Portal:Textile Arts/Did you know

...that felt, a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibres, is the oldest known form of fabric?

...that the Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) (pictured) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth depicting scenes commemorating the Battle of Hastings in 1066, with annotations in Latin?
...that batik is an Indonesian-Malay word for a generic wax-resist dyeing technique used on textiles?
...that Art needlework was a type of surface embroidery popular in the later nineteenth century under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement?