https://bird-brain.org/2026/05/19/nehrig-women-and-textiles-part-2/Bird Brainen2026-05-19T23:09:54+00:00Nehrig, Women and Textiles, Part 2books, art, knitting, Crafts, feminism, sewing, fabric, weaving, spinning, handicrafts, artisans, Common Threads Project, Nehrig (Nicole), Navajo weavers, embroidery, crochet, Hansson (embroiderer Mia), Gee’s Bend quilters, weavers, trauma recovery (through handicrafts), craft, African-American heritage (and quilts), craft guilds (formed by men to exclude women), cross-stitch (embroidered or as pixels), fabric-scrap “paintings”, bricolage, arpilleras, civil rights advocacy (and quilters), racism (opposing via handicrafts), Ahenah, Greer (artisan and author Betsy), Nest (founded by Rebecca Van Bergen), Ravelry (knitting and crochet web platform), craftivism, Freedom Quilting Bee, Barber (archeologist and textile scholar Elizabeth Wayland), dressmaking (e.g. by Mercy Jane Bancroft [Blair]), crazy quilts, Keckley (dressmaker Elizabeth), guerrilla knitting, charkha (spinning wheel), Souls Grown Deep (founded by William Arnett), Adebowale (Nigerian sewing artist Olutosin Oladosu), Tindall (Fair Isle knitter Hazel), boycotting, Native American handicrafters, Fair Island knitting, story quilts, Indian independence (and spinning and weaving), Guna (Panamanian reverse appliqué crafters), Þorláksson (Icelandic historian Helgi), khadi (Indian cloth), Rumpelstiltskin (and spinning), Ghnaim (Palestinian-American embroiderer and historian Wafa), Neolithic textiles, heritage (as expressed through handicrafts), Bayeaux Tapestry (embroidery ca. 1066), Hudson Valley Textile Project, Shetland (Scottish knitters), factory work (vs home handicrafts), misogyny (opposing via handicrafts), quilting, quilts, Jones (Gee’s Bend quilter Marlene Bennett), Kruger (English literature professor Kathryn Sullivan), recycling fabric scraps into art or craft, Juarez (dyer of textiles and ceramic artist Petra), memorial handicrafts (remembering lost loved ones), tatreez (Palestinian embroidery), homophobia (opposing via handicrafts), Knit.Club (founded by knitwear designer Lindsay Degen), Marshall (ecologist and weaver Rilla), molas (Panamanian Guna reverse appliqué), knitters, Loose Ends Project (founded by knitters Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic), suffragists’ embroidered banners, Stitch ’n Bitch (knitting group founded by Debbie Stoller), Ringgold (story-quilter and author Faith), Swadeshi (activist Indian spinners), story cloths, wadmal (Icelandic and Scandinavian weaving), Walter (quilters advocate Francis Xavier), spinning bees, unraveling (as activism such as by textile artist Sonya Clark), quilting bees, wonderbags, LGBTQ+ (advocacy via handicrafts), yarn-bombing, handicrafters, Gandhi (spinner and activist Mahatma), vaðmal (Icelandic and Scandinavian weaving), tailoring (clothes), lace (made by 1500s–1600s Venetian nuns), Tarabotti (nun and lace broker and author Arcangela), Mete (Kodi Indonesia dyer and weaver Marta)https://bird-brain.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/00-0-nehrig-book-with-her-own-hands-weaving-stories_resized-2.png?w=150