As part of the museum’s Galleries of the Ancient Americas, this rotation features textiles from the Paracas people of Peru’s south coast between about 3000 BCE and the early 1500s CE. These ancient Andean weavers created one of the world’s most distinguished textile traditions in both artistic and technical terms. Most artistically elaborate Andean textiles […]

Alberto Levi Gallery. Mixed Media: Woven Abstractions of Berber Women. Online exhibition. Milano, Italy. This online exhibition of Berber woven art is an expression of the sheer ingenuity and versatility of rugs woven with varied materials and motifs. The last two decades of the previous millennium have witnessed the arrival on the Moroccan scene of previously […]

Features an eclectic presentation of 60 objects from Indigenous traditions across the world, including regions of the American Southwest and Mexico; India and Pakistan, and the Indonesian islands of Bali, Java, and Sumatra. The first textile entered the museum almost 100 years ago, and since that time, textile arts have been regular additions to the […]

An exhibition of rare and artful cushions and bed covers woven by women for their households. Such textiles, many with inscribed dates from 1750 to 1840, were used or displayed for special occasions and were a significant form of decoration for the typical household. The design elements and patterns of colorful geometric patterns, exotic birds, […]

Ever since the cultivation of silkworms was introduced to Japan from China during the third and fourth centuries CE., Japanese people have used silk to create items of clothing and decorative works of art for hundreds of years. Shimmering Silks: Traditional Japanese Textiles celebrates silk pieces from the collection of the SLAM, which has been […]