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2. Textiles of Sumba - Wikipedia

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   Lau are the tubular skirts worn by women. The same symbols that appear on a man's hinggi reappear on the women's skirts, but the range of techniques used extend beyond ikat alone. These techniques include designs worked by a supplementary weave warp, embroidery, the application of beads and shells, and, occasionally, tufting with supplementary ...

3. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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   Patchwork blocks are pieced squares [11] made up of colored shapes that repeat specific shapes to create patterns within the square or block of, say, light and dark or contrasting colors . The blocks can all repeat the same pattern, or blocks can have several different patterns. The patchwork blocks are typically around 8–10 in 2 (52–65 cm ...

4. African textiles - Wikipedia

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   The patterns used range from geometric tribal motifs to figurative patterns of humans and animals. Clamp resist dyeing is used by the Kuba. Raphia panels are folded to form a cube and then clamped and dip dyed. The clamps are removed after dyeing to reveal the resist pattern in natural raphia against the usually black dyed background.

5. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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   Seminole seamstresses, upon gaining access to sewing machines in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, invented an elaborate appliqué patchwork tradition. Seminole patchwork , for which the tribe is known today, came into full flower in the 1920s.

6. The 14 Best Christmas Tree Skirts for Making Your Tree ... - AOL

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7. Mola (art form) - Wikipedia

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   In 1924, Lady Brown refers to the dress of the medicine man/ Kantules as "dressed up the knees in long covered with cabalistic characters...all worked into, or let into, the cloth in a form of patchwork." [7] As an inspiration for their designs, the Guna first used the geometrical patterns which have been used for body painting before.