A work needn’t be featured on canvas to be considered art. Take a bold textile, such as a tapestry, rug, throw, drapery or a piece of antique clothing displayed under glass, which can completely ...

Embroidered pieces, woven works, fiber-based creations—textile art (also known as fiber art) can be many things, but one thing is certain: It creates an inspired tapestry wherever you display it.

WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...

Whether we understand it or not, humans have an intimate relationship with textiles. There is the joy of slipping on a favorite pair of socks, or the wave of relief that washes over someone’s body as ...

Joan Miró, “Rhythmic Figures” (Personnages rythmiques) or “Woman and Birds, Woven in Aubusson” (1934), cotton and wool with silk. 77 × 69 inches, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (© Successió Miró ...

Lunchable is a feature of the UC Davis Arts Blog that recommends art exhibitions or other attractions that can be viewed during a short lunch break or other short periods of free time. The Design ...

Fiber art is having much more than a moment, with increasing market attention paid to artists working in this medium as well as institutional recognition left and right. As just one prominent example, ...

The Textiles area is grounded in traditional textile techniques and materials, as well as modern and contemporary processes and materials. You will explore a variety of techniques (dyeing and sewing, ...

Padmaavat, Heeramandi designer Harpreet Narula on art, markets and textiles shaping contemporary Indian visual culture today When Harpreet Narula speaks about art, he does so from a vantage point ...

Brinda Dudhat, the founder of Morii Design in India, creates modern motifs supported by age-old techniques. By Sarah Archer This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for ...

The topic has been hotly debated in art circles for decades, but the latest crop of participants in the Dior Lady Art project suggests the medium is thriving — as evidenced by a resurgence of textile ...

In the late 1960s, D.D. and Leslie Tillett worked with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on some historically significant prints. Now the project is being reintroduced to a new generation. By ...