MetaFilter posts tagged with textile

Crystal Lee Sutton

Fiasco da Gama — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:14:52 -0800

Crystal Lee Sutton was fired for trying to organise a union. The incident was made into the 1979 film Norma Rae. Last week she died at the age of 68.

"Many times when the women were sewing they would cry."

Miko — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:24:49 -0800

Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory , an online exhibit of comtemporary textiles created (mostly) by women living in war zones.

Cloth made from tree bark?

Chuckles — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:21:09 -0800

Cloth made from tree bark? Photos at the Textile Museum of Canada's Cloth That Grows On Trees exhibition page.

Masterpiece Persian Carpets

hortense — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:06:45 -0800

WEALTH OF KINGS Very nice collection of rare and beautiful works of the rug weavers art,including fascinating history of the middle east.

Gastonia 1929

milquetoast — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:43 -0800

Just a small piece down the road from Christmas Town USA looms the empty Loray Mill, an icon of the old industrial South and a monument to the early labor movement. Gastonia 1929: the chief of police is murdered, the Communist organizer flees the country, and the young union balladeer is killed by a strikebreaking mob. (Hear Pete Seeger sing one of her ballads. [real media]) Much more on the area's rich and turbulent history at A Southern Primer. (Lewis Hine's child labor photographs previously discussed here.)

making millions of unseen workers visible

heatherann — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:49:55 -0800

Portrait of a Textile Worker makes one person among millions of unseen workers visible. Her image was constructed with thirty thousand clothing labels stitched together over two years.

is that a dead cat you are concealing in your pocket, or....?

jessamyn — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:46:57 -0800

Deliberately concealed garments footwear and other items have been found tucked away in buildings, sometimes even wrapped around mummified cats. This project of the University of Southampton's Textile Conservation Centre is developing an online archive of the finds they have made in an effort to raise awareness of this folk custom.