Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts/Newsletter/January 2008

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Issue 1, Volume 1 — January 1, 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.

Textile Arts project earns 7 mentions at Template:Did you know

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?
...that unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter?
...that handmade lace often begins as crochet thread?
...that stitch markers are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
...that a hook gauge detects irregularities in manufacturer sizing of crochet hooks and knitting needles?
...that Navajo rugs sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850?

bead crochet	granny square	crochet thread	stitch marker (crochet)
hook gauge	Navajo rug

Clothing nominated for Wikipedia's Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive

Mohammed Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara in 1911, wearing resplendent clothing.

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.

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.

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Issue 1, Volume 1, January 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: