Saturday, December 8, 2007

On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving, Lace and Related Topics

Maintained by the University of Arizona, this archive contains an extraordinary amount of materials about weaving, basketry, lace, and related subjects. Free access is provided to thousands of items, all out of copyright or published with the author’s permission. These include 4,222 articles, 437 books, 1,310 periodicals, for example.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/index.html

The main categories include:

Full texts of books about Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics – links also are provided to tables of contents and sample pages you can review before downloading the entire book
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html

A digital archive of articles about weaving and related topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles.html

Digital archive of periodicals related to weaving
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/periodicals.html

Manuscripts related to weaving
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/manuscripts.html

Monographs and Book Sections About Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs.html

Illustrations About Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/illustrations.html

Miscellaneous Material Associated with Weaving, Textiles, and Related Subjects
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/other09.html

Patents on Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/patents.html

Documents on Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics Created for On-Line Publication
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs.html

Online Periodicals about Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webside

Digital Archive of Documents Related to Lace

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html

NOTE: You also can purchase CDs containing documents in this archive.
http://www.handweaving.net/Store.aspx

See http://www.handweaving.net/AboutStore.aspx for why you may want to purchase CDs when the information is available for free.

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