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Two Navajo Artists Weave New Histories

by Susannah Abbey March 30, 2022March 31, 2022

Zefren-M and Morris Muskett find self-expression through contemporary weaving.

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Museums Partner to Establish Palestine’s First Textile Conservation Studio

by Valentina Di Liscia March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

The Palestinian Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum received a $480,000 grant to conserve Palestinian textiles.

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Crafting a Future Is a Clarion Call to Support Indigenous Arts

by Anindya Sen February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Today, India’s handwoven and hand-spun fabrics and master artisans find themselves at existential crossroads, facing threats of obsolescence and urbanization.

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New Folk Art Museum Celebrates the Rise of Craft During the Pandemic

by Renée Reizman January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

Self-taught artists were invited to exhibit, and sell, their fuzzy stacks of pancakes and tasseled tapestries.

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Stitched Scenes of Everyday Life in LA’s Boyle Heights

by Lauren Moya Ford December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

Erick Medel’s labor-intensive pieces pay tribute to the labor being done around him.

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A Japanese Designer’s Vision for Beautiful, Sustainable Textiles

by Lauren Moya Ford November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

“Our guiding principle is to make things that don’t get old and thrown away,” says Sudō Reiko.

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Faced With a Complex Sense of Home, Jagdeep Raina Turns to Art

by Lauren Moya Ford October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

“I’ve always felt that home is a fraught place which is constantly going through ruptures,” says Jagdeep Raina.

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Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest

by Billy Anania September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

Tabitha Arnold’s rugs pay tribute to organizers who lay their bodies on the line in the workplace, in the public square, and in the depths of private prisons.

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An Artist’s Hand Towels, Woven During the Pandemic

by Lauren Moya Ford August 10, 2021August 10, 2021

Doerte Weber’s weavings reproduce the ubiquitous charts and graphics related to infection rates, deaths, and unemployment.

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Rosie Lee Tompkins’s Textiles Offer Windows Into Other Worlds

by Serena W. Lin September 22, 2020November 5, 2020

Tompkins’s quilts are at turns abstract beauties, political statements, faith-based texts, and textile craft.

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In Sonia Gomes’s Hands, Textiles Evoke Resilience

by Ela Bittencourt September 2, 2020August 31, 2021

With her New York debut on the horizon, the Afro-Brazilian artist, known for her seductive, textile-based sculptures, is finally, and rightfully, receiving international recognition.

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Marie Cuttoli, the Entrepreneur Who Brought Modern Art to the Textile Industry

by Ilene Dube July 23, 2020November 5, 2020

Cuttoli recruited artists like Picasso and Man Ray to design textiles for her workshops in Algeria and shop in Paris, bringing Modernism to a broader audience in the early 20th century.

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