Archaeologists recently found a rare textile at Colonial Michilimackinac, using metal threads that helped preserve fibers for ...

Step back 300 years into colonial Latin America and the textiles are lavish, fashions often akin to couture, and who wore what was determined not just by what they could afford, but by class and race, ...

"Virgen de los Sastres (Virgin with Tailors)" (c. 1750), Cusco, Peru, oil and gold on canvas, 57 1/2 x 40 3/8 inches (Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art, all images courtesy ...

On May 20, 1498, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, anchored his fleet at Calicut on the Malabar Coast and became the first European to reach India by ...

There's a persistent rhythm to the sewing machines at the Colonial Mills factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Needles puncture through cords of cotton and linen, binding yards of fabric into soft ...

Colonial Textile Culture in Mid-Nineteenth Century Aotearoa New Zealand Colonial textile culture in the 19th century was both transnational and domestic. It spanned the circulation of commodities, ...

A Zurich exhibition looks at how the slave trade, colonial exploitation and religious conversion all led to the establishment of Switzerland's textile industry and boosted its wealth. In the 17th ...

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