Antique decorative textile - Weaving textiles - Handmade textiles

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Actually, many museums contain permanent collection of antique decorative textiles. These richly decorative textiles for home, animals, everyday and ceremonial clothes made for use by nomads, semi-nomads and settled people of the past, reveal the wonderfull textile traditions held over centuries on the six continents.

Actually, many museums contain permanent collection of antique decorative textiles. These antique weavings collections have examples of all kinds of techniques reflecting the variety of antique decorative textiles of many world's regions. Since many years now, people discovering trough the diverse collections and learning about the many rich textile cultures of continents, highly appreciate antique decorative textiles. The richly decorative textiles for home, the animal covers and trappings, the everyday clothes and the sacred textiles made for ceremonial use from nomads, semi-nomads and settled people of the past are for sale in bazaars, antique decorative textiles shops and fairs. More and more connoisers or not regard the antique decorative textiles as art like paintings or as decorative pieces to embellish their houses. The transfer of ideas, skill, techniques, motifs and colours continue today. Antique decorative textiles influence contemporary designs : the lives and contemporary craft production of urban people and those who cling tenaciously to nomadic life continue to be enriched and influenced by the great arts of the past.