Please submit sites about textile artists, including those containing galleries, educational or informational sites.

Please do not list sites in this category that primarily offer goods for sale.

Any site that offers goods for sale should submit to one of the appropriate Shopping/Crafts/Fiber_Arts categories.

This category is for websites about the fiber artists who create textile art, including fabrics and objects made by weaving, felting, knitting, braiding, or netting, from the various textile fibers, natural or manmade.

Listings for organizations of textile artists and/or craftspeople, including guilds, clubs, and other organized groups of creative people.

Please submit informational and art sites related to braiding.

Includes techniques including kumihimo (various Japanese techniques), ply-split braiding, and finger-loop braiding. Braids can be used as ties, closures or trim on garments, as straps or belts, or as jewelry. Other off-loom techniques include card (tablet), backstrap and inkle weaving, all found under the Weaving category.

Please submit sites dealing with the craft of hand dyeing textiles.

An ancient art filled with myth and lore. Dyers use either natural dyes from plant, animal or mineral sources, or synthetic dyes designed for specific fiber types. Many effects can be achieved by various techniques including vat dyeing, dip dyeing, masking with resist on fabric (batik), masking by tying fabric (tie-die or shibori), masking by tying warp or weft (ikat), warp or yarn painting, and variations of these.

Please submit sites pertaining to the art and craft of handspinning, including artists'' personal pages, informational and educational sites.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer goods, fiber, equipment or yarn for sale. Submit them instead to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Spinning or the appropriate subcategory.

Handspinning is the craft of creating yarn from fiber, by drawing the fibers out while twisting them. It can by accomplished using a spinning wheel treadled by foot or by hand, or using a drop or support spindle or even more primitive means. This category and its subcategories cover sites about handspinners, equipment, techniques, festivals and events, and types of fiber.

Please submit sites about macrame and decorative knotting used in arts and objects, including gallery, educational and informational sites.

Please do not submit sites that primarily offer items for sale. Submit them instead to the appropriate Shopping/Crafts category.

This category lists sites about creating items using macrame and other decorative knotting techniques, and about the people who create them.

Please submit sites pertaining to the art and craft of weaving, including artists'' personal pages, informational and educational sites.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer weaving supplies, equipment or yarn for sale. Submit them instead to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Weaving or the appropriate subcategory.

Please do not submit sites which primarily offer handwoven goods for sale. Submit them instead to http://freshlinks.net/odp.aspx/Shopping/Crafts/Fiber_Arts/Hand_Weaving/.

The craft of weaving is also known as "handweaving", to distinguish it from mass-production machine weaving which makes most of the fabric today. It is creating fabric from fiber, by interlacing warp and weft threads. This category and its subcategories cover informational and educational sites about weaving and weavers, equipment, techniques, festivals and events.