#textile art should be taught as a unit in art classes right alongside oil painting - the history of goes back even farther and is so

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it makes me sad how often textile arts are ignored as actual art forms, and are relegated to the disregarded realm of 'old lady hobbies'. there is so much skill involved, such a broad diversity of forms, but so many people straight up do not think of things like crochet or quilting as art.