You may be familiar with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, but chances are you haven’t come across smocking. This technique refers to the way fabric can be bunched by stitches, often made in ...

Fabric patterns come in all kinds of colors, shapes, sizes, repeats, and schemes. That’s why picking the right fabric patterns—and mixing prints—can be tricky. So we called on a handful of our ...

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Could a flat piece of fabric hold a 3D shape, the way paper does in origami? Aiming to find out, researchers from the Cornell ...

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Anna Andreeva, Exercise with Northern Embroideries, 1968, Gouache and pencil on cardboard (Courtesy the Estate of Anna Andreeva & Layr, Vienna) One of the recurrent themes in her designs, as several ...

Color fastness is important to keep the vibrancy of African textiles. To test this, lightly dampen a small, inconspicuous ...