While studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, last year — a city famous for its love of beautiful design — Catherine "Ellis" Price decided that creating textiles was her calling. The first textile ...

The role of textiles in the history of modern interiors and design, often unrecognized, gets the spotlight at an exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History and Material ...

NAHA, Japan >> Bashofu, a light, cool fabric well suited for a summer kimono, is a traditional textile of Okinawa prefecture. The production of this unique fabric relies heavily on manual labor.

Despite the decline of manufacturing jobs, the owners of a Schenectady-based company hope new technology will bring the art of designing and producing textiles back. Advertisement Article continues ...

Look through your closet and you’d be hard-pressed to find a fabric that is not a blend of multiple fibers. The most common is a cotton-polyester blend: a soft comfortable material that is cheap to ...

A Charlotte-based company has purchased a Mount Holly factory site that was formerly known as the Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company. Red Hill Ventures plans to expand the factory site into a larger ...

If you’ve recently visited a biennial or attended an art fair, museum, or gallery show, you’ve probably noticed that textiles are showing up everywhere amid a surge of interest in the medium. It has ...

U.S. textile and apparel factories will employ nearly 350,000 people by 2015, according to Textile World, which provides news about the industry. Laws that hold employers responsible for worker safety ...