News
Gay Sheep Make Their High Fashion Debut in NYC
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
Textile Art
Interview
Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón Dyes Wool With Kool-Aid
The Diné weaver and teacher reimagines pre-trading-post-era weaving techniques, continually coloring his practice with new aesthetic and material horizons.
Art Review
A Textile Show Ruptures, Cascades, and Bleeds
Raisa Kabir, Katherine Earle, and Leila Seyedzadeh envelop viewers in conversations about climate change and shifts in cultural identity alike.
Art Review
Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers
The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.
Art Review
Celebrating the Science of Quilts
The eclectic threads of An Ecology of Quilts merge to tell a story that starts outdoors, with seeds sprouting, blooming, and reaching toward the sun.
Art Review
How Textiles Weave Together the Cycle of Life
Four exhibitions currently up in Chicago each take a unique approach to the possibilities of working with textiles today, some with humor, others with gravitas.
Art Review
Tapestries That Contain the World
Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.
Art Review
Eric-Paul Riege Reconfigures the Monument
The artist transforms Diné mythology, weaving, and metal work into something unparalleled and playful.
Features
The Indigenous Artist Making Dazzling Labubu Regalia
Tlingit artist Lily Hope dresses the collectible toy monsters in outfits inspired by traditional Ravenstail and Chilkat weaving practices passed on by her elders.
News
Bayeux Tapestry to Return to UK After Nearly 1,000 Years
The 230-foot-long embroidered textile, which narrates the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century, will be on display at the British Museum next September.
Art Review
Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time
Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds.
Art Review
Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal
People of color are often called upon to perform their identities, but Nguyen’s lush tapestries largely avoid that trap.