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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Walking through the North Carolina Museum of History, you'll find that every item tells a different story about the state and the people who have shaped it. Textiles are a ...

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.

A new exhibit entitled "Dressing History: Fabric of War" is now on display at the Pensacola Museum of History. It explores how fabrics have shaped the American military experience, from clothing ...

Suffragists watch as Alice Paul sews stars onto banner. The “story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity,” wrote Virginia Postrel, author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...

A research team led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner from Koç University's Department of Archaeology and History of Art has uncovered remarkable textile fragments at Beycesultan Höyük that rewrite our ...

It can be easy to take for granted the processes involved in creating the clothes we wear, but a new exhibit at the Science History Institute aims to shed light on one aspect of textile creation: dyes ...

Installation view of Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles at Ditching Museum of Art + Craft (all photos Julie Smith Schneider/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) DITCHLING, England — ...

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 ...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ voyage, the Mayflower II at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts has undergone a three-year refurbishment. It’s the first major overhaul since the replica ...