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Alien Travel Guide: History of Weaving
This site from the Alien Travel Guide contains an outline to information on the history of weaving. The outline is in link form for easy navigation and it contains wonderful basic information.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Soda Straw Weaving
Using plastic straws and yarn, young children can weave a bracelet or bookmark. Website includes detailed instruction on how to weave using soda straws and images showing the various steps.
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Manalagi Group: Weaving in Indonesia
This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Navajo Weaving
After studying Navajo weaving and listening to the story "Ten Little Rabbits," students create their own interpretive dances. Contains an assessment checklist and extensions ideas.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Finger Weaving Videos
Advanced finger weaving of a Metis sash are demonstrated in these videos.
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Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Weaving Cotton [Pdf]
A lesson plan exploring the different types of cotton and the many ways humans use it. Students will practice some basic weaving techniques.
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "A Weave of Words"
Here you will find several links to informative sites to enrich "A Weave of Words," by Robert San Souci.
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Card Weaving
This site shows how to weave a strap from the making of the cards to how to use them for weaving.
EL Education
El Education: One Weave at a Time
Students create an instructional guide to weaving that includes different types of weaving, different types and parts of looms, patterns, and digital photographs of students weaving a bag.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Weaving a Story
In this activity, students construct a paper weaving using a chart model. They will also learn skip counting with the TI-10 and recognize number patterns in art.
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Peruvian and Bolivian Weavings
Read about the weavers of the South American Andes and their process of weaving.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Finger Weave
Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!
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African Craft: Small Loom Weaving
Directions on how to make a simple loom from a wooden board and dowel rods. This style is representative to a traditional African loom. Try a new way of weaving in your classroom.
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Kente Paper Weaving
A lesson plan that introduces young students to African textiles. This is a simple paper weaving lesson based on African Kente cloth. Includes lesson adaptations.
Smithsonian Institution
The Fabric of Moroccan Life Rural Weavings
Berber peoples, the indigenous inhabitants of rural Morocco, are known for their spectacular weaving. Shown on this website are 14 different examples.
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Mayan Culture: Maya Weavers
Explore the world of Mayan weaving with this colorful site! Provides photos of this ancient art, as well as links to more information on symbols, weaving techniques, materials, and more.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Weaving the Web
The young scholars will become the food web in this fun interactive classroom activity. Detailed instructions, background information, guiding questions, and activity worksheets are provided.
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Weaving History: Charlotte and the Textile Industry
Photo essay with commentary on southern textile mills in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Show Your Colors and Make Freedom Bracelets
Providing a patriotic-themed art activity,this website shows children how to weave "a bracelet using a simple loom." Included are directions for making simple and more-complex bracelets.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lenore Tawney
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Lenore Tawney is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her weavings and weaving techniques (she switched over to weaving from sculpture).
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Beads and Beadwork
This site describes different techniques of bead weaving used by the Eastern Woodland tribes. There are five different topics discussed as well as a bibliography. The five topics provide detailed descriptions of the types, techniques and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Weaving Narratives in Museum Galleries
As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating- not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their stories. With glorious images,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Art Weaving
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a quiz on the craft and techniques of weaving.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Sash
This article explains the importance of the sash in Metis culture and its history. There are weaving activities and a bibliography included.
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