Additional Inspiration

Business of Craft. The Business of Craft Podcast (sponsored by Stitchcraft Marketing) is a lively show where our host Leanne Pressly interviews business leaders and entrepreneurs of fiber arts, fabric, sewing and other creative companies so you can learn to craft a better business.
Long Thread Podcast. The artists and artisans of the fiber world come to you in the Long Thread Podcast. Each episode features interviews with your favorite spinners, weavers, needleworkers, and fiber artists from across the globe.
MAFA Movie Night. Technically not a podcast, but the MidAtlantic Fiber Association hosts monthly movie nights on zoom, often focusing on specific fiber artists.
Tales of Textiles. Haptic and Hue’s Tales of Textiles, hosted by handweaver, Jo Andrews, are an invitation to explore a world of colour and touch.
Textiles & Tea. Technically not a podcast, but The Handweavers Guild of America records weekly conversations with fiber artists.
Two Ewes Fiber Adventures. Kelly and Marsha came at yarn and fiber from different directions, but both love it. Marsha is an accomplished knitter, learning to dye yarn. Kelly is a spinner who knits and weaves. Fiber is one of the many shared interests after over 30 years of friendship. The show is about our adventures in knitting, spinning, dyeing and other fiber arts.
Weave. The Weave Podcast, by Gist Yarns, brings together a community of weavers and makers, farmers and mill owners, loom manufacturers, textile artists, and sustainability experts, to tell the stories of the threads that bind us together.

Fiber Arts Around the World

Rug and Textile Appreciation Morning: Color Theory for Oriental Rug Lovers on Vimeo
Longtime collector Wendel Swan introduces color theory—demonstrating how the selection and juxtaposition of colors in textiles leads us to perceive and appreciate colors in ways that are entirely different than what we might imagine.
The Textiles of Sardinia https://sardinianarts.com/
Andean Textile Arts: Textile Traditions of the Andes – This is the group presented at a guild meeting
Dyeing with Carmine: Guatemalan Women Earn Income from Carmine, a Traditional Red Dye Made from Bugs | Heifer International
Tlingit Weaving: The Artistry of Tlingit Weaving – YouTube
4700 Looms! The history of Woodside Mill, a 119-year-old textile mill-turned-modern living community in Greenville, SC | GVLtoday (6amcity.com)
Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make – BBC Future
Ancient Handwoven Textiles in Florida
Chasing their dreams! Garo hills women weave water hyacinth into hand woven artifacts
Quilts! Check out the beautiful quilts at these 2 sites
- Artist Talk – Janet Swigler
- Amazing quilts!
Donegal Tweed (1957) Check out this video showing how Donegal Tweeds are created. Also check out the related videos listed below this one on YouTube!
Burkina Faso – Ethical Fashion Initiative. One of the most important cotton producers on the African continent, Burkina Faso has a strong tradition of textile production.
Weaving a brighter future for plastic in Burkina Faso As the sun beats down on a traditional loom in Burkina Faso’s morning heat, a curious shiny material starts to emerge.
African Textiles. African textiles are the major form of expression that Africans use to define themselves. They have used cloth not only for personal adornment but also as a powerful medium of communication for many centuries.
NC 5th Generation Black Farmer flips the story of cotton. Black Cotton flips history of crop, owned by young Black farmer who founded Black Cotton in 2016.
Canada Craft Year 2020 – Surface Design Association Surface Design Association
The History of Ikat. https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a34545471/what-is-ikat/
Khanjar lampi lace work in process. Notice her feet!
Woven Sculptures from Nature. Every creation begins with a walk in the woods. Check out NC Basket Maker, Matt Tommey. http://www.matttommey.com/
Visiting a Weaving Workshop in Romania. Millennial Andrei Vladimir gives us a tour of his loom weaving workshop in Romania.
Weaving Vibrant Patterns in Romania. Traditional weaving vibrant patterns in the Romanian village of Drăguș, Brașov County, Transylvania. Local loom weaver Rogozea Ana explains the art of hand picking the pattern for a traditional towel with motifs specific to her village. She’s weaving on a 2 harness horizontal floor loom.
Gallery exhibit at Haywood Community College. Our member, Deb Bartz has a piece on display.
Kerala’s skilled hand-weavers struggle to survive the rising tides of modernity. The Indian-born, US-based filmmaker Natasha Nair’s short documentary In the Wake brings viewers inside the colourful and tactile world of a weaving community in Kerala.
Thousand Islands Arts Center. Another place to visit when we can. Thousand Islands Arts Center, Clayton, NY
Stockholm Silk Museum. Even though we can’t visit right now, look at this silk weaving museum in Stockholm.
The Stirling Castle Tapestries. The Stirling Tapestry project is a 12 year project to reweave the Hunt of the Unicorn series of tapestries for Stirling Castle.
Using non traditional fibers:
- Baskets woven with seaweed
- Baskets from kelp
Complexity. The ‘Complexity’ virtual exhibition, which has just opened, is open to all until 1st September. Such a wonderful range of exciting pieces. A great catalogue too, which you can download.
Ruth Miller ~ Fiber Artist. Gulf Coast fiber artist, Ruth Miller, weaves her life story into the beautiful and unique portraits she creates.
New Zealand Textile Designer Elizabeth Eakins. Her background in historic preservation led Eakins to work with the Metropolitan Museum and Gracie Mansion from 1979 to 81, restoring existing carpets and reproducing others.
Wooden Figurines ‘Weave’ at Tiny Looms Placed in Ancient Grave | Live Science. Wooden Figurines ‘Weave’ at Tiny Looms Placed in Ancient Grave. By Laura Geggel 19 April 2017. Shares. The largest loom of the four looms (left) is 33 inches long, 10 inches wide and 20 inches.
The story of the Crossnore Weaving School in western North Carolina!
Outstanding Exhibits on the Art of Weaving and Textiles – Dandelion Chandelier. Earlier this year, the Met Breuer hosted a retrospective of the Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee. Tate Modern featured Bauhaus trained textile artist Anni Albers. On top of that, at last week’s Frieze London there was a dedicated section called “Woven.” At the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair that ran concurrently, there was a section entitled “Thread.”
How to Make a Varanasi Brocade – Dastkari Haat Samiti — Google Arts & Culture. Varanasi is well known for its different styles of weaving, created to obtain patterns termed as brocade. Every step of the process of creating a Varanasi
Weaving the Landscape | Galería La Cometa | Artsy. In Latin America and in Colombia in particular, there is an important textile tradition that has passed from generation to generation and that has been one of the most important inheritances of our pre-Columbian cultures.
Finnish Textile Exhibits in MN. Since FInnfest is in MN this summer, there are several related textile exhibits in Minneapolis. American Swedish Institute: “The Living Tradition of Ryijy: Finnish Rugs and Their Makers.” Minnesota Textile Center: “Dreams & Memories: Contemporary Tapestries by Aino Kajaniemi” and “Warming the Room: Finnish-American Rug Weaving.”
Pattern singing in Iran – YouTube.
Enjoy this view into a textile factory: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/christopher-payne-textile-photo
You can make a loom with paper: https://youtu.be/oS9rKmxrLs0