The Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine wrote an article on Porfirio Gutierrez and his family’s ancient weaving traditions.

A piece of textile history from 1633, still in use in Romagna, Italy

Member Jamia Weir writes up a review of our recent Professional Dev Workshop with photographer Cecily Brown. Photos included!

Iris van Herpen showcased her Shift Souls collection at the Musee des Beaux-Arts as part of the haute couture shows in Paris.

Rather than designing couture that others would “memeify” after the fact, Viktor & Rolf designed memes-as-couture.

Interweave published a really great article that outlines the transformation of crochet through the past few centuries. Check out the development of stitch patterns, techniques and tools in western culture.

Current exhibition at Luhring Augustine in NY features work by Zarina, on view through December 22, 2018.

Kanji Hama has dedicated his life to maintaining the traditional Japanese craft of katazome. NY Times Style Magazine article.

Naturalist Peter A. Browne assembled the greatest hair collection in the mid-1800s, which was saved from the trash by a museum curator in the 1970s.

Questions of geography, gender, economics, and culture are at play in this NYTimes’ Material + Culture article. How one “universal tradition” has been adapted, rethought, and remade for the 21st century.

Dezeen blog features three CA artists: Jen Keane, Kayla Mattes, and Lauren Chang (and more)

Anni Albers combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern art. Her first major exhibit in the UK, on now at the Tate Modern through Jan 27, 2019.

How do we value things when we learn to pay so little for them?

Evidence that thoughtful behavior – as in, not buying crap – is having an effect on the fast fashion industry.

Suzie Zuzek, a Pratt textile design graduate, worked as a design artist at screen-printing business Key West Hand Print Fabrics.

“Little’s work merges abstraction and figuration to politely achieve suggestion” 

A KCET documentary features the careers and lives of Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Andrea Chung, Rebecca Campbell and Tanya Aguiñiga.

Porfirio Gutiérrez is well know for his hand-dyed, hand-woven rugs that he and his family create in a small village near Oaxaca.

Judith Leiber passed away on April 28th, just hours after the death of her husband Gerson Leiber.

Crochet techniques appear at Salone Internationale del Mobile, the world’s premiere furniture show.