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BBC documentary about the making of the tapestry The Caged Bird’s Song is available on the iPlayer untill 17th November 2020. The tapestry was designed by Chris Ofili and woven at the Dovecot studio.

The Damascus Fiber Arts School Summer Lecture Tour 2020 is available is available online.

Haptic and Hue’s first series of podcasts – Tales of Textiles is about to be launched. It includes episodes on the first Black British designer of international standing, a story about a weaver who has spent 50 years...

Boro (“rags” or “tatters”) are patchwork textiles hand-pieced by peasants in Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The inability to cultivate cotton in the northern climate of Tohoku necessitated the practice of stitching...

Simple instructions guide your through how to make a mini loom and experiment with weaving using recycled plastic bags.

Textile artist Vanessa Barragao has created Tapestry of the World using techniques such as latch hook, crochet and felt; the 20 x 6.5 ft (600 x 200 cm) tapestry used 8 kg (18 lbs) of jute and cotton and 42 kg (93 lbs) of...

Silk Now is a research project that improves the understanding, conservation and dissemination of European silk heritage from the 15th to the 19th century. It applies next-generation computing research to the needs of diverse...

The Museum of London have produce a series of videos highlighting their fashion and costume collections.