Learning from her mother how to use a sewing machine as a child, fiber artist Esther Rodgers got her start in textiles, she said, “making patchwork clothes and selling them at Phish concerts and on ...

I spoke with experts to break down popular textile terms like Oeko-Tex certified, and define the key differences between a fabric, a weave and a fiber.

TIGANESTI, Romania From the sanctity of a 19th-century convent, Romanian nuns weave vivid, Byzantine cloth for Orthodox priests. Now word of the sumptuous silk has reached fashion designers ...