This lesson plan gives young scholars a chance to try weaving with paper and features illustrated instructions, extension ideas, and objectives.

This site from the Alien Travel Guide contains an outline to information on the history of weaving. The outline is in link form for easy navigation and it contains wonderful basic information.

Students create an instructional guide to weaving that includes different types of weaving, different types and parts of looms, patterns, and digital photographs of students weaving a bag.

Directions on how to make a simple loom from a wooden board and dowel rods. This style is representative to a traditional African loom. Try a new way of weaving in your classroom.

A great resource for introducing different types of textiles and weavings to your students. A good amount of background information is included as well as a few simple learning activities.

Site provides a walk through the ages in textile development. Includes quite a bit on the loom innovations and developments of the textile industry.

Dozens of streaming videos to view based on African art and culture. View examples of how masks are used in festivals and ceremonies, how pottery is formed and fired, art that is created for everyday living, weaving on a loom, funeral...

This site from the Traditional Crafts of Japan site contains information on the art of weaving in Japan. It discusses the silk, the weaves, the loom and the future. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

Don't have a loom? No problem with this weaving idea. All you need is yarn and your fingers!

The use of the spindle and loom, sewing, braiding, etc, form the subjects of many of the paintings, as also the process of cultivating flax, beating and combing it. - Goodrich, 1844

Through the examination of two textiles from opposite sides of the world you will go in-depth to reveal how fiber arts can tell us more about people in other cultures.

This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.

This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.

This site from Manalagi Inc. contains information on the weaving in Indonesia with focus on the backstrap loom. Pictures are provided and the text is somewhat in-depth, making this a great site to check out on the subject.

Teach your students how to make some crafts that Native American children might have used for their toys.

The "Weavings" section of this excellent website offers the following options for in-depth study: "Making and Dyeing Yarn", "Weavers and their Looms", "Chinchero Weaving", "Learning to Weave", and "Patterns of Chinchero". Click on a...

Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....

Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....