This lesson plan gives students a chance to try weaving with paper and features illustrated instructions, extension ideas, and objectives.

This site from Artisans in Focus contains wonderful information on the art of weaving. The site is outlined in link form for easy navigation and it contains information on subjects such as: preparing the yarn, dying the yarn, natural...

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.

Advanced finger weaving of a Metis sash are demonstrated in these videos.

Here you will find several links to informative sites to enrich "A Weave of Words," by Robert San Souci.

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.

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.

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.

Berber peoples, the indigenous inhabitants of rural Morocco, are known for their spectacular weaving. Shown on this website are 14 different examples.

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).

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a quiz on the craft and techniques of weaving.

This article explains the importance of the sash in Metis culture and its history. There are weaving activities and a bibliography included.

Dozens of streaming videos to view based on African art and culture. View examples of how masks are used in festivals and ceremonies, how pottery is formed and fired, art that is created for everyday living, weaving on a loom, funeral...

Metis women are known for their skills in beading, quilling embroidery and finger weaving. Traditional arts and contemporary artists and their art is recognized through video, print and visual files.

Celebrate Black Heritage Month by studying this Dreamweaver who used his talents as a teacher, writer, speaker, and activist to persuade people to share his passion for a world in which all people are treated equally. Write poems,...

Read about the effect a certain parasitic wasp can have on spiders. Includes video.

Interactive resource about pottery, weaving, quilting, and basketry. Includes informative texts, videos of children dicussing and/or performing their craft, ability to "make" crafts online, and information about places to go to make...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Kay Sekimachi is described here along with information on her contributions to art through weaving.

This site from the Traditional Crafts of Japan site contains information on the art of weaving in Japan. It discusses the silk, the weaves, the loom and the future. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.

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.

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!