Monday, February 6, 2012

Weaving

The Pattern Shop in Forest Mill, Selkirk, Scotland, 1900,  http://scottishtextileheritage.org.uk/imageGallery/image.asp?intID=10#


The National Museum of the American Coverlet,  http://www.coverletmuseum.org/default.htm





Detail Spanish silk lampas textile, circa 14th century.
Abbegg-Stiftung Collection; published in Mittelalterliche Textilien I, Otavsky, 1995, catalog number 224.
http://www.weavingartmuseum.org/animals/01_forward_detail2.html

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Cloth woven from undyed spider silk. Watch the video at the American Museum of Natural History website: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/spidersilk/

Spider Silk

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