Credit Lines: Reusing Diagrams, Data and Images

Most of what appears on Tailor, Weaver, Jeweler, Dyer can be reused, though not all of it on the same terms. Every image has its credit line printed beneath it, and this page explains what each kind of credit means.

Diagrams and data made for this site

Diagrams drawn for this site, such as weave diagrams, cross-sections, timelines and tension maps, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). So are the CSV files of data the site compiled or computed. You may copy, adapt and share them, for any purpose including commercial use, as long as you give credit.

Each diagram has a credit line ready to copy, in this form:

"{Diagram title}" by Tailor, Weaver, Jeweler, Dyer, from {full address of the page}. Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A link back to the page is welcome. It is not an extra condition: the terms are those of CC BY 4.0 and nothing more.

The license covers only what this site drew.

Each row of a CSV file names the source of its data. A fact that could only come from a source whose terms do not allow reuse is left out of the files.

Photographs, prints and paintings by others

Museum photographs, period paintings, fashion plates and book scans keep their own licenses. Each caption gives the full credit: the title; the maker, or the name the source asks to be credited, such as Wellcome Collection or Auckland Museum (Unknown maker or Unknown engraver when no name is recorded); the page the image came from; and the license with a link to its terms, followed by any change made here, such as a crop or a single page taken from a scanned book.

On the first pages every one of these images comes from a Wikimedia Commons file page. Photographs and prints released under CC0 come from the Met, the Rijksmuseum, Paris Musées and the Yale Center for British Art, along with object photographs that their Commons photographers dedicated under CC0. Images from the Wellcome Collection and Auckland War Memorial Museum are under CC BY 4.0, and a few photographs by Commons contributors are under CC BY 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0.

A public-domain image states the basis for it: the maker's death year or the date of publication, and the places where that puts the work out of copyright, or the source's own Public Domain Mark. Faithful photographs and scans of old paintings, prints and book plates, many of which Commons tags PD-Art, are credited on the basis of the original work. A photograph of a three-dimensional object, such as a ring or a pocket, is credited under the photograph's license.

Images under CC BY-SA keep that license. A version this site changed, such as a crop, would be shared under CC BY-SA as ShareAlike requires, not under the site's CC BY.

To reuse one of these images, follow its own license; this site grants no rights in it.

Data from other sources

Where a table gives object names, dates, materials and accession numbers from museum catalogue data released under CC0 1.0, no credit is required, but each row still names the museum and the accession number. The first pages use such data from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access program and from the Rijksmuseum, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Wellcome Collection, Paris Musées and Yale Center for British Art. Longer descriptions that some museums publish under other terms are not copied.

Names, formulas and structures of dye molecules come from ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest) at EMBL-EBI, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Structure drawings and tables that use ChEBI data say so in their credit line, with the license. A few tables also restate results from research papers published under CC BY 4.0, such as the 2021 analysis of purple-dyed wool from Timna, and credit each paper with its license.

Facts from Scotland's official register of tartans are restated with the acknowledgement its Crown copyright terms ask for, and the legal definition of tartan is quoted from the 2008 Act of the Scottish Parliament that set up the register, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Facts from public-domain period texts, such as the Encyclopédie plates of 1771 or Cellini's treatise on goldsmithing, are restated or quoted, and cited.

Some sources are only checked, not republished. The page cites and links them and restates single facts in its own words; no text or image from them is copied into the site's diagrams or files. Examples are V&A Dundee's 2023 report about the Glen Affric tartan and the Scottish Tartans Authority's essay on color in tartan. Short quotations from other publications stay under their owners' terms and are credited where they appear.

Illustrations

Scene-setting illustrations are not part of the CC BY release. Each carries this caption, which also sets its reuse terms:

Illustration: Tailor, Weaver, Jeweler, Dyer. Generated schematic image — not a photograph or historical record. Reuse terms: may be shared with this full caption and a link to the source page; not licensed under CC BY.

Typefaces

The site is set in three typefaces released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Bodoni Moda for headings (Copyright 2020 The Bodoni Moda Project Authors), Albert Sans for text (Copyright 2021 The Albert Sans Project Authors) and Spline Sans Mono for data and captions (Copyright 2022 The Spline Sans Mono Project Authors). The fonts are served from this site.

Citing a page

Every article has a Cite this page block giving the site name, the title, the date of publication, the date of the last substantive revision and the page's address. The date you accessed the page belongs in a citation too. The site does not issue DOIs, so cite the page by its address.

Questions about reuse can go to Contact and Correspondence.