Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers and fabrics to construct practical or decorative objects.
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Nowadays, like many other textile crafts, leatherwork is strongly influenced by fashion, changing from season to season, and the raw material is imported.
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The best proof is the way in which the textile crafts of independent Oriental countries like Turkey and Persia were similarly ruined by Western competition.
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Perhaps no branch of the textile art was of greater importance to the aborigines than basketry.
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The following extracts are, therefore, of much importance to the historian of the textile art in America:
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The herring bone, the checker, the guilloche, and the like are greatly the heritage of the textile art.
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The textile art is one of the most ancient known, dating back to the very inception of culture.
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Irish textile art at its best.
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The textile art is the parent, and, as I have already shown, develops within itself a geometric system of ornament.
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The textile art dates back to the very inception of culture, and its practice is next to universal among living peoples.
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The addition of brilliant ornamentation in shell, teeth, feathers, wings of insects and dyed fibres completed the round of the textile art.
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The inhabitants of Ancon were wonderfully skilled in the textile art, and thousands of handsome examples have been obtained from their ancient tombs.
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They included studies of the art of pottery, of the textile art and of art in shell, and a paper on native tobacco pipes.
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Lawson refers to basket-making and other textile arts of the Carolina Indians in the following language:
Russian
Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan