Arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers and fabrics to construct practical or decorative objects.
1Perhaps no branch of the textile art was of greater importance to the aborigines than basketry.
2The following extracts are, therefore, of much importance to the historian of the textile art in America:
3The herring bone, the checker, the guilloche, and the like are greatly the heritage of the textile art.
4The textile art is one of the most ancient known, dating back to the very inception of culture.
5Irish textile art at its best.
6The textile art is the parent, and, as I have already shown, develops within itself a geometric system of ornament.
7The textile art dates back to the very inception of culture, and its practice is next to universal among living peoples.
8The addition of brilliant ornamentation in shell, teeth, feathers, wings of insects and dyed fibres completed the round of the textile art.
9The inhabitants of Ancon were wonderfully skilled in the textile art, and thousands of handsome examples have been obtained from their ancient tombs.
10They included studies of the art of pottery, of the textile art and of art in shell, and a paper on native tobacco pipes.
11Lawson refers to basket-making and other textile arts of the Carolina Indians in the following language:
Translations for textile art