Book Review
How Liberty Fabrics Weaves Design and Art History
Kassia St. Clair, who specializes in color, explores its historical connection to artists and art movements in a book timed with the company’s 150th anniversary.
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Preserving Indigo and Woven Grass Practices in Northern Ghana
Despite a lack of investment in the region’s cultural practices, artisans are looking for ways to make local craft economically sustainable for their communities.
Art
Dala Nasser Builds a Grief Temple in Chicago
Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.
Books
The Stories Behind the World’s Most Coveted Dyes
Dyed garments were once treasured items whose colors could take significant time, long distances, and untold fortunes to produce.
Books
A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
Art
The Ancient Tradition of Maya Weaving in the 21st Century
Maya women in Guatemala continue to practice forms of backstrap weaving that have thrived in Central America for centuries, even adapting them to more contemporary uses like handbags.
Art
Contradictory Patterns and Decorative Illusions
One of the more promising avenues that postmodernism explored was to seek out the nether regions that modernism forgot.