textiles

Hopi sash, ca. 1880–1890, 18.5 x 47 in. Two-piece handwoven embroidered sash sewn together with red yarn. White woven cotton fabric with weave of red, green, black, and white yarn wefts on white cotton warp. One panel longer, fringe. On a fireplace mantel in the Couse Home with northern New Mexico Pueblo pottery and a ceramic insert attributed to Nampeyo (Hopi). E. I. Couse Collection.
Hispanic Textiles at Couse-Sharp Historic Site

Weaving the New World: Hispanic Textiles and Their Influence on the Northern Frontier opens…

They Dream in Time, Uganda Pavilion, Venice Biennale in 2022. Images courtesy La Biennale di Venezia. Photos by Andrea Avezzù.
Acaye Kerunen Advocates for Sustainability Through Textiles

Internationally renowned Ugandan multidisciplinary artist Acaye Kerunen combines storytelling, writing, acting, and activism in her …

Gabriel Dawe with his installation at Toledo Museum of Art
A Conversation on Color and Light with Gabriel Dawe

Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media…

Undocumented Tales of the Future: Now, Installation view, 2024, Artpace Residency, San Antonio Texas
An Art Talk With Fiber Artist Consuelo J. Underwood
Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into…
Almine Rech UES - Joël Andrianomearisoa's MIRACLE installation image.
Joël Andrianomearisoa’s Miracle Textiles at Almine Rech

Internationally renowned Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (b. 1977) creates stunning installations using a variety of media, including …

Left: Unidentified artist, Shawl, Ethiopia, 20th century, cotton, 110.49 x 195.58 cm (43.5 x 77 in.). Salem, The Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of Charles R. and Elizabeth C. Langmuir, after 1973, acc. no. E68695. Right: Aïda Muluneh, Part Three (from the 99 series), 2013. Photograph printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag, Bright White, 40⅜ x 39⅜ in
Ethiopia at the Crossroads: An Exhibit of Resilience

Africa sits as the world’s second-largest continent and holds an intriguing and extraordinary …

Iris Apfel
A Look Back at the Life of Fashion Icon Iris Apfel
When fashion icon Iris Apfel died at 102, she left a legacy of artful living.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau Le Printemps, oil on canvas Estimate $250,000-350,000, Courtesy Christie’s
Masterpieces by Alma-Tadema, Moore, and Bouguereau to Headline Getty Collection Auction

Featuring exquisite …

Installation view, Bisa Butler: Materfamilias, Gordon Parks Foundation. Works: Praise God, 2014, Wedding Portrait, 2001, Colored Entrance (after Department Store, Mobile, Alabama by Gordon Parks, 1956), 2023
Bisa Butler on the Magic of Quilting

The Gordon Parks Foundation recently opened Bisa Butler: Materfamilias…

Artist unknown, Isabel de Bourbon, Queen of Spain, First Wife of Philip IV, ca. 1620. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, P001037.
Threads of Power: A History of Lace

Two and a half years in the making, Threads of Power is now open at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. It is an impressive show that takes a historical…

Acaye Kerunen, Kakare, 2021, Mixed media, 370 x 860 x 50 cm (145 5/8 x 338 5/8 x 19 ¾ in.)
Ugandan Artist Acaye Kerunen's Storytelling of Heritage

Ugandan multidisciplinary performance and installation artist, Acaye Kerunen, is making quite a splash on the international…

detail view of April Bey, detail view of You Told Harpo to Beat Me, 2022. Woven tapestry with hand-sewn fabric and sequins, Chinese knockoff pearls. 80 x 60 inches. 
Thriving on Atlantica: April Bey & her Speculative Futurism
April Bey’s practice is grounded in the fundamental truth that systems and attitudes don’t need to be the way they are. Through both her striking aesthetic and her conceptual approach, Bey breaks…
Detailed and petite lace collar. Unknown, 1610-1620, Standing Band (Collar) with Tassels, Cutwork, needle lace, reticello, punto in aria, embroidery, linen. Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. .
Handmade Lace & the Forgotten Women Behind the Trade
While much of modern lace is loomed by machine, until the mid-nineteenth century, the art of lacemaking was a painstaking and time-consuming craft produced predominantly by women. Despite being a…
unicorn in fenced garden tapestry detail
Explaining The Hunt for the Unicorn Tapestries
The Hunt for the Unicorn Tapestries, cartoons made in Paris, woven in the Southern Netherlands, c. 1495–1505, wool, silk, metal threads (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), including, • The Hunters…
Image of japanese silk braiding in progress. With yellow and two shades of blue silk threads
KUMIHIMO: The Art of Japanese Silk Braiding by DOMYO
The first exhibition in the U.S. exploring the history and art of Japanese silk braiding, or kumihimo (“braided cords”), the JAPAN HOUSE touring exhibition is produced by Yusoku Kumihimo Domyo (DOMYO…