Nestled in the historic cobblestoned streets of Manhattan's breezy Seaport District is an unsuspecting exhibition orienting us toward the future of contemporary fiber art. The Golden Thread: A Fiber ...

Marie Palmer's desk is covered in a swirl of color — a turquoise sewing machine, boxes overflowing with thread, and acrylic landscape paintings in various states of completion. She sits in her pink ...

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press, 'The Atlas of World Embroidery' celebrates the global history of a timeless ...

The exhibition center for thread artist Son In-sook is located in the most unlikely place: on the first floor of a four-bedroom apartment in Gaepo-dong, southern Seoul. Son used to live there but now ...

A stitch is an ordinary device, but when it's used for decorative purposes, there's magic in it. That premise underpins a new exhibition at the Folk Art Center that includes more than 60 needlework ...

Embroidery may not be a new concept, but the use of thread, as a medium of expression, is not as popular as other traditional media. For now, soft and flexible material have come to stay, as artists ...

Days after the 2016 election, India Tresselt was watching HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” when the host urged viewers to remind themselves every day, “This is not normal.” The Westford ...

Using embroidery thread, round wooden board, nails and algorithms, Le Van Manh can produce a person's portrait in seven hours with his unusual 'string art.' Le Van Manh (right, front row) poses with ...

Cheeky cross-stitch and pop-feminist embroidery are trending. Is it time for fabric-based works to be taken as seriously as oil on canvas? Last year, when Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a ‘Nasty ...

Asif Shaikh, who cultivated a fascination with fine fabrics from a young age, has played a vital role in reviving India’s rich textile legacy A new art collection using hand embroidery in its finest ...

BANGALORE, India — Across India, there has always been a rich tradition of embroidery work, from the humble kantha of West Bengal to the opulent zardosi of Uttar Pradesh. In recent years, a new ...