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 ...

History and stories are woven together with fibre and feather in Toi Maori - The Eternal Thread: Te Aho Mutunga Kore – The Changing Art of Maori Weaving which goes on display 25 February in the Maori ...

Vibrant and joyful with eye-popping colors and textures, “Thread” at the Long Beach Museum of Art pushes the boundaries of textile art. Selected works range from modern to contemporary and display the ...

I am sitting in the weaving room of the Jewish Community Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Outside, the Susquehanna River is rolling past, deep and rough and dusty sage-blue. Church bells ring out the hymn ...

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 ...

For the first time, researchers led by Tufts University engineers have integrated nano-scale sensors, electronics and microfluidics into threads – ranging from simple cotton to sophisticated ...