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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cotton mills and the surrounding housing, often built by the mill owners for their workers, shaped the fabric of small towns and cities throughout the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The textile ...
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 — ...
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Cotton Textiles in Global History / Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi -- World Areas of Cotton Textile Manufacturing -- Cotton Textiles in the Indian Subcontinent, 1200-1800 / Prasannan ...
Near the beginning of “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper” at the Blanton Museum of Art, a 1968 photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson portrays Albers with her husband, Josef, whose “Homage to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The "story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity," wrote Virginia Postrel, author of "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World." We may not notice, but much of our language—and ...
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