Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts/Newsletter

WikiProject Textile Arts newsletter Issue 2, Volume 1 — February, 2008

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. Palestinian costumes becomes a good article candidate Bedouin woman in Jerusalem, 1880s. In collaboration with Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine, our project has helped improve this cultural article to become a good article candidate. Textile Arts project earns 4 mentions at Template:Did you know Four new textile arts articles earned a spot at Wikipedia's main page in January. Did you know... ...that smocking is an embroidery technique that mimics the effects of elastic? ...that a shell stitch is a crochet motif often used for decorative borders? ...that the Felbrigge Psalter is the oldest embroidered bookbinding in England? ...that The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old? Smocking shell stitch Felbrigge Psalter The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul Recent events Textile arts project earns 7 mentions at Template:Did you know in December 2007. Core topic article clothing nominated for Wikipedia's Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. Top-importance article history of clothing and textiles improves from stub-class to B-class. A new project reference link page makes it easier to add citations to articles. Main pageTemplate:·wrap TalkTemplate:·wrap PortalTemplate:·wrap Articles This month's newsletter was written by Durova. If you wish to stop receiving it, receive it in a different format, or submit items for consideration next month, contact Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Textile Arts. Issue 2, Volume 1, February 2008. Quality watch One of the exciting things about contributing to the textile arts project is how easy it is to make a difference at a top importance article. Thanks to the efforts of Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles and PKM, the history of clothing and textiles article rose from stub-class to B-class in December and now has 27 line citations. 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: B-class: 11 articles Crochet, Knitting, Textile, Weaving, Carpet, Clothing, History of clothing and textiles, Patchwork, Quilting, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Wool Start-class: 11 articles Embroidery, Sewing, Spinning, Yarn, Dyeing, Felt, Fiber, Rug making, Sewing needle, Tapestry, Traditional rug hooking Stub-class: 3 articles Needlework, Beadwork, Macramé