From Lubaina Himid's colonial cotton at the Holburne Museum to a group survey at the Barbican, the once maligned medium is in the spotlight

The artist, who was wrongfully incarcerated for almost 42 years, will receive $25,000 and a solo stand at this year’s edition of the fair

The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining

Cooper Hewitt in New York celebrates the creator of vibrant mid-century Modern textiles

The fashion designer’s fantastical sketches are given equal billing with the dresses that made him famous

Basil Kincaid's sculpture at the fair incorporates textiles the artist has sourced from St Louis, Ghana and elsewhere since 2016

The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage

A show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays more than 120 Japanese textiles made from the stuff of nature

Plus, the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance and Ruth Asawa at Modern Art Oxford

Each work in the Harlem-born artist’s biggest retrospective to date deserves equal attention

Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes

Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts

Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"

How one woman’s frustrations inspired an army of needlework artists—and a series of exhibitions

Eight solo gallery presentations explore textiles, from knotted biomorphic hemp forms to Bauhaus-inspired geometric compositions in silk, cotton and paper at this year's fair

Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist

Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"

The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”

Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust

The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago

From repurposing commercially made tapestries to weaving works themselves, contemporary artists take on textiles

Work commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court Palace left the country in the early 1970s

On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist

After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer

Founder Walter Gropius had limited expectations of the school’s “beautiful sex”, but one student quietly subverted them with a new category: the textile artist

Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece