Women and Textiles

Women around the world make and use textiles. There are many traditions associated with rituals and life events. Textiles are not only functional but they also communicate individual identity and spiritual beliefs.

Catherine Amoroso Leslie. Needlework Through History: An Encyclopedia. (Greenwood Press, CT: 2007), pg. xi (summary).

Specific life events that would be celebrated with textiles are: birth/baptism, first communion, marriage, death/burial, religious worship/mass, fiestas.