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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1960s, D.D. and Leslie Tillett worked with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on some historically significant prints. Now the project is being reintroduced to a new generation. By ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crystal Walen, founder of Crystal W Design, is an artist and entrepreneur whose work brings richly textured, handcrafted patterns to the world of interior design. As an illustrative textile designer, ...

"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, ...

Seated on the stone floor of a medieval fortress in Italy's Tuscan hills, students rip thin, one-inch strips of fabric. They then knot the strips together to create extra chunky yarns. With these ...