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 ...

Novelist Terry McMillan has a new passion: textile design. Starting Tuesday, her works will be on display in New York's Central Park. The exhibit benefits Harlem Textile Works, a non-profit ...

Does limitation breed possibility or does freedom and individuality? That’s an interesting question that designers will be facing in the next decade as more and more AI customization programs come ...

As we become increasingly overloaded with complex data about climate change, the Dutch studio Raw Color wants to make information more tangible. These striking blankets visualize the COVID-19 genome ...

A fellow designer once told Elizabeth Whelan that Americans buy 45 pieces of clothing a year. That's a lot, she says, and it's prompted by the many fashion houses that buy fabrics from Asia at a low ...

Always free This exhibition includes a variety of traditional textiles curated by Paul J. Smith, director emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In addition to the traditional ...

Textile designer Cathy Nordström has a plan. ‘I’m working on my fellow Swedes to encourage them to incorporate more color and pattern,’ she confesses to Jennifer Morgan. ‘I think it’s going well; we ...

For longtime product designer Ashley Alford, her new venture combines a pair of her passions – design and hand-painted art. Alford, who has designed for about 10 years for John Robshaw, Lee Jofa, ...

Sarah Espeute, who founded the Marseille brand Oeuvres Sensibles, creates elegant tablecloths that “make people smile.” ...

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