COOLEEMEE ó Do you have a special handkerchief, doily, quilt, dress or pillow case that you love but sits hidden in a drawer or closet? ěNow is the time to show it off and let others appreciate it too ...

The diversity of materials and design that await the visitor at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s major new exhibition The Fabric of India, is apparent right from the opening display. The visitor is ...

The exhibition will feature 45 examples of textiles including rugs, clothing, animal trappings and other such items, ranging in date from the mid-19th to the late-20th centuries. In addition to the ...

There seems to be a strange, unspoken idea floating around in 21st-century discourse that history, or at least meaningful history, began around the year 1700 – or 1800, or in the most egregious cases, ...

Part I. Beginnings. The restoration of the tapestries (1971) / Wendy Hefford ; John Bottiger : keeper of textiles (1988) / Stig Fogelmarck ; Eighty years of pietas (1988) / Inger Estham ; "Workshop ...

The new kinds of textiles possess characteristics that make them useful in numerous applications. Although textiles are still the major component of the clothes we wear and of many furnishings in our ...