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Crafting with textiles is a huge field.

Making textiles by weaving, spinning, knitting and other basic processes is just the beginning. There are also many crafts that use textiles.

Find weaving, sewing, quilting and other textile crafters, free patterns, tips and streaming video tutorials and professional advice, along with related links, forums, message boards, online galleries, and more...

All Fiber Arts - Boasting a thousand pages of information, free patterns, resources and instructions for weaving, spinning, dyeing, knitting, crochet, felting, papermaking, needlepoint, sewing, and other textile handicrafts. Discussion boards and chat room.

Fiberarts Online - Comprehensive resources to email lists, discussion boards and listservs, galleries, education, equipment and supplies, and categorized subject search.

Young Embroiderers - Textile sites - Links to all sorts of textile craft sites as well as plenty of embroidery focused resources. The site also has excellent sections on the history of textiles and other related topics.

Sew Girls.com - A busy forum, online since 1999 where sewing, knitting and other related discussion give helpful information on techniques and projects. Don't be fooled by the name. Guys are welcome to join in...

Small Expressions - The online studio of textile and multimedia artist David K. Small with photo galleries, mini-tutorials.

Common Threads - Commercial site offering online knitting tutorials via RealPlayer streaming video. Also offers various message boards by topic.

Lily Abello's Sewing Resource Guide - A megalist of 950 sewing-related resources to education, equipment and supplies, magazines, galleries, and lots, lots more.

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