Step back 300 years into colonial Latin America and the textiles are lavish, fashions often akin to couture, and who wore what was determined not just by what they could afford, but by class and race, ...

POTTSTOWN – What people often throw out today would have been repaired, refreshed, or reused by their colonial counterparts. Visitors to historic Pottsgrove Manor on Saturday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m ...

On Saturday, May 2, the Colonial Plantation will hold its annual spring textile event with sheep shearing. Come watch the Horned Dorset and Hog Island sheep lose their winter coats. Shearing ...

There's a persistent rhythm to the sewing machines at the Colonial Mills factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Needles puncture through cords of cotton and linen, binding yards of fabric into soft ...

"Virgen de los Sastres (Virgin with Tailors)" (c. 1750), Cusco, Peru, oil and gold on canvas, 57 1/2 x 40 3/8 inches (Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art, all images courtesy ...

POTTSTOWN – Historic Pottsgrove Manor will offer a series of workshops on Sundays in August from 1 to 4 p.m, The programs focus on a different colonial textile art each week. Kids 8 to 12 years old ...

A new exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum will give visitors a look at blankets and rugs crafted by 19th-century Navajo artisans when it opens later this summer ...

On May 20, 1498, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, anchored his fleet at Calicut on the Malabar Coast and became the first European to reach India by ...

A Zurich exhibition looks at how the slave trade, colonial exploitation and religious conversion all led to the establishment of Switzerland's textile industry and boosted its wealth. In the 17th ...

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