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There is a little mannequin which has played a hidden role in history. We admire the portraits of the great men and women of the past dresse...

In a small corner of London lies one of the most evocative collection of textiles anywhere in the world. The fabrics – which are quite ordin...

An extraordinary new exhibition has just opened in the small Alabama township of Gees Bend, and it gives us some clues as to why this commun...

It's nearly five years since the Anglo Trinidadian textile designer, Althea McNish, died in near obscurity in London. In that time her reput...

Textiles have a tremendous power to hold our culture and identity, more so than most understand. For thousands of years the Coast Salish peo...

Hooked rugs are humble things made of recycled cloth and worn out textiles, originally born of need and lack: and yet they have come to mean...

If you were asked to stitch a picture of your brain what would it look like? A project that looks at the connection between our hands and ou...

If we need proof that textiles can rewrite human history, then it lies with the bog bodies of northern Europe. Textile archaeologists are re...

Here's a surprise! An extra episode of Haptic & Hue. We said we were taking a break for July and August and yes, we are. But we thought we w...

A very special tartan has just started to roll off the weaving looms of the Prickly Thistle Mill in the north of Scotland. This brand-new de...

Early this year there was a catastrophic fire at the world's biggest market for selling and upcycling second-hand clothes. Kantamanto market...

Creativity and invention aren't words often associated with hardship and suffering, but in the Second World War women in America and Britain...

There's a fashion technique that's been in continuous use for over five thousand years – proof, if proof is needed, that there is nothing ne...

What happens when one of the most traditional museums in the world revolutionises the way it presents the story of the past? The answer is n...

Tapestries for Troubled Times The stitches of the Bayeux Tapestry fix the story of the Norman Conquest of England in our imaginations in an...

A coarse, plain cloth has a greater claim to being the most important textile in history than any sumptuous silk brocade or royal robe. Sail...

There is a global flax revival underway. In the great linen belt of North Western Europe, the land under cultivation has more than doubled i...

Exactly thirty years ago a book came out that changed the way we think about textiles and fibre and the role they've played in the human sto...

The American cotton feed sack is the stuff of legend. From the 1850s onwards it was skilfully repurposed by women across America into all ki...

An extraordinary quilt handstitched by convict women on board ship as they were transported from Britain to Australia in 1841 has just gone...
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