From 20th century aprons to commodity bag dresses, the Textile and Costume Museum at LSU explores fashion and textiles through the ages. The museum's exhibition “Trajé, Maya Textile Artistry” is ...

On a cold Spring morning when the azaleas were straining to burst forth with color, the folks behind plans to turn a desolate parking lot into a greenspace that will pay homage to the city’s textile ...

Synthetic dyes made fashion more vivid, like this hot pink miniskirt suit, designed by Ben Zuckerman in 1964. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

Occupying a historical house that spans an impressive 600 square meters, the museum is a meticulously curated space that celebrates the intricate art of textile production and the city's cultural and ...

STITCHING HISTORY: In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the American Textile History Museum in Lowell presents "Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War," ...

Congratulations to Betsy Wakefield Teter, editor, and to members of the Hub City Writers' Project! They've published the history of textiles in Spartanburg County, portraying 100,000 characters, two ...

One of the country’s most extensive collections of textile machinery currently sits in Randolph County warehouses, and it could soon form the basis for North Carolina’s first new state-run history ...

An exhibition in Kolkata explores and documents the four centuries of shared textile legacy of the two Bengals (West Bengal and Bangladesh) to ensure the preservation of the State’s art and trade ...

SALISBURY — Rowan County, North Carolina and the South as a whole faced the collapse of an agriculture-based economy after the Civil War, and it took entrepreneurs and the communities they lived in to ...

The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 54, No. 2, Papers Presented at the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association (Jun., 1994), pp. 307-324 (18 pages) In the interwar period, ...

Several photographers have captured the journey of the Nan Fung Textile Mill, down to the revitalization of the building where the mill, previously one of the city's major textile manufacturing units, ...