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  2. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Pieces of 7,000- to 8,000-year-old fabric have been found with human burials at the Windover Archaeological Site in Florida. The burials were in a peat pond. The fabric had turned into peat, but was still identifiable. Many bodies at the site had been wrapped in fabric before burial. Eighty-seven pieces of fabric were found associated with 37 ...

  3. Category:Textile patterns - Wikipedia

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  4. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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    A photographic image was made of he design with figures, to which Morris or Dearle added a floral background, and a border equally filled with designs of trees and flowers. The full scale image was transferred onto cloth by rubbing with a piece of ivory, and then woven on a loom.

  5. Jacobean embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Early Jacobean embroidery often featured scrolling floral patterns worked in colored silks on linen, a fashion that arose in the earlier Elizabethan era.Embroidered jackets were fashionable for both men and women in the period 1600-1620, and several of these jackets have survived.

  6. List of fabrics - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, braided or knitted from textile fibres

  7. Andean textiles - Wikipedia

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    Complex combinations of coloration and patterning were used to repeat geometric patterns while maintaining visual consistency; Paracas textiles are especially well known for their regular gridlike arrangement of iconographic images. The consistency of scale and shape of these patterns point to the use of counting systems used by textile ...

  8. William Morris wallpaper designs - Wikipedia

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    He created fifty different block-printed wallpapers, all with intricate, stylised patterns based on nature, particularly upon the native flowers and plants of Britain. His wallpapers and textile designs had a major effect on British interior designs, and then upon the subsequent Art Nouveau movement in Europe and the United States. [1]

  9. Kuba textiles - Wikipedia

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    Humanity and life lie at the intersection of the natural and the supernatural, according to the underlying Kuba myth. As a result, rectilinear lines in Kuba art depict natural patterns. Both in art and nature, these lines occasionally disrupt what we take to be geometric order. [5] The improvised patterns are mostly made using three methods: