Today, many fashion houses offer attires supposedly made of 'muslin' fabric, so they say. Here, they are referring to muslin more as a common noun indicating a fine cloth. Muslin was incredibly fine ...

Pathorichuck village, a weaving hub in Assam’s north Lakhimpur, is humming. Women are busy making stoles and scarves with indigenous Mising diamond patterns known as ghai-yamik. Each woman has a big ...

LOS ANGELES — Everyone’s done it at some point — crank up the water on the hose on a sunny day just to see that wonderful prism of light. Now, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Dawe does us one better by ...

Before the fast-fashion business model made it possible for clothing companies to churn out 700 shirts a day, textiles in the 19th century were created using a much slower and more mathematical ...