https://bird-brain.org/2026/05/13/nehrig-women-and-textiles-part-1/Bird Brainen2026-05-13T18:28:28+00:00Nehrig, Women and Textiles, Part 1books, history, art, knitting, learned helplessness, fabric, textiles, weaving, Andean weavers, brocade, kente cloth, Mayan weavers, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Adebowale (fabric artist Olutosin Oladosu), basketry (Navajo), Collier (art therapist Ann Futterman), duplicate stitch (on knitted fabric), cotton (fiber or thread or fabric), Freud (Anna), arpilleras (story cloths), bobbin lace, healing (and handicrafts), Peruvian weavers and dyers, digitized embroidery, discontinuous warp (weaving technique), Alvarez (Nilda Calañuapa), Common Threads Project, Jacquard loom, dyeing, Incan weaving, hyperbolic crochet, burial shroud, appliqué, Spider Woman (Navajo creation story), Su Hui (embroidery poet), distaff, Amer (Ghada), Collingwood-Norris (knitwear designer Flora), mathematics and weaving, Hemlock (quilter Carla), huipil (woven blouse), Kingdom (embroiderer Michelle), Crochet Coral Reef project, story cloth (embroidery or appliqué to tell a story), Babbage (computer programmer Charles), Nehrig (Nicole), khayamiya (Egyptian appliqué), mordant, Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco, Iban of Borneo, Wertheim (crocheting sisters Margaret and Christine), Navajo weavers, warp-weighted loom, Hillerman (novelist Anne), urine (use in dyeing), Harlow (primatologist Harry), quilting bee, witches (maligned women), Euclid’s Elements, Panamanian Guna mola, Miao story cloths (Chinese textile handicrafts), Calcina (Andean weaver Marcela Salas), indigo dyes, embroidery, crochet, Marsh (scholar and weaver Lilly), Greece (ancient weaving), Hansson (embroiderer Mia), monkey (rhesus infants), forgiveness (and handicrafts), Gee’s Bend quilters, Harlizius-Klück (mathematician and weaver Ellen), khipu (quipu), Kahnawake Mohawk children (memorialized with a quilt), Lovelace (computer programmer Ada), Quechua weaving, suffragist handicrafters, Hindu weavers, looms, fiber (for textiles), Bourgeois (multimedia artist Louise), Penelope (Odysseus’s wife), Penelope Project, Viking women, mistakes (and handicrafts), serotonin (neurotransmitter released while handicrafting), Bayeaux Tapestry, sewing circle, weavers, textile-coper, crazy quilt, backstrap loom, Kodi of Indonesia, tactile comfort, cochineal (for dyeing), Taimiņa (Daina), spinning (thread from fiber), Icelandic women, Valoma (Armenian lace maker Deborah), ikat dyeing, Quaker boarding school (coeducational embroidery for learning geography), hooked rug, Holocaust (recovery from through handicrafting), Kanagy-Loux (Elena), tablet weaving, Krinitz (embroiderer and Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal), trauma recovery (through handicrafts), Norse mythology (and textiles), mola (appliquéd and embroidered fabric), Mitchell (astronomer and needleworker Maria), Quechua dyeing, Thompson (art therapist and textile artist Christy), punch-card loom, visible creative mending, Zimmerman (knitter and designer and author Elizabeth), crafthttps://bird-brain.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/00-0-nehrig-book-with-her-own-hands-weaving-stories.jpg?w=150