The Textile Museum’s vibrant collection—including centuries-old carpets, antique kimonos and sarongs, Egyptian mummy wraps, and even a black feather dress designed in the 1960s by Givenchy for ...

Established in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers, The Textile Museum is an international center for the exhibition, study, collection and preservation of the textile arts. The Museum explores the role that ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t vacuum a priceless antique rug with a Hoover, and the Textile Museum will use one of its largest gifts ever to buy specialized care and preservation equipment for its collection ...

WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations ...

Long before ragas, chicken tikka or Bollywood movies were exported from India, there was brisk international demand for the subcontinent’s textiles. These items didn’t simply trickle from local ...

Today, the Textile Museum announced a new affiliation with George Washington University. The announcement brought word of the museum’s move to the university’s Foggy Bottom campus and inclusion in a ...

After a three-year, $33 million construction and integration process, the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., have opened their doors. The ...

LOWELL — The American Textile History Museum has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with Lowell developer Loft Properties LLC for a portion of the museum’s 491 Dutton St. property. The building will ...