Textile art

Textile art comprises artworks in which fibers, fabrics, or textile-making processes are central to the work’s form or meaning. It includes both functional objects and works made primarily for artistic expression.

Weaving: A textile process that interlaces lengthwise warp threads with crosswise weft threads. Its interlaced structure is a foundational way textile artworks form images and surfaces.
Tapestry: A woven textile in which colored weft threads create pictorial or patterned designs. Tapestry turns weaving into large-scale images and wall-hung works.
Bayeux Tapestry: An embroidered linen cloth depicting the Norman Conquest of England and events leading to the Battle of Hastings. Its narrative embroidery shows the long history of textiles as image-making.
Decorative arts: Arts concerned with the design and decoration of functional objects and interiors. Textile artworks often cross the boundary between expressive work and designed object.
Embroidery: The decoration of fabric with needlework, typically using thread or yarn. Stitched lines and patterns can make an existing cloth the artwork’s surface.
Quilt: A layered textile, usually stitched through a top, filling, and backing. Quilts bring construction, pattern, and often personal or collective histories together.
Arts and Crafts movement: A nineteenth-century movement that advocated skilled craftsmanship and reform of industrial design. Its defense of handwork helped elevate textile making within modern design and art.
Craft: The skilled making of objects through learned techniques, often involving material knowledge and manual work. Textile art challenges the hierarchy that has separated craft from fine art.
Knitting: A fabric-making method that forms interlocking loops of yarn with needles or machines. Its looped structure gives textile artworks distinctive flexibility and texture.
Textile sculpture: Three-dimensional art made primarily from fibers, fabric, or textile structures. It extends textile materials beyond flat surfaces into spatial forms.

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