The move by the 88-year-old Textile Museum from its historic DuPont Circle home to the campus of George Washington University has been heralded as visionary. The $33 million project is also dauntingly ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington's 87-year-old Textile Museum is moving closer to having a new home. The Washington Post reports a groundbreaking is scheduled for next week for the new George Washington ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t vacuum a priceless antique rug with a Hoover, and the Textile Museum will use one of its largest gifts ever to buy specialized care and preservation equipment for its collection ...

The Textile Museum’s vibrant collection—including centuries-old carpets, antique kimonos and sarongs, Egyptian mummy wraps, and even a black feather dress designed in the 1960s by Givenchy for ...

After a three-year, $33 million construction and integration process, the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., have opened their doors. The ...

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 ...

LOWELL — G. Gordon Osborne and his wife Marjorie meant a lot to the American Textile History Museum in Lowell. Gordon, a longtime supporter of the museum, was instrumental in establishing the museum’s ...

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 ...

Alpacas such as those seen here on Shady Pine Farms in North Hopewell Township are relatively new to York County, Pa., soil. But as the desire for natural fibers has grown in America, this South ...