Darby Raymond-Overstreet (Diné), “Woven Landscape: Monument Valley” (2023), mixed media: Digital collage of scanned Navajo textiles and photography, 32 x 24 inches (81.28 x 60.96 cm) (image courtesy ...

Growing up, our history books and teachers repeatedly taught us that India was a thriving exporter, its trade routes stretching across continents. We learnt about spices, especially pepper and ...

More artists are working with fiber, according to Hong Kong curator Takahashi Mizuki, but it 'is still an underrated medium.' Exhibition view: “Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and ...

We often look at our clothes and think about style, fit, or brand. We rarely think about the string. Yet, the history of that string is the history of human survival, trade, and chemistry. If you are ...

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, at the Bronze Age site of Beycesultan Höyük in western Türkiye, where the earliest evidence of indigo-dyed ...

I've always much enjoyed the work of Virginia Postrel (who, among many other things, was once the editor-in-chief of Reason), and I'm delighted to report that she'll be guest-blogging this week about ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. – Ann Hedlund weaves the history of textiles in the American Southwest in the same way tradition, adaptation, innovation, and variability is woven into the textiles she adores.

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. For years, Lauren Lockhart and her colleagues at the La Jolla Historical ...

The South was the heart of the textile industry in America during most of the last century. WYFF 4’s latest special Chronicle: Remaking the Mills takes a closer look at the history of the mill ...

Just a few generations ago, when folks commonly lived in homes without heat, insulation or running water, women took scraps of fabric and made quilts to keep their families warm. With time came access ...

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...