| :: Art :: Textiles :: |
 Fabric
Link
(Self-styled) Educational Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings,
and Care. A few useful sections such as: Dictionary
of Fabric Terms and Fabric
History |
Fashion.net
Keep up to date with designers, fashions etc |
TextileArts.net
An excellent directory, especially for its World
Textiles section. |
Textile
Dictionary
Every type of fibre imaginable each with their fibre, weave, characteristics
and uses. Useful for GCSE D&T students. For example:
Plant Fibres From abaca to urena, this is a brief summary of plant
materials that are used to make fabrics. |
| :: World Textiles :: |
Ethnic
Arts
Features a variety of multicultural designs - including Aboriginal art, African,
Guatemalan textiles etc Well worth a look. |
| :: Africa - see also Masks section
:: |
African
Textiles Gallery
A commercial site but some good examples |
Afrocentric
A HUGE selection from the commercial art.com site. |
Artchive
Brief but clear introduction followed by some good examples. |
Artlex
: African Art
Very good selection of images. |
Houston's
Museum of Fine Art
A selection of sculptures and gold objects. |
North
Carolina Museum of Art
The African Gallery contains many works of African art from the 19th and
20th centuries. |
Traditional
African Arts
Includes masks, textiles, jewellery etc  Top
of page |
| :: Asia :: |
Art
of Japan
An excellent overview of Japanese origami, architecture, gardens, paintings
and sculpture. A Thinkquest site. |
Asian
Art
Another huge selection from art.com. |
AsianArt.com
The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia |
Family
Ties
A few examples from an exhibition of children's and adults costumes from
China and Japan |
Heavens'
Embroidered Cloths:
One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles. A few examples from an exhibition. |
Lao
Textiles Revisited
Traditional and contemporary designs. |
| :: Guatemala :: |
Lonely
Planet's Guatemala
Find out about the country - quickly and easily |
Guatemalan
Textiles
Examples of greeting cards from Ethnic Arts site. |
Mayan
Weaving techniques
are described on this page from Colores
del Pueblo, which has several pages of examples of huipiles & cortes |
| :: India :: |
| Indian
textiles |
Paisley
designs
Basic information from Charles Sturt University NSW. |
| :: Masks :: |
African
Art Museum
Lists many tribes, each with their associated artwork, including many masks. |
African
Tribal Art
From the Rebirth Africa Rebirth
Africa Art Gallery a selection of masks. Visit the home page for more
African art links and information. |
Art
of the African Mask
A selection of background material plus pictures form this University of
Virginia site. |
| Artlex:
Masks |
Chinese
Opera Masks
Huge selection of pictures plus information about the meaning of the colours
used. |
Ethnic
Arts
The gallery offers examples of masks from Africa, Java, Borneo and Papua
New Guinea. |
Magical
Faces of Africa
Article plus a gallery of pictures. |
Masks
from Novica.com
Includes African, Balinese, South American and more. |
Masks
at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Part of the University of Oxford - historical information of a range of masks
plus some pictures. |
Noh
Masks
Commercial site |
Shape
Shifter - Mask Maker
Looking at the history of masks in terms of magic and religion. |
Venetian
Masks from Carta Alta
Commercial site for Venetian masks. In Italian, but just click on the pictures. |
| :: Navajo :: |
Marla
Mallet: Indian textiles
Collection of individual examples |
Navajo
Blankets.comNavajo
Women weavers
A n essay about the history of Navajo weaving, no pictures. |
Adobe
Gallery: Navajo textiles
A good selection |
Plus ...
in Yahoo, enter "navajo textiles" as your search
then select IMAGES from the tab selection offered. |
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