Despite the decline of manufacturing jobs, the owners of a Schenectady-based company hope new technology will bring the art of designing and producing textiles back.

Pekalongan, Indonesia—When modern textile factories opened in this small city on the Java Sea in the 1990s, life was transformed overnight. Rice farmers and buffalo herders earned enough money ...

More than 200,000 textile manufacturing jobs have been lost to automation in the last decade. Textiles, mostly cotton, once dominated the economy of the South.

The huge brick factory, which stopped operating in 1957, manufactured cotton warp for nearly 100 years, and now Flett has re-started the tradition of textile work in the building. Price said Flett's ...

The role of textiles in the history of modern interiors and design, often unrecognized, gets the spotlight at an exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History and Material ...