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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...