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The textiles products are the back bone of Pakistani economy and returns a lot of foreign exchange to the exchequer of Pakistan.
hand knitting dipped in hand made paper, and also lace, cloth, paper and felt trapped in vanishing muslin.
From Adrian Wilson’s collection of textile trademark stamp materials, photographed at his talk for the Type Directors Club, “TEXTile: Typography of the 19th Century Textile Trade”, Jan 28, 2010
Textile photographed at Cupertino Community Center on May 17th, 2010 as part of textile community image collection project. The public was invited to bring in their cultural fabrics to share and to be photographed. The event was sponsored by the Cupertino Library and was part of their Asian Heritage Month programming.
"Rumpled" by Fran Solar; hand-woven copper wire, copper strips. Almonte Textile Museum, Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
vintage style textile art house. Torn, frayed and melted fabrics, vintage mother of pearl buttons, stamped text, handsewn, hand embroidered french knots and cross stitches, vintage key.
** This was a special opportunity for Flickr photographers. Photography is NOT allowed during this exhibit. **
From the HMNS Website:
"Strikingly well-preserved mummies, tall in stature and fair in complexion, have lain in the parched Tarim Basin of western China for 3,800 years. Wearing Western-influenced textiles and possessing surprising technologies and customs, the identity of these extraordinary people is a mystery!
This historic exhibition of 150 objects drawn from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum and the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology in Urumqi, China reveals surprising details about the people who lived along the ancient Silk Road. For the first time ever, three of the more than 100 Caucasian mummies found and preserved in the western China’s inhospitable desert sands are being presented in the United States. An impressive array of objects are included in the exhibition to represent the full extent of the Silk Road, where lavish goods, technologies and ideas between East and West were adopted and exchanged."
Segou, Mali (West Africa)
Winding bobbins with the thread coming off the large spindle, using an old bicycle wheel for the winding. The young girl was there filling bobbins for her father who was one of the weavers
(all male); 2007
Dominic, Judy. "img_1967". Digital Image. Flickr. 16 Feb 2007. 23 Feb 2009. .
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave
Knoxville Museum of Art
WORKING WEAVERS
These logs present a diversity of locations of working weavers from various countries and time periods. Libby O'Bryan was the primary researcher of images. Emily Nachison added images, color corrected, and formatted the images with text. Emily Nachison worked from this image bank to create the display in the exhibition. This compilation will continue to grow.