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The Craft Atlas is an online platform presenting and mapping traditional and contemporary crafts worldwide. We currently focus on wearable crafts – used in fashion, clothing, accessories. Discover global ways of making by exploring the map and the craft gallery.

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The life & beauty of a cotton plant 🌱 #cotton #

The life & beauty of a cotton plant 🌱 #cotton #lifecycle #floral #cotonnier #naturalbeauty 📷 photo by @penninckxjeanluc

First, a cushion in the Swedish Röllakan weaving

First, a cushion in the Swedish Röllakan weaving technique, late 18th century. Secondly, a two-panel Aksaray Kilim rug from Anatolia, also 18th century⁣. Could you tell the difference?
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🌎 Kilim and Röllakan are similar weaving techniques. This type of ancient, pattern-making flat weaves have appeared in different cultures, on different continents through time, seemingly independent of each other.⁣ Many symbols and ways of making are shared and occur over and over across the world long before the modern era of globalization, and currently, total mashup remix internet era #morethatunitesusthandividesus ⁣
📷 Credits – 1: CC BY-NC-ND @nordiskamuseet NM.0231175, from Skåne region, Sweden.⁣
2: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons. The kilim was probably made by a group of settled Hotamis Turkmen in the Aksaray region.

We had the opportunity to talk about craft heritag

We had the opportunity to talk about craft heritage, design and plans with @fad_barcelona and the lovely @soletdemi - the interview is available in English, Catalan & Spanish, link in bio!

November is the perfect time of the year to give s

November is the perfect time of the year to give some extra love to our clothes, repair & mend what has been worn out.
This beautiful darning sampler is made with silk embroidery on a cotton fabric and dated 1836, bequest Gertrud M. Oppenheimer. You can find it in the @cooperhewitt museum.

Read more about #darning on The Craft Atlas. Link in bio.

#handknitting, you say? 👉 A Patent Model for a

#handknitting, you say? 👉 A Patent Model for a Knitting Machine from 1872.

The mechanization of the textile industry was the catalyst for the industrial revolution. It also set in motion a patent frenzy, including this highly figural circular knitting machine model by Francis M. Comstock. Its function was to produce seamless tubes, as seen in the nylon stockings of the 20th century.

Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History

“We are far more united and have far more in com

“We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us” Jo Cox
Swedish #lovikka glove & #maasai neck piece from the collection of the international women association Esperanza, Luleå repost @hemslojdnorrbotten
#moreincommon #beadwork #wool

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