Avoid folding tapestries and rugs. If a fold is ever necessary, it should be made in the direction that is most natural for the textile, usually parallel to the weft (perpendicular to the selvages).

In choosing textiles, Morabito explores the status of the art form itself, which has historically been held in lower regard than painting. Morabito refers to these works as tapestries, using the ...

Now, a long lost fragment of the epic textile has been rediscovered in Germany. The Bayeux Tapestry’s richly detailed embroidery is a key source for understanding the brutal battle that unfolded ...

Typically, tapestries, weavings, needlepoint and similar textile works are made for utilitarian purposes — pillows, coasters, antimacassars and the like. But back in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s ...

Rafi Hoq told Newsweek he was "moved" when someone online revealed the tapestry's potential origins and worth.

The artist’s tapestries, which incorporate distorted self-portraits and screenshots from the internet, feel both ephemeral ...

The find came from the collection of Karl Schlabow, a renowned textile archaeologist who worked ... to occupied France and study the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941. At some point, a member of the group ...

A strategic location at the nexus of East-West maritime trade saw Terengganu flourish as a production centre for traditional textiles songket and batik, which are now deeply woven into Malaysia's ...

Members of the Houlton Womens Institute have paid tribute to the trailblazing weavers of the Bauhaus to celebrate ...