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  2. Macramé - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Cavandoli macramé. Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.. The primary knots of macramé are the square (or reef knot) and forms of "hitching": various combinations of half hitches.

  3. The 35 Best Subscription Boxes for Teens - AOL

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    This subscription box is all about art and design, with a focus on hand-crafted decorative items, from hanging macrame planters to punch-needle throw pillows, sculpture and paper marbling.

  4. Textile - Wikipedia

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    Knotting involves tying threads together and is used in making tatting and macrame. [121] [122] Lace: Lace is made by interlocking threads together to create a fine fabric with open holes in the work. Lace can be made by either hand (e.g. needle lace or bobbin lace) or machine. [123] Bobbin lace in progress: 3D Textiles

  5. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Navajo winter hogan with blanket used as a door, 1880–1910. Written records establish the Navajo as fine weavers for at least the last 300 years, beginning with Spanish colonial descriptions of the early 18th century.

  6. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Chancay culture tapestry featuring deer, 1000-1450 CE, Lombards Museum Nivaclé textile pouch, collection of the AMNH. The textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are decorative, utilitarian, ceremonial, or conceptual artworks made from plant, animal, or synthetic fibers by Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

  7. Handicraft - Wikipedia

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    Batik craftswomen in Java, Indonesia Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran Artesanato Mineiro. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials ...

  8. Bobbin lace - Wikipedia

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    Bobbin lace may be made with coarse or fine threads. Traditionally it was made with linen, silk, wool, or, later, cotton threads, or with precious metals. Bess of Hardwick bought red silk, gold, and silver thread for making "bone lace" in 1549, the earliest English reference to this kind of work. [13]

  9. Hand spinning - Wikipedia

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    The Spinner by William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows a woman hand-spinning using a drop spindle.Fibers to be spun are bound to a distaff held in her left hand.. Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn.