A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...

A new exhibition at the Museum of American Heritage presents the history of textile production in the United States from homespun of colonial times through mass-production in the industrial age.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Walking through the North Carolina Museum of History, you'll find that every item tells a different story about the state and the people who have shaped it. Textiles are a ...

Cotton mills and the surrounding housing, often built by the mill owners for their workers, shaped the fabric of small towns and cities throughout the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The textile ...

It can be easy to take for granted the processes involved in creating the clothes we wear, but a new exhibit at the Science History Institute aims to shed light on one aspect of textile creation: dyes ...

I've always much enjoyed the work of Virginia Postrel (who, among many other things, was once the editor-in-chief of Reason), and I'm delighted to report that she'll be guest-blogging this week about ...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ voyage, the Mayflower II at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts has undergone a three-year refurbishment. It’s the first major overhaul since the replica ...

KEARNEY — “A Frank Journey Through Textiles” will be presented by Autumn Langemeier at the Kearney Public Library noon-1 p.m. Dec. 1. Textiles often are displayed in museum collections as examples of ...

The history of textiles in Peru started 5,000 years ago when pre-Inca and Inca civilization weavers mastered natural cotton and alpaca fibers. Now, these ancestral techniques, combined with modern ...

Photos and artifacts from Clifton Mills are showcased as part of a traveling exhibit from the S.C. State Museum on display at the Spartanburg County Headquarters Library. Converse College students ...

FALL RIVER — School vacation is just a few weeks away, moms and dads, and depending on how many kids you have and how old they are, it might take you anywhere from one to, oh, four hours or so before ...