The piña cloth is a light fabric popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unique to the Philippines and has been used to make traditional garments for centuries. The fabric is ...

If any medium was the Cinderella of the art and design worlds – useful and everyday, yet capable of extraordinary beauty and conveying occasional wonder – it would be textiles. Look closer at the what ...

The government is promoting royal fabric patterns designed by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya under a project aimed at preserving traditional handicrafts, improving ...

AMES, Iowa – It has to be one of the most unusual choices in musical instruments ever. For the last few years, Olivia Valentine, an associate professor of art and visual culture at Iowa State ...

Palpa is famous for its Dhaka weaves, but Pabi Sara Rajali did not know this when she first ran away from home to come here more than 20 years ago. From a Magar household, she did not even speak ...