textileandtrim:

I took a tour of the White Oak Cone denim mill in Greensboro, NC.  I put together this video to present back to my design and buying teams at Anthropologie.

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philamuseum:

Q & A: Scottish Samplers from the Whitman Sampler Collection

Chances are, you’ve seen the traditional yellow “Sampler” box of Whitman’s chocolates in drugstores before. But you may not know that the Philadelphia-based chocolate company amassed a vast collection of actual samplers, or…

I did some shopping at Metersbonwe in Harbin, but didn’t realize they have a museum in Shanghai!

wgsn:

We visited the Metersbonwe Museum in Shanghai this week. Metersbonwe is one of the largest and most influential fashion groups in China.

The Art of Gaman, showcasing some of the art created by Japanese-Americans in internment campus during WWII.

Totem pole carving at the National Museum of the American Indian →

Golden Spider Silk Cape, on view through June 5 at the V&A

This display showcases the world’s largest pieces of cloth made from spider silk. It includes a brocaded shawl made from the silk of more than one million female golden orb-weaver spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar, as well as a cape on public display for the first time. The display also features background material and a short film revealing the process. 

(via Golden Spider Silk Cape / Exhibitions & Galleries / Happenings / V&A Channel)

Photos from the Japan Society’s recently completed show, “Fiber Futures”.

thedesigncenter:

Embroidered silk armband. China. 

This armband inspired one of the city of Philadelphia’s vinyl wrapped recycling trucks, a collaboration between The Design Center and Mural Arts Program.

Images from the upcoming exhibition on modern bojagi entitled Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.

Yuzen dyed kimono with bleeding heart flower motif by Japanese Living National Treasure Tajima Hiroshi. The myth of the bleeding heart flower is a sad story that ends with a memorial to the perished young man, in the form of the beautiful flower that helps tell his tale.