Art
Rosana Paulino Threads Through Painful Histories
The Brazilian artist weaves together archives, family albums, and records of Black suffering to suture a history of Amefricanas.
Textile Art
Art
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.
Art
The Fibers That Make Up Our Lives
Textile techniques serve as medium and metaphor in Unravel at the Barbican Centre, conveying possibilities for art and resistance.
Opinion
My Grandma's Doilies Are Not a Joke
When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?
Art
Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain
The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Interview
Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries
Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.
Interview
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.
Art
Hannah Toticki Searches for Our Guardian Angels
With Storage of the Gods, the artist explores what a spiritual practice can look like in our secular, stressed-out world.
Art
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.
Art
Rachel Perry Sews the Passage of Time
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Perry turned boxes into templates for needlepointed artworks, reflecting an era narrowed to domestic spheres.
Art
For Barrow Parke, Systems Are the Medium
As with the composition of our world, each element is built one strand at a time before being interwoven into a cohesive whole.
Art
Billie Zangewa’s Tableaus of Togetherness
In Zangewa’s colorful textile collages, on view at SITE Santa Fe, the tableaus of our lives are stitched together with intention and memory.