.

Native Americans are the indigenous people of the North American continent and the cultural traditions and art forms are unique to these regional groups. The people in these groups have several names and the first adopted name Indian by Spanish explorers proved erroneous, however, now accepted names include either American Indian or Native American. I will refer to these groups as Native Americans or by their tribal affiliation. There are diverse tribal groups original to North America who lived on the Great Plains, in the Woodlands, on the Northwest coast, and in the Southeast or the Southwest regions. Various Native American tribes created art forms such as the Apache, Cherokee, Pueblo, and Hopi communities. In my research, I found that the Navajo also contributed in many ways to Native American art through making jewelry, beading, drawing, painting, sculpting, carving, and weaving. These art works provided their tribe notoriety with countless “years of experience through their creativity and sense of design”, lending to an “astonishing volume and variety of artwork which has created a lasting legacy”, per NativeAmerican-Art.com (2010). Understandably, art comes in various forms and from various cultures, but the Native American Navajo tribe contributed vastly and merits mention for its beautiful contributions. Therefore, I

2) Why might Dixie Weaving employees choose not to cooperate with the consultants at this stage in the project?

The Indian textiles chart showed how India used machines to produce greater yarn and cloth amounts in 1914 as compared to the production in 1884. As well it demonstrated how the amount of people using machine made textiles had greatly increased opposed to hand made textiles (Doc 1). In 1916 Radhakamal Mukerjee, an Indian economist, explains how that handwoven textiles cannot keep up with the machine made textiles, and therefore is on a decline (Doc 6). This identifies how India is moving towards

The book "Of My Own hands Weaving by Mary Boscoletta is a story about GIna and Col (aka Mr. Cummings) begins a romance after meeting on a school bus. Throughout the book, Gina and Col learn about each other through sad love songs. in the end, they both have a beautiful happily ever after . I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. The romance was very simple it was not too sexualized because alot of romance books are becoming to erotic

"Wicker" and "Splint" basketry, using reed, cane, willow, oak, and ash.” what do I like about weaving? I like it because it’s really useful. We can use at a organizer and not look so boring and if we use a weaved basket it’s organized, its colorful and not boring. basket is a container which is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers, which can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane. While most baskets are made from plant materials, other materials such as horsehair, baleen, or metal wire can be used. They used basket weaving was practiced by many different tribes for

By the 21st century, the advancement in technology has forever changed the way clothing is made. “The impact of CAD software on everyday clothing is becoming more prevalent as the software is linked to 3D printing technology.” This saying, clothing has come to be an easy thing to come by and still is advancing. “Machines for home printing are becoming more affordable… the ability to create customized clothing is becoming more of a reality as technology evolves.” As technology evolves, it will impact the way people shop for clothes and how their clothes are

For the event of a strategic workforce designing, there are some factors that require attention to be thought of. These factors embody correct business metrics, workforce strategy, structure operations and conjointly the relevant of federal laws and rules. Considering the situation of Weave Tech the business measurements incorporate deals, benefit, generation insights, and livelihood maintenance. Concerning the sales, inside subsequent 3 years, it continuously must be inflated. As an example, the corporation must incorporate absolutely the newest arrived shirts and clothing’s and conjointly the weather sensitive clothing’s that are attaining demand within the existing market. The technological team of Weave Tech should come up with such styles

The term “e-Textile”, was introduced to students. This is a term which means—electronic textile. Examples of e-Textile are products such as clothing (astronaut suit, certain headwear etc.) which have electronic components embedded.

I also came to know different patterns of quilts that brought into culture through combining different styles and introducing new ones. These are about ‘piecing quilts’, ‘diamond shaped pieces’ for quilts and ‘the rising sun’ styles. Since the different styles were prevailed at different cultures, women from different tribes merge designs to create a new one. The designs are creative arts of textile from various parts of the world and every quilter had ability to create a unique one like, different colors, patterned fabrics, solid fabrics and placement of fabric pieces, use of embellishments over

Fig 3 is done by Ann Richards this piece of is completely hand woven. This is on the commercial one of kind market; I don’t think it’s aimed at a designer market. Whereas in fig 4, this piece was created by Miyake. Miyake piece was created by using heat-sensitive thread and the ‘application of intense amounts of steam to a puckered check’ (Singer, 2016). Miyake is marketing his work for his designer clients. Miyake’s technique is very different to the way Richards creates her work but they have very similar final outcomes. In the terms of that, they both have these uniform pleats running through the

According to Kamaladevi (1975, p. 1) handicrafts are in close knit with human relationship. They are more ingenious than the language. In her words

Technological advances during the past decade have opened many new doors for the Textile and Apparel industries, especially in the area of rapid prototyping and related activities.