Circular design guidelines and the growing demand for technical fabrics have placed a greater emphasis on textiles in recent years. Fiber manufactures and textile mills have adopted consumer-focused ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roddy Clarke is a UK-based design writer and speaker. After completing her studies in fashion and upholstery, Sonia Laudet decided ...

Though living in L.A., she turned nostalgia for home into a new fabric collection. Textile designer Brook Perdigon, shown here in her studio in Los Angeles, grew up in Tampa and recently bought a ...

African textile designers are taking the world of fashion by storm, thanks to their bold patterns and rich cultural heritage ...

In the late 1960s, D.D. and Leslie Tillett worked with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on some historically significant prints. Now the project is being reintroduced to a new generation. By ...

There’s a story behind each thread of a handcrafted weave. On National Textile Day today, designers talk about how vital textile design has become to their creative process — and why you shouldn’t ...

Seated on the stone floor of a medieval fortress in Italy's Tuscan hills, students rip thin, one-inch strips of fabric. They then knot the strips together to create extra chunky yarns. With these ...

Crystal Walen, founder of Crystal W Design, is an artist and entrepreneur whose work brings richly textured, handcrafted patterns to the world of interior design. As an illustrative textile designer, ...