Craft, Trades & Making · Textile & Fibre Crafts
A topic within Textile & Fibre Crafts, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
2 works
Victoria and Albert Museum
Follows the hikihaku technique in which gold leaf is laid on paper, cut into fine strips and woven as weft, showing that the cloth's metallic surface is a weaving problem rather than a finishing one.
link checked 17 Sept 2026G. H. Oelsner
Argues that the huge variety of woven fabrics reduces to a small set of weave families once drafted on point paper, and that a weaver who reads drafts can reconstruct any historical fabric.
link checked 17 Sept 2026