textiles

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Diane Briones Williams’s textiles at Official Welcome inject international flair into Western art history by rendering traditional scenes—landscapes, still lifes and genre painings—in needlepoint, then adding elements that touch on the artist’s Filipino heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Increasing oil prices have driven up the cost of items made with petrochemicals, everything from textiles to plastics.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

These circles, Gray explained, are cropped photos of textiles from Mexico, Guatemala and Japan that he found at fabric shops around Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

The sectors most vulnerable are computers and electrical equipment, chemicals, machinery and equipment, and textiles and apparel, he says.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Their report was only off by a hair; the Kongo people made remarkable textiles by beating the fibrous bark of certain trees, or weaving thread from the raffia palm.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver