IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Using an elaborate silk quilt, such ...

Hindu mythology says that silk purifies our body and soul. Perhaps why silk has been an integral part of our rituals. According to feng shui, silk generates positive energy. Now, silk quilts are quite ...

Four Centuries of Quits by Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey (Image courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Association with Yale University Press) Does quilting count as art? In Four ...

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For 13 years, textile artist Edjohnetta Miller has been weaving her life story in the airy, open rooms of her Plainfield Street home. Climbing the wooden staircase to her third-floor studio, where ...

Murrysville artist Patty Kennedy-Zafred can remember seeing the heartbreaking photographs shot by Lewis Hine in the early 1900s, documenting working conditions for juveniles for the National Child ...

The Guangxi Yizhou Hongji Cocoon Silk Co, founded on March 30, 2007, is the holder of the Liu Sanjie brand, with its production located in the city of Yizhou, in northwestern Guangxi, which has ...