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Wool

Refers especially to the fine, soft, curly hair or fleece of the sheep, but also refers to hair of the alpaca, vicuna, certain goats, and a few other animals.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

The art of making a tapestry

Wearable art in Byzantium

Paracas textiles, an introduction

Textiles in the Colonial Andes

Works of Art

The Kevorkian Carpet

17th century

Amazigh akhnif (hooded cloak)

late 19th–early 20th century

Weaving the landscape: DY Begay’s The Edge

2013

Olga de Amaral, El gran muro

1976

Marie Watt’s Companion Species (Speech Bubble): Blankets, Community, and Intersectionality

2019

A Wari tunic

c. 600–850

Man’s robe (boubou or kusaibi), unrecorded Mandinka artists

1920s or earlier

Step inside Magdalena Abakanowicz’s forest of woven sculptures

1969–80

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