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March 12, 2019
A Textile Conservator Explains How To Deal With Clothes Moths
If the mere thought of clothes moths fluttering out of your closet strikes terror into your heart, imagine if your…
November 21, 2016
What’s A Slub, Anyway?
Perfection has never been cool. Classical sculpture used contrapposto poses to imply a casualness (a coolness?) that rigid symmetry cannot…
April 4, 2016
Talking Shirt Fabrics With The Albini Group
If the Scots are known for their tweed and Americans known for their denim, then the Italians are often credited…
October 14, 2015
The Amazing World Of Japanese Textile Arts
After Jesse posted about our Japanese textile scarves on Monday, I found myself Googling around for more info about boro…
October 12, 2015
Our New Antique Japanese Textile Scarves
Boro tends to come in large pieces. Sometimes it’s a coat, sometimes a bedspread. It’s Japanese cotton, milled in the…
October 7, 2015
Copyright Trolling In Fashion?
Fortune has an interesting article today on the surge of copyright lawsuits over textile designs. Some call it copyright trolling;…
May 15, 2015
A Simple Guide To Fabric Care Symbols
Dug this legend to the baffling pictographs on clothing care labels recently posted by TechnicallyRon, and related commentary on why…
February 18, 2015
A Handy Fabric Reference Guide
Our reader Noah points us to a handy reference guide over at the website of Huddersfield Cloth (an English cloth…
February 10, 2015
Holding Onto Textile Traditions In The Face Of Economic Realities
Martin Fackler has a melancholy piece in The New York Times today about the traditional kimono trade in Japan, and…
February 7, 2015
San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show
Readers in the Bay Area might be interested in attending the San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show this weekend….
October 23, 2014
Textile Arts
A reader who knows about my growing interest in textile arts recently sent me a link to one of the…
September 1, 2014
Boro: The Beauty Of Thrift
I’ve become really interested in other forms of textiles lately. Lots of stuff such as Middle Eastern rugs, Navajo weavings,…
August 18, 2014
American Quilts And Coverlets
It’s not a big jump from appreciating menswear to appreciating textiles, and the greatest of all American textile arts has…
April 8, 2014
How Did This Fabric Get Into My Shirt?
Although certain shirting fabrics and tweeds get a lot of attention, we often focus on the way a shirt or…
June 5, 2013
A Short Guide To The Different Types Of Japenese Textiles
Jonathan at the Bandanna Almanac has a short guide to the different types of Japenese textiles to help you differentiate…