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The textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Textiles cover the human body to protect it from the elements and to send social cues to other people. Textiles are used to store, secure, and protect possessions, and to soften, insulate, and decorate living spaces and surfaces. The word textile is from Latin texere which means "to weave", "to braid" or "to construct". The simplest textile art is felting, in which animal fibers are matted together using heat and moisture. Most textile arts begin with twisting or spinning and plying fibers to make yarn (called thread when it is very fine and rope when it is very heavy). Yarn can then be knotted, looped, braided, knitted or woven to make flexible fabric or cloth, and cloth can be used to make clothing and soft furnishings. All of these items – felt, yarn, fabric, and finished objects – are referred to as textiles. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization. The history of textile arts is also the history of international trade. Tyrian purple dye was an important trade good in the ancient Mediterranean. The Silk Road brought Chinese silk to India, Africa, and Europe. Tastes for imported luxury fabrics led to sumptuary laws during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The industrial revolution was a revolution of textiles technology: cotton gin, the spinning jenny, and the power loom mechanized production and led to the Luddite rebellion. More about Textile arts... Since the Middle Ages, woollen cloth has been fulled in fulling mills where the cloth was beaten with wooden hammers operated by cams on the shaft of a waterwheel. Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American actor, Christian minister, and former professional football player. He was a noteworthy college football player for Pennsylvania State University who earned a retrospective place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athletes. As a professional player, Grier was a member of the original Fearsome Foursome of the 1957 New York Giants and played in the Pro Bowl twice. After Grier's professional sports career he worked as a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign and was guarding the senator's wife during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Although unable to prevent that killing, Grier took control of the gun and subdued Sirhan Sirhan. Grier's other activities have been colorful and varied. He hosted his own Los Angeles television show and made approximately 70 guest appearances on various shows during the 1960s and 1970s. Grier is known for his serious pursuit of nontraditional hobbies such as macrame and needlepoint. He has authored several books, including Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men in 1973. Grier became an ordained Christian minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth. ... that grosgrain ribbons or textiles finished by calendering become the thin, glossy and papery fabric known as moire (pictured)? ... that shed is a weaving term for the temporary separation in warp threads so the shuttle with the weft can go through? ...that a selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that won't fray or come unraveled? Extent of Silk Road The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting East and West Asia by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time. The trade route was initiated around 114 BC by the Han Dynasty (114 BC), although earlier trade across the continents had already existed. Geographically, the Silk Road or Silk Route is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China, with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean, extending over 8,000 km (5,000 miles) on land and sea. Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations of China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Indian subcontinent, and Rome, and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world. The first person who used the terms "Seidenstraße" and "Seidenstraßen" or "Silk Road(s)" and "Silk Route(s)", was the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877. ▼ Textile arts ► Textile artists ► Beadwork ► Indigenous textile art of the Americas ► Lace ► Needlework ► Ropework ► Rugs and carpets ► Sewing ► Tapestries ► Wearable art ► Weaving Parent project Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts Main project Textile Arts WikiProject Participants Related projects WikiProject Fashion  • WikiProject Knots  • WikiProject Sculpture  • WikiProject Visual arts What are WikiProjects? Featured articles 2 Good articles 2 Template:/box-footer Textile arts Fundamentals: • Crochet • Embroidery • Knitting • Lace • Needlework • Sewing • Spinning • Textile • Weaving • Yarn Additional topics: Beadwork • Carpet • Clothing • Dyeing • Felt • Fiber • History of clothing and textiles • Linen • Macramé • Patchwork • Quilting • Rug making • Sewing needle • Tapestry • Timeline of clothing and textiles technology • Traditional rug hooking • Wool Template:/box-header {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts/to do}} Template:/box-footer Arts Culture Fashion Visual arts What are portals? List of portals Featured portals