Device used for twisting fibers into yarn. From approximately the 14th century onward, and particularly from the 1720s, the spindle spinning wheel...

Pletenie na krosienkach (tiež sprang alebo krosienkovanie) je starobylá textilná technika, pri ktorej sa elastická sieťovina vytvára prepletaním...

(nožná stupa, lamalnica) – a tool in the form of a trough for separating the woody part of hemp from the fiber. It stood on four legs and the hemp...

Technique in which a bundle of straw is shaped into the desired form while being wrapped and sewn with split willow rods or thin wooden strips. It...

The most commonly used tool for shearing sheep until the mid-20th century was string or articulated shears.

Tablet weaving – a technique using small square or rectangular tablets made of wood, bone, leather, or plastic, with holes in the corners through...

Craft focused on sewing men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing and linen. It became an independent craft in the 13th and 14th centuries. The first...

Technology for processing used or waste textile materials, such as garments or production scraps, that are no longer suitable for wear. Through...

Textile technique in which yarn is inserted by hand into a base fabric using a manual tufting tool or tufting needle. It is used to create rugs,...

Tufting needle / Manual tufting hook – a basic hand tool used in tufting to insert yarn into a base textile for the production of rugs, wall...

Wool twining / Druganie – a method of twisting fibers into a thread with a weaker or stronger twist than spun yarn. Its purpose was to produce a...

Wet cleaning method used to remove dirt and grease from wool. It often began before shearing, when sheep were washed. Wool was commonly washed in a...

The process by which water vapor condenses on the surface of objects (e.g., a window) when their temperature drops below the dew point. It depends...

The weft is inserted by a jet of water. High speed, suitable for synthetic materials (polyester, nylon).

Method of making textiles, based on the rectangular crossing of two sets of threads – warp and weft. Mechanically separated groups of warp threads...

Until the mid-20th century, alongside loom weaving, two simpler methods of textile production were preserved in the traditional textile culture of...

A tensioning device is an auxiliary tool used in weaving to maintain even tension in the warp (the longitudinal threads on the loom). Its function...

One of the oldest textile techniques, based on joining animal fibers, especially sheep wool, without spinning them into yarn. Fibers are layered...

Wet-spinning, originally introduced for the production of viscose fiber (rayon), involves dissolving polymers in a suitable solvent before spinning....

Wet cleaning method used to remove dirt and grease from wool. It often began before shearing, when sheep were washed. Wool was commonly washed in a...