A Tenuous Thread is a retrospective encompassing five decades of creative output by master weaver Bhakti Ziek. Arranged chronologically, this exhibit charts the evolution of Ziek'spioneering approach to weaving alongside a […]

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, […]

While the Cloth as Land exhibition emphasizes contemporary HMong artists, there's an entire section dedicated to traditional textiles made by HMong artisans from around the U.S. and Southeast Asia dating […]

The process of creating textiles has long been a springboard for artistic invention. In Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, two extraordinary bodies of work separated by at least 500 […]

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 […]

Carpets and canopies designated portable courtly spaces among nomadic groups. The Mughals of India used carpets and canopies to mark royal presence. Even when the Mughals settled in permanent stone […]

From tradition to trendsetting, today South Korea is a cultural superpower. But behind the country’s meteoric rise to the world stage—a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave, or hallyu—is the […]

In the late nineteenth century, Amish women adopted an artform already established within the larger American culture and made it distinctly their own. They pushed cultural limitations by innovating within […]

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 […]

Folk art and craft are deeply rooted in traditions frequently passed down through generations. Steeped in cultural heritage, the techniques and skills are a living record of the past and […]