Installation view of Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles at Two Temple Place (© Two Temple Place. Photography by Richard Eaton, www.richardeaton.net) LONDON — Untethering women from the ...

The "story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity," wrote Virginia Postrel, author of "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World." We may not notice, but much of our language—and ...

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...

Several times a month, women from Afghanistan, Syria, Nepal, and Burma come together in the Bevo Mill neighborhood to learn how to create jewelry and textiles. Necklaces, earrings, and bangles are ...

The textiles women produced made our civilization what it is. By Virginia Postrel Ms. Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...

“Drawing on archaeological, anthropological, historical, literary, and personal accounts, Nehrig argues persuasively for the centrality of [textile] work … from prehistory to the present... A ...

The Vikings of legend were fearless male warriors who raided coastal towns across Europe. But archaeological research shows that Viking women were just as integral to the expansion of Viking society ...

“When I am dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten, When this you see remember me, or else I shall be forgotten.” These moody words wouldn’t be out of place in a teenage diary. They’re found ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Walking through the North Carolina Museum of History, you'll find that every item tells a different story about the state and the people who have shaped it. Textiles are a ...

Critics say the government is not doing enough to protect Albanian textile exporters from the rapidly strengthening lek currency. Most of the industry’s employees are women at risk of sliding into ...

Suffragists watch as Alice Paul sews stars onto banner. The “story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity,” wrote Virginia Postrel, author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...