FeatureFrieze 2019
Woven: a special section at Frieze London links traditional influences with contemporary textile art
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
PreviewExhibitions
Woven conflicts: Hannah Ryggen's fascist-fighting tapestries go on show in Frankfurt
Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist
NewsMiddle East
Tate's huge 'Guernica of the Arab world' is recreated in tapestry so it can travel the world
Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
NewsRestoration
A rich tapestry of English life unfurls in Oxford with restoration of 400-year-old woven maps
Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust
InterviewCheryl Pope
Cheryl Pope on love, representation and the comfort of textile art
The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago
NewsHeritage
Long-lost Tudor tapestry could be saved for the UK
Work commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court Palace left the country in the early 1970s
NewsPodcast
A monument to the Holocaust in textile: Anni Albers’s Six Prayers
On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist
FeatureAnni Albers
Paul Smith gets wrapped up in the work of the Bauhaus
After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer
FeatureAnni Albers
Weaving walls: how Anni Albers challenged Bauhaus prejudice
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
NewsHeritage
Chunks of British Parliament go on sale
Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece