https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt <p>ISSN 2994-2888</p> <p>The FLT online journal publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles related to textile production and use in ethnographic and historical contexts. As our title suggests, our articles focus on material properties, aspects of textile making, as well as functions. The ranges of topics include loom-woven textiles, non-loom textiles and baskets, and non-woven materials such as bark-cloth and their associated material. Our intended readership consists of academics and lay-people with an interest in textiles.</p> <p>This Open Access journal is published by the <a href="https://tracingpatterns.org">Tracing Patterns Foundation</a>, a non-profit organization registered at 972 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California 94708, with the support of an <a href="http://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/about/editorialTeam">international editorial team</a>. You may submit articles by <a href="http://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/user/register">registering</a>. We encourage scholars with English as a second language to submit, and we provide basic English editing. Articles are published as soon as they have completed the editorial process, in the order they are received and edited. There is one 'Issue' per calendar year, with articles added on a rolling basis.</p> <p>If you would like to support this initiative, you can contribute your expertise as a reviewer (<a href="http://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/about/contact">contact us)</a> or make a <a href="https://tracingpatterns.org/donate.html">donation</a> to the Tracing Patterns Foundation. <a href="https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/about">More about the journal.</a></p> en-US https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/announcement/view/4 <p>We have just added two new articles, one by tablet weaving specialist Keiko Kusakabe, on the tablet weaving traditions of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The other article concerns an early batik textile, which is (as far as we know) the earliest Indonesian textile found to date, by Sandra Sardjono and journal editor Christopher Buckley</p> Fiber, Loom & Technique 2022-08-12 https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/announcement/view/3 Fiber, Loom & Technique 2022-02-23 https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/announcement/view/2 Fiber, Loom & Technique 2021-08-31 https://fltjournal.libraryhost.com/index.php/flt/announcement/view/1 <p>We are delighted to announce the publication of our new journal, which will provide a forum for publishing papers (of any length) on aspects of textile and fiber production, historical, archaeological and ethnographic. Our first two papers are from Long Bo and Zhao Feng of the China National Silk Museum, and Eric Boudot (independent), and they provide complementary views of the early development of complex loom technologies at the eastern end of the Silk Road. Long Bo and Zhao Feng's paper reviews the ethnographic and archaeological evidence for multi-heddle patterning systems, and in particular compares contemporary examples with the loom models recently excavated from the Laoguanshan tomb in Sichuan Province in China, one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the past decade. Eric Boudot's paper reviews an important early textile found in the west of China, now in the Chris Hall collection, and the evidence it provides for a patterning system providing repeats in the weft direction. Eric provides a detailed hypothesis for the type of loom that might have been used, based on a vertical zilu loom with cross-cord system for selecting warps. We hope you enjoy these papers. There are more coming soon!</p> <p>Chris Buckley (editor)</p> <p>Sandra Sardjono (President, Tracing Patterns Foundation)</p> Fiber, Loom & Technique 2021-07-23