textile craft
Making cloth creations
Textile craft encompasses hands-on techniques for creating or decorating fabric and fiber-based materials—knitting, weaving, embroidery, quilting, dyeing, and similar practices.
The term emphasizes the handmade and artisanal over industrial production: She teaches textile crafts at the community center.
Textile crafts may be pursued for practical, artistic, or therapeutic purposes.
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- feltingCompacting fibers through agitation
- needle feltingSculpting with barbed tools
embroidery · loom · knitting · appliqué · rug hooking · sewing circle · block printing · retting · natural dyes · upholstery · batik · spindle · macramé · tatting · bobbin lace · combing · crocheting · quilting
textile craftwoodworking
Craft of shaping lumber
metalwork · metalsmithing · blacksmithing · stonework · ironwork
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