One of the country’s most extensive collections of textile machinery currently sits in Randolph County warehouses, and it could soon form the basis for North Carolina’s first new state-run history ...

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

For 100 years, a D.C. museum has offered views of some of the rarest and most beautiful handmade kimonos, intricate Persian rugs and vivid robes of Taoist priests. The Textile Museum at George ...

WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations ...

An expert has cured a mystery malfunction which stopped a vintage textile machine working at Leeds Industrial Museum. The museum's Victorian mule, which has spun yarn for more than a century, broke ...

From 20th century aprons to commodity bag dresses, the Textile and Costume Museum at LSU explores fashion and textiles through the ages. The museum's exhibition “Trajé, Maya Textile Artistry” is ...