Textile history

During the 1930's, Harold Costain visited the Esmond Textile mills in Esmond, Rhode Island on assignment to photograph a purportedly thriving American textile ...

For as long as women have been sewing, they've been using embroidery to tell their own stories—often in societies that refuse to hear them otherwise.

We visit CTTC and its founder Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez to learn about Peruvian Textiles and what's being done to protect Andean craft for future generations

You all — especially our Patreon supporters, whose requests we take very seriously! — have been asking for an in-depth review of The Duchess (2008) for a while now, but I’ll admit to being overwhel…

The story of India’s exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored pri...

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today.

Detail of weeping eye motif showing tears.Magnification 10x. Image by Cristina Balloffet Carr ca.1600,British. Leather,satin worked with silk and metal thread,seed pearls;satin,couching, and darning stitches;metal bobbin lace;paper. L.12 1/4 x W.6 1/4 inches (31.1 x 15.9 cm) Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1928 (28.220.7, .8)

Step into the vibrant world of Natural Dye Fabric where science and art meet Discover Dye Plants that fueled Indigo Dyeing and the legacy of African Indigo. Explore Dyeing Fabric with Earth Pigments that colored ancient textiles and shaped cultures. Bright hues rich stories its all here #gg #blogoracle #ancientdyes

This is going to be a bit of a history lesson that highlights some fundamental textile machines that have created the textile industry and fashion as we know it today.