Editing Textile (section)

=== Other uses ===
Textiles, textile production, and clothing were necessities of life in prehistory, intertwined with the social, economic, and religious systems. Other than clothing, textile crafts produced utilitarian, symbolic, and opulent items. Archaeological artifacts from the Stone Age and the Iron Age in Central Europe are used to examine prehistoric clothing and its role in forming individual and group identities.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.26530/oapen_604250 |title=The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making. : The development of craft traditions and clothing in Central Europe |date=2016 |last1=Grömer |first1=Karina |isbn=978-3-902421-94-4 }}</ref>

==== Source of knowledge ====
[[Artifact (archaeology)|Artifacts]] unearthed in various [[archaeological excavation]]s informs us about the remains of past human life and their activities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=archaeology {{!}} Definition, History, Types, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/archaeology |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=2021-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704002834/https://www.britannica.com/science/archaeology |url-status=live }}</ref> Dyed flax fibers discovered in the Republic of Georgia indicate that textile-like materials were developed during the [[Paleolithic|Paleolithic period]]. [[Radiocarbon dating|Radiocarbon dates]] the microscopic fibers to 36,000 years ago, when modern humans migrated from Africa.<ref name="Kvavadze-2009" />

Several textile remnants, such as the Inca Empire's textile arts remnants, which embody the Incas' aesthetics and social ideals, serve as a means for disseminating information about numerous civilizations, customs, and cultures.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Phipps |first1=Elena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6nutjzmxvkC&q=The+yacolla+was+basically+a+blanket |title=The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830 |last2=Hecht |first2=Johanna |last3=Martín |first3=Cristina Esteras |last4=Martin |first4=Cristina Esteras |last5=N.Y.) |first5=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York |date=2004 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-1-58839-131-5 |pages=17 |language=en |access-date=2022-05-22 |archive-date=2022-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531105603/https://books.google.com/books?id=A6nutjzmxvkC&q=The+yacolla+was+basically+a+blanket |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=D.C.) |first=Textile Museum (Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ovWAAAAMAAJ&q=textile+remains+tell+us+history |title=Textile Museum Journal |date=2003 |publisher=Textile Museum |pages=123 |language=en |access-date=2022-05-22 |archive-date=2022-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531233553/https://books.google.com/books?id=4ovWAAAAMAAJ&q=textile+remains+tell+us+history |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are [[textile museum]]s that display history related to many aspects of textiles. A textile museum raises public awareness and appreciation of the artistic merits and cultural significance of the world's textiles on a local, national, and international scale. The [[George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum]] in Washington, D.C., was established in 1925.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 April 2012 |title=The Textile Museum {{!}} Mission & History |url=http://www.textilemuseum.org/about/history.htm |access-date=2022-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428185646/http://www.textilemuseum.org/about/history.htm |archive-date=2012-04-28 }}</ref>

==== Narrative art ====
The [[Bayeux Tapestry]] is a rare example of secular [[Romanesque art]]. The art work depicts the [[Norman Conquest]] of England in 1066.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bernstein |first=David J. |url=http://archive.org/details/mysteryofbayeuxt0000bern |title=The mystery of the Bayeux tapestry |date=1986 |location=London |publisher= Weidenfeld and Nicolson |isbn=978-0-297-78928-4 |pages=1–10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/kingharoldiibaye0000unse |title=King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry |date=2005 |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY |publisher= Boydell Press |isbn=978-1-84383-124-2}}</ref>

==== Decorative art ====
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Textiles are also used for [[decorative arts|decorative art]]. [[Pipili appliqué work|Appliqué work of pipili]] is decorative art of [[Odisha]], a state in [[East India|eastern India]], used for [[umbrella]]s, wall hangings, lamp shades, and bags. To make a range of decorative products, colored cloth in the shapes of animals, birds, flowers, are sewn onto a base cloth.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 April 2015 |title=Facilitation of IPR Protection through Geographical Indications {{!}} Services {{!}} Textiles Committee (Ministry of Textiles, Government of India) |url=http://textilescommittee.nic.in/services/geographical-indications#Pipli |access-date=2022-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427132918/http://textilescommittee.nic.in/services/geographical-indications#Pipli |archive-date=2015-04-27 }}</ref>
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==== Architextiles ====
[[Architextiles]], a combination of the words architecture and textile, are textile-based assemblages. Awnings are a basic type of architectural textile.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Garcia |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNM3AQAAIAAJ |title=Architextiles |date=2006 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-02634-2 |pages=5 |language=en |access-date=2022-05-24 |archive-date=2022-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602154540/https://books.google.com/books?id=WNM3AQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Shahi Lal Dera|Mughal Shahi Lal Dera Tent]], which was a movable palace, is an example of the architextiles of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal period]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Willem |title=Mughal Shahi Lal Dera Tent |url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/com-k2/individual-textiles-and-textile-types/furnishings/tent-of-shah-jahan |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=trc-leiden.nl |language=en-gb |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811211625/https://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/com-k2/individual-textiles-and-textile-types/furnishings/tent-of-shah-jahan |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Currency====
Textiles had been used as currency as well. In Africa, textiles were used as currency in addition to being used for clothing, headwear, swaddling, tents, sails, bags, sacks, carpets, rugs, curtains, etc.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Marion |title=Cloth as Money: the Cloth Strip Currencies of Africa |journal=Textile History |date=October 1980 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=193–202 |doi=10.1179/004049680793691185 }}</ref> Along the east–west axis in sub-Saharan Africa, cloth strip, which was typically produced in the savannah, was used as a form of currency.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-18675-3_3 |chapter=Guinées in the Lower Senegal River: A Consumer-Led Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century |title=Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa |date=2019 |last1=Kobayashi |first1=Kazuo |pages=81–125 |isbn=978-3-030-18674-6 }}</ref>

==== Votive offering ====
Textiles were among the [[Votive offering|objects offered]] to the gods [votive offering] in ancient Greece for religious purposes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Br¿ns |first=Cecilie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXm7DQAAQBAJ&dq=gods+and+garments&pg=PR23 |title=Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC |date=30 November 2016 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-78570-358-4 |pages=51 |language=en |access-date=2022-12-03 |archive-date=2023-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409133722/https://books.google.com/books?id=aXm7DQAAQBAJ&dq=gods+and+garments&pg=PR23 |url-status=live }}</ref>