This tapestry textile was woven by one of the students of the Wissa Wassef school of Cairo and Harrania, Egypt. This school of handmade textiles was founded in the 1940s and 1950s by the architect Ramses Wissa Wassef, whose aim was to revive and revitalize traditional Egyptian crafts and handiwork by providing local, poor children with training in spinning sheep’s wool and … [Read more...] about Wissa Wassef School Textile with an Islamic Egyptian Village Scene: Researched and Conserved by Hanna Henroid
The indigenous peoples of the Andean region of South America are master textile makers, with an ancient history of creating textiles that spans millennia. The Andeans developed an ingeniously simple but highly flexible, portable type of loom known as the backstrap loom, which allowed weavers to bring their work with them and to practice their techniques virtually … [Read more...] about 20th-century Andean Textiles: Researched by Alisha Heitz