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Preserving the Art of Palestinian Taṭrīz 76 Years After the Nakba
An online archive of digitized patterns features more than 1,000 motifs pertaining to the traditional embroidery art form.
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Fiber Art Is the Binding Thread at This Manhattan Show
A group exhibition by BravinLee Programs pushes the boundaries of the already open-ended medium through more than 100 works.
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At Age 81, Carole Harris Is Embracing Imperfection
Her creations have a beautiful economy, where even rusty old machine parts might become transformed into a gilded patina on one of her sensuous memory maps.
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A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.
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Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity
Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs.
Interview
Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit
The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings.
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The Stitch Artist Helping Combat Media Fatigue
Diana Weymar collaborated with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to center the work of writers tackling economic and racial justice — using embroidery.
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The Miraculous Life of an Early Black American Abolitionist and Craftsman
James Forten was a decolonizer, feminist, father, husband, and craftsman extraordinaire, an organizer, a leader of the elite free community of African Americans.
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Katie Shulman’s Delicate Dance With Fiber
If the body as a point of inspiration was once an innocent or abstract notion for the fiber artist, her more recent work can no longer avoid the body as battleground.
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What's Threaded in Vegas, Stays in Vegas
Moving too fast on your commute, looking out of the corner of your eye one second too late, and you might miss HOTTEA’s yarn installations.
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The Tender Art of “Visible Mending”
Repair Shop founders Rachel Meade Smith and Sam Bennett invite us to commune with the vulnerability of garments and to comprehend the fragility of our own bodies.
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The Story of an Experimental Craft Colony in New Jersey
Peters Valley began as an experimental colony, eventually evolving into a craft school of prominent women blacksmiths, ceramicists, and fiber artists.