Editing Textile arts (section)

==Textiles as art==
Traditionally the term ''[[art]]'' was used to refer to any skill or mastery, a concept which altered during the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] period of the nineteenth century, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science".<ref>{{cite web |last=Gombrich |first=Ernst |url=http://www.gombrich.co.uk/showdoc.php?id=68 |title=Press statement on The Story of Art |website=The Gombrich Archive |date=2005 |access-date=January 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214125701/http://www.gombrich.co.uk/showdoc.php?id=68 |archive-date=February 14, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This distinction between ''craft'' and [[fine art]] is applied to the textile arts as well, where the term ''[[fiber art]]'' or ''textile art'' is now used to describe textile-based decorative objects which are not intended for practical use.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pantelić |first1=Ksenija |title=Fiber Art and Its Scope |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/fiber-art/ |access-date=October 23, 2019 |work=Widewalls |date=December 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lunin |first1=Lois F. |title=The Descriptive Challenges of Fiber Art |journal=Library Trends |date=Spring 1990 |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=697–8 |publisher=The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois|citeseerx=10.1.1.190.6501 }}</ref>