Welcome!WikiProject Textile Arts is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of textile arts. This newsletter exists simply to notify project members of ongoing events within the project and relating to textile arts on Wikipedia.
Five new texile arts articles received highlight on Wikipedia's main page in December, and six of these were the top listing at Did you know because the editors selected our image submission.
Did you know...
...that bead crochet (pictured) was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?
...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares (pictured) was a 1970s fashion fad?
The top-priority textile arts article clothing has been identified by Wikipedia's Version 1.0 Editorial Team as a core topic, which means this is one of the 150 most important articles for any encyclopedia to have. Our project rates this a B-class article and the Version 1.0 team rates it Start-class. Either way, it's an excellent entry point to the textile arts project: a general interest article that anyone can improve.
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The project does have one featured article: mid-importance cochineal. It also has a good article in high-importance history of silk. None of our top-importance articles have reached that quality yet. Here's a breakdown:
