An Ithaca mother and daughter are inviting Americans to help create a quilt for a future National Mall display.

Class 203 is turning old shirts, baby blankets, a stripy skirt and pink polka-dot curtains into a "Story Rug" for their ...

That time of year when braiding shops fill with women eager to protect their hair and make styling easy as they enjoy park ...

Creating jumbo knotless braids starts with a well-planned sectioning pattern that complements different head shapes and ...

For years, a story that slaves' cornrows hid maps and messages to facilitate their escapes to freedom spread online as the stuff of internet legend. The idealistic story, indicative of the very real ...

The average person throws away dozens of pounds of clothing every single year. Mountains of discarded garments pile up in landfills while perfectly good material goes to waste. Giving old clothes a ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

Textiles are vital to our lives. We are swaddled in them when we’re born, we wrap our bodies in them every day, and we’re shrouded in them when we die. What does it mean to imagine a needle, a loom or ...

The emergence of a pandemic affecting the respiratory system can result in a significant demand for face masks. This includes the use of cloth masks by large sections of the public, as can be seen ...

In February 2019, a Facebook user shared a post (archived here) that showed patterns for hairstyles with a claim that slaves used braid patterns to plot out routes to freedom: What if I told you all, ...