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Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl, design for double woven cloth, 1926 #WomensArt #UnravellingWomensArt

July 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM

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'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer

Three birds in flight flying to the left against a swirling green blue sky

August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM

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'Late Day Shadows' - an art quilt by textile artist Nancy Messier #UnravellingWomensArt

Textile artist with image of a section of a bicycle wheel and the shadow it makes on the ground

August 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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Anna Brown Ehlers, master weaver of the Tlingit tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #UnravellingWomensArt

Photo featuring a standing woman wearing a cloak with significant symbols and motifs in black yellow and blue

August 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM

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'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt

Textile artist featuring three small black and white birds with long forked tails in flight, flying right against a swirling blue green sky

August 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl, design for double woven cloth, 1926 #WomensArt #UnravellingWomensArt

Painted design for a textile with rectangles and stripes in pastel colours of blue, peach as well as black and white

October 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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Dress designed by artist, designer, painter Sonia Delaunay, France, 1925-28 #UnravellingWomensArt

Photo of a straight silver sleeveless dress with interjecting horizontal stripes in different merging colours, all against a dark grey background

April 27, 2026 at 1:29 PM

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Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork in quilt form with images of red and pink flowers on tall green stems

August 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

Four images of Indian women creating crochet covers for elephants in a sandy landscape

December 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM

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Textile artist Sue Trevor, handmade machine stitched textile teapot #UnravellingWomensArt

Teapot witj spout to the left created with patterned material with flower motifs in pinks and purple on a greenish background

August 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM

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August 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM

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During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st womensart book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!

April 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM

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Local women crochet/knit sweaters for rescued often sick and vulnerable elephants when night temperatures fall low, at the Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

Photo of two Indian women leading an elephant which is wearing a striped blanket covering with red leggings

August 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM

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A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt

Purple and gold embroidered suffrage banner with text including 'Manchester' and 'The fight founded by Mrs Pankhurst 1903'

October 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st @womensart1 book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!

Monochrome photograph of the mid section of a woman in thd act of knitting

June 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM

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Helen Poremba, UK textile artist living who creates with free-motion embroidery, she ‘draws’ with a stitched line and ‘paints’ with a whole range of recycled fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt

Textile art with four poppy blossoms on green stems and with feathered leaves, all on a cream background

August 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Spiders and spider webs embroidered on US 19th century crazy quilts were thought to help to catch good luck and wealth. Spiders are also said to bring luck to weavers #UnravellingWomensArt

Photo of a textile piece with irregular pieces of differently coloured material sewn together and with an embroidered spiders web in white on one section

May 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM

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During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st @womensart1 book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting woman, with only her middle in view knitting in a patterned dress

September 23, 2026 at 4:30 AM

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La artista Maya Gelfman usa hilo mientras trabaja en su instalación "Black Birds" #UnravellingWomensArt

November 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM

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"Jubilee, 2000" by artist Susie Freeman, a wedding dress with rows of tiny mesh pockets containing 6,279 contraceptive pills, the average amount a woman may take in her reproductive lifetime.

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