How hands-on textile work inspires creativity and growth

Seated on the stone floor of a medieval fortress in Italy's Tuscan hills, students rip thin, one-inch strips of fabric. They ...
Yahoo

Unraveling the Divide: How the Textile-Garment Designer Disconnect Stalls Innovation

Circular design guidelines and the growing demand for technical fabrics have placed a greater emphasis on textiles in recent years. Fiber manufactures and textile mills have adopted consumer-focused ...
Fast Company

What these woven textiles can teach us about respectful design

Molly Fitzpatrick is a textile designer and founder of DittoHouse, an Ohio-based home textile brand for ethically produced textiles. Having designed textiles for a wide variety of markets, including ...
Artnet

Textile Designer Dorothy Liebes, Whose Masterful Use of Color Transformed American Interiors, Finally Gets Her Due at a Major Museum Show

The exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt aims to rectify the artist's erasure from the history of U.S. design. Dorothy Liebes Studio, New York City (ca. 1957). Photo courtesy of the Dorothy Liebes Papers, ...
Tampa Bay Times

Textile designer’s work is inspired by growing up in Tampa Bay

Though living in L.A., she turned nostalgia for home into a new fabric collection. Textile designer Brook Perdigon, shown here in her studio in Los Angeles, grew up in Tampa and recently bought a ...
Harper's BAZAAR

For UTS Fashion & Textile Design Honours graduates, slow design and textile craftsmanship are the future of Australian fashion

From left to right: By Alberta Bucciarelli, Kristie Wang, Bonnie McKee, Monique Farrugia and Isabella Harris. AS A FORMER UTS Fashion and Textiles graduate, it is always exciting returning to a world ...
Architectural Digest

Vera Neumann: Textile Designer, Businesswoman, and Democratic Warrior?

"I honestly could have spent another three years on it," Elissa Auther, the Museum of Arts and Design's Windgate research and collections curator, tells AD PRO of her new exhibition. That showcase, ...
Vogue

This Indian Norwegian Textile Designer Blurs the Line Between Fashion and Art

Young designers are often told to carve out a specific niche, but Helena Bajaj-Larsen’s background is too wide and her ambition too large to be hemmed in by conventional wisdom. The 24-year-old ...
The New York Times

For an Indian Textiles Designer, It Takes Many Villages

Brinda Dudhat, the founder of Morii Design in India, creates modern motifs supported by age-old techniques. By Sarah Archer This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Devendorf weaves computer science and craft to explore new possibilities for textile design

When we think about engineering and computer science, textiles may not come to mind first. Yet woven forms can be extremely complex and are useful in many scientific applications in addition to being ...
The Michigan Daily

Documenting the struggle from Holocaust survivor to prominent textile designer

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On her first day of school in pre-World War II Germany, Ruth Adler Schnee strolled into class in a ...
The New York Times

Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week

The annual festival of furnishings and household objects has several presentations involving cloth materials and techniques. By The New York Times This article is part of our Design special report ...