With strategically used patterns, a room can be styled particularly elegantly. Certain patterns are even indispensable for ...

In Western culture, the perception of weaving as “women’s work” can be traced back to Penelope, the loyal wife of Homer’s wandering Odysseus who cleverly put off her insistent suitors for years by ...

The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. “It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,” one master artisan says. By Patricia Leigh Brown ...

The Woven Histories exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada includes a large room hung entirely with rectangles and squares. One of them is an important abstract painting, a fine grid pencilled ...

In the China Pavilion at the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, a piece of bamboo art resembling a Taihu Lake Stone was the center of attention. Qian Lihuai's bamboo weaving ...

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, is getting a high-tech collaborator: artificial intelligence.

It was the late 1960s and early ’70s, a moment in which the art establishment was in a full-on bromance with Minimalism: stacked boxes, chilly neon, hand-drawn grids, not to mention all that trippy ...

Chaw Su Hlaing calls her work ‘eco print’. She not only prepares her dye naturally -- from indigo, fruit peels, sticks, flowers and what not -- she also collects perfect specimens of leaves and ...