WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations ...

The Remai Modern gallery in Saskatoon is stretching itself to display Sun Ascending. The 1985 tapestry by Finnish-Canadian artist Kaija Sanelma Harris is almost four metres high and a whopping 20 ...

Established in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers, The Textile Museum is an international center for the exhibition, study, collection and preservation of the textile arts. The Museum explores the role that ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t vacuum a priceless antique rug with a Hoover, and the Textile Museum will use one of its largest gifts ever to buy specialized care and preservation equipment for its collection ...

The unfolding of effervescent color, variegated texture and spirited dialogue transformed the Fowler Museum’s second floor on Saturday for its annual Textile Council Sale. Sumptuous fabrics from ...

Always free This exhibition includes a variety of traditional textiles curated by Paul J. Smith, director emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In addition to the traditional ...

In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler ...

The collection, originally housed in the Sanskriti Kendra in Anandgram, was built by OP Jain, a 97-year-old Delhi-based paper ...

It’s hard to say who’ll be more delighted at the groundbreaking for the 35,000-square-foot George Washington University museum next week — GWU officials, or those from Washington’s 87-year-old Textile ...

The designer donated five dresses to the museum on the same day that two commemorative plaques were unveiled at the London museum, which she founded in 2003.

The two historic homes in Kalorama that housed the Textile Museum for 90 years have been sold for $19 million to a private individual, the museum and the George Washington University Museum announced ...

With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs, and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious, and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501–1722).