There is an opinion that true art should be made of marble. Or at least painted in oil on canvas. But there are people in this world who create something so incredible with the simplest threads and ...

A stitch is an ordinary device, but when it's used for decorative purposes, there's magic in it. That premise underpins a new exhibition at the Folk Art Center that includes more than 60 needlework ...

Marie Palmer's desk is covered in a swirl of color — a turquoise sewing machine, boxes overflowing with thread, and acrylic landscape paintings in various states of completion. She sits in her pink ...

“The act of hand weaving and dyeing cloth is extremely labour intensive – it can take months to make one piece,” says British artist Ptolemy Mann, who has been creating textile works of extraordinary ...

Long caught in the liminal space between craft and something more prestigious, works of thread and fabric are reaching newfound institutional recognition. Sheila Hicks, photographed at her studio in ...

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Jones, Arthur F. and Bruce Weber, "The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War," Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1981, no. 3.