Crafts

Weaving

Citation Formats

General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Weaving." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/weaving.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Weaving. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/weaving

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-weaving,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Weaving},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/weaving},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Interlacing two sets of threads at right angles, warp and weft, on a loom. Weaving clothed the ancient world, drove the machines of the industrial revolution, and survives at home on everything from a child's frame loom to a floor loom, carrying pattern traditions as distinct as tartan, ikat and tapestry.

Facts

Craft Class

Fiber and Textile 1

Earliest Evidence (Circa)

Indistinct textile impressions from the Upper Paleolithic site of Dolni Vestonice suggest the skill is far older than any surviving cloth 1

Origin

Actual woven cloth survives from several separate early centers rather than one point of origin: plant-fibre textiles from Guitarrero Cave in Peru date to roughly 10,100 to 9080 BC, entirely independent of the Old World finds the craft's earliest-evidence fact already names. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections