Ancient Andean Textiles

Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH, United States

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 […]

Mixed Media: Woven Abstractions of Berber Woman

Alberto Levi Gallery Milano, Italy

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 […]

Weaving a Foundation: Cornerstones of the Textile Arts Collection

Denver Art Museum Denver, CO, United States

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 […]

The Global Language of Headwear: Cultural Identity, Rites of Passage & Spirituality

Hoyt Art Center New Castle, PA, United States

From headdresses and helmets to turbans and crowns, explore the vital role of ceremonial headwear throughout diverse cultural customs, beliefs, and rituals. This exhibition features headwear from forty-two countries spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, most dating from the mid to late 20th century, with many types still worn […]

Interlacing in African Textiles

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

This focus exhibition explores the concept of interlacing through a display of nineteenth and twentieth-century woven and dyed textiles from West and Central Africa. Image: Dioula weaver and dyer, Côte d’Ivoire. Man’s Wrapper, mid-20th century. Cotton and dye. 112 1/4 × 84 in. (285.12 × 213.36 cm).

Handstitched Worlds: Cartography of Quilts

Fleming Museum of Art University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States

Quilts, like maps, trace the personal stories and experiences of makers and their communities, often illuminating larger historical events and cultural trends.   Handstitched Worlds draws from the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, with examples ranging from traditional early-American quilts to contemporary sculptural assemblages.  Image: Artist unknown (Va.), Map Quilt, 1886. Image courtesy of the […]

Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII

Saint Louis Art Museum St. Louis, MO, United States

Saint Louis, Missouri. With a focus on Britain, Italy, and the United States, Bolts of Color highlights the Museum’s recent acquisitions of post-WWII textiles, all made during the height of the experimental screen printing era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Featuring works by well-known artists like Rockwell Kent and Lucio Fontana and trailblazing designers like Althea […]

iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa

Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe, New Mexico

Museum of International Folk Art November 17, 2024 – November 17, 2025. Santa Fe, New Mexico Foregrounding artists’ voices, Weaving Meanings shares histories of the wire medium in South Africa, from the 16th century uses as currency to the dazzling artworks wire weavers create today. From beer pot lids (izimbenge) to platters and plates, from […]