Identify someone as a “fabric artist” these days, and most people will have some idea of what you’re talking about: cavernous webs of yarn filling a gallery, or fine-art quilts you hang on a wall ...

It is not uncommon for artists to have a second job, a way to pay the bills until the art can. For Jenny Welden, that job was teaching ballroom dancing. “I taught over 20 styles of ballroom dance and ...

Kalamkari is one of India’s oldest and most treasured forms of hand-painted and block-printed textile art, dating back over 3,000 years. The term ‘Kalamkari’ is derived from the Persian words kalam ...

Fabrics and textiles remind Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri of home. When she was a child, Amiri would visit her uncle’s Kabul tailor shop before school. And when her family fled Taliban-ruled ...