Showing posts with label coverlets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coverlets. Show all posts

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