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Textile art

June 2024

  • Sugarloaf Mountain from the window of Isabela Capeto’s apartment.

    Carnival of colour: fashion designer Isabela Capeto’s Rio apartment

    This 1940s Brazilian home, filled with items reflecting the eclectic taste of its owner, is as breath-taking as the view

April 2024

  • Some of the vibrant textile works created by British artist Ptolemy Mann.

    Dyeing art: Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings – in pictures

  • Helen Hoyte

    Other lives
    Helen Hoyte obituary

  • Faith Ringgold in 2019 at the Serpentine Galleries, London, where her first institutional solo show in Europe was held.

    Faith Ringgold obituary

  • ‘I wanted to soften it’ … Mahama and the swaddled Barbican.

    ‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

February 2024

  • Powerful image … Judy Chicago’s Birth Tear, which appears in Unravel.

    The great women's art bulletin
    You can’t ban embroidery! Why Arts Council England’s crackdown is a stitch-up

    Has anyone behind ACE’s warning about ‘political statements’ been to Unravel? As this tumultuous show about textile art proves, even a quilt can tell a story of outrage, exploitation and horror
  • Feliciano Centurión, Eye with ñanduti c.1994, from La Mirada [the Gazing Eye series] Courtesy Cecilia Brunson Projects and Familia Feliciano Centurión

    Unravel review – a gorgeously excessive tangled knot of a show, full of blood, pain and pleasure

    From a black jacket that looks like a bat hanging in a cave to a garment stained with the blood of an assassinated Panamanian, this celebration of textile art is ravishing and riveting

    • Life’s rich tapestry: the unsung wonders of textile art

    • ‘The art world were, “Don’t show me that, I’ll vomit”’: Jacqueline Poncelet on her controversial carpets

    • Anna Perach: Holes review – wild, liberating sculpture made of tufted wool

January 2024

  • for Linda Parry obituary The Forest tapestry, wool, silk and cotton, designed by William Morris, Philip Webb and John Henry Dearle, woven by William Knight, John Martin and William Sleath, 1887. Purchased with Art Fund support.

    Linda Parry obituary

    Museum curator and expert on the textiles of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement
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