Walking into the Textiles and Clothing Museum at Iowa State University is like traveling through history and visiting another culture all at the same time. In celebration of its fifth anniversary, the ...

Clothing is one of our most basic needs, along with food and shelter — but textiles are also important symbols of identity. In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, WTOP is ...

Long before ragas, chicken tikka or Bollywood movies were exported from India, there was brisk international demand for the subcontinent’s textiles. These items didn’t simply trickle from local ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is among the planet’s least hospitable regions and even bears some resemblance to the surface of Mars. But one aspect of the area is not at all otherworldly: The desert contains ...

Six women with a shared passion for history came together this week at the Carroll County Farm Museum to assess antique textiles. As clothing, hand towels, horse apparel, and various other items were ...

The Frist Art Museum presents Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, an exhibition of Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish textiles drawn from ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The story of human history can be found within the seams of the clothes we wear, according to the director and curator of the LSU Textile and Costume Museum Michael Mamp.

With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs, and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious, and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501–1722).