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- Homestead Weaving Studio - Family-operated business carrying weaving, spinning, and knitting supplies and equipment and household items. Also offering small dye runs of handpainted yarns for weavers and knitters and rovings for spinning and custom weaving.
- Weaving: Art and Lore - Examines cross-cultural weaving, cosmic webs, spinning, spindles, fabrics, and ethnic costume; it also explores Grandmother Spider Woman, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, and other myths and fairytales on weaving from around the world.
- Hugo Weaving V for Vendetta Movie Interview - Variety keeps this Aussie weaving on his toes. By Paul Fischer at the Toronto Film Festival.
- Elkhorn Mountains Weaving Studio - Swedish Glimakra floor and drawlooms, shuttles, warping reels, skein winders and other weaving accessories. Also information on weaving, looms, equipment, and techniques.
- Danish Weaving Center - Along with partnered China International Academy for Weaving and Embroidery. Lists courses of varying levels and subjects, study tours, tuition and registration information.
- Ralph Griswold's Digital Weaving Archive - A collection of out-of-print documents on weaving, textile manufacture, design and pattern.
- Chilkat Weavings - Alaskan Native artist Clarissa Hudson tells of her apprenticeship with Tlingit Indian master Chilkat weaver Jennie Thlunaut and displays her own Chilkat weavings and Ravenstail weaving.
- Saori Hand-weaving of New England - A site promoting the form of weaving from Japan known as Saori. Lessons available in Worcester, MA.
- IndieLondon: V For Vendetta - Hugo Weaving Interview - The actor talks about his role as V and his penchant for small Australian films.
- Omkar Engineering Works - India. Manufacturer of replacement parts for sulzer projectile weaving machine. Specialist in spare parts, accessories of sulzer looms and textile weaving machinery.
Wikipedia Articles
- Basket weaving - Basket weaving (or basket making, basketry, or basketmaking) is the process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers into a basket. People with the profession of weaving baskets are basketmakers.
- Tablet weaving - Tablet Weaving (often card weaving in the United States) is a weaving technique where tablets, also called 'cards', are used to create the shed the weft is passed through. It is generally used to make narrow work such as belts or straps.
- Inkle weaving - Inkle weaving is a type of weaving where the shed is created by manually raising or lowering the warp yarns, some of which are held in place by fixed heddles on a loom known as an inkle. Though inkle weaving was brought to the United States of America (US) in the 1930s, the inkle ...
- Weaving (mythology) - The theme of weaving in mythology is ancient, and its lost mythic lore probably accompanied the early spread of this art. Westward of Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, weaving is a mystery within woman's sphere, and where men have become the primary weavers in this part of the world, it is possible that they have usurped the archaic role.
- Jacquard weaving - Jacquard weaving makes possible in almost any loom the programmed raising of each warp thread independently of the others. This brings much greater versatility to the weaving process, and offers the highest level of warp yarn control.