Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world ... The exhibition “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Arthur M.

“A bold textile can act like a piece of art or a painting in a room,” Villinger ... Prints and Multiples department as well as the Rugs and Carpets department. Contemporary works are mostly ...

“Talented textile artists enhanced the formal style of this ... It's a grand Persian carpet. “Look closely, and you will see traces of metallic brocade glinting between colorful flowers ...

More than half are Textile Museum holdings ... Just upstairs from the carpets, a site-specific installation by contemporary American artist Anne Lindberg, “What Color Is Divine Light?,” ...

Strands of discarded yarn from a textile manufacturer become the sky ... by Alexandra Kehayoglou in project intersecting fine art and carpet making. The artist retrieves scraps and unwanted ...

Marcos Kueh, a Kuching-born artist, introduced himself as a “textile artist” at the recent ... be mistaken for artistic interpretations of carpets. These “woven posters,” showcased as ...

The clothes we wear, the sheets we sleep on, the carpets beneath our feet. Textiles are everywhere ... an applicé wearable art coat and a hand-painted Chinese wedding cloth showing a hare ...

In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian ... float against the red ground of a carpet; naturalistic roses inspired by Mughal ...

At first glance, Faig Ahmed’s carpets look like digital ... Ahmed to begin working in textiles after years of focusing on paintings, video and installation art, Kate Sierzputowski writes for ...