Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.

costume exhibition at the Brady Gallery at GW

came to Gaziantep, Türkiye 🇹🇷 to see and buy handwoven kutnu. it did not disappoint. i purchased some solid color meters and a little ikat to bring back to the US

if you are in DC this summer/winter, please consider stopping by The Textile Museum on GW’s campus to see my exhibition “Source Material: Lessons in Responsible Fashion”

some big news out of the GW Museum & The Textile Museum: my exhibition opens May 15 with a couple great program offerings in the first week. if you’re in DC, come through!

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Amongst his textile innovations, a technique that Mariano Fortuny created in the early c20th was a series of metal matrices to speed up production of his printed fabrics whilst retaining the artisanship. Here a printed silk alongside one of the matrices #palazzofortuny #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Some one shouldered glamour in tight pleated silk jersey. It can only be Madame Grès, bringing her familiar technique to a black evening dress with a slash of scarlet. Late #1940s, sold via Kerry Taylor Auctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Miao Hmong embroidery designs, deriving from the Miao Hmong people of the mountainous regions of China #WomensArt

I thought it was .004 and the fact that i even feel the need to make such a distinction makes me sick. these are books!!! and art!!! for people!!! what the fuck are we doing

Confirmed DOGE is currently inside IMLS headquarters.

TM staff trip to a trustee’s house

amazing workshop at the Postal Museum!

exhibition dressing has turned violent

the museum got a facelift for the centennial!

First sightings of Tenerife lace since we got to the island!

spent the first day of the new year in the High Atlas Mountains learning traditional wool & rug production skills from Amazigh women

a sneak peek at Morrocan textiles. full workshop pics to come!

Saying goodbye to our beautiful ikat exhibition and gearing up for the museum’s centennial anniversary. If you are in DC during 2025 please be sure to stop at the museum to see the best of our collection (including my exhibition)!

Some fab #TurkeyRed peacocks for #TextileTuesday spotted by @sallytuckett.bsky.social 👇🏻

Prints available All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Hi new followers! My name is Katrina & I work at a textile museum that severely underpays its workers. If you love the pics I post, and would be willing to spare 5 minutes so my colleagues and I can still afford to work there, please shoot me a DM!

textile folks, is there a word for this type of 3 dimensional contemporary beading?

preparing for our honeymoon!!!

please say happy birthday to Kala, my beautiful 3 year old daughter!

everyone loves a free museum until you learn that’s the pot of money that staff are paid out of

wore probably the most expensive garment that i ever will this weekend, during our ikat show and tell

incredibly proud of my first flax fiber! thanks to the Chesapeake Fibershed for a great day

“vintage bird print” 😭😭😭

an ex(terior)hibition at the Science History Institute in Philly. What a great use of architectural space AND it has an accompanying “tour” video. learn about ramie here: www.sciencehistory.org/visit/exhibi...

I’m not joking when I say this should be illegal

some shots from our Celebration of Textiles 2025 featuring an ikat dragon 🐉

playing around with our new Dino-Lite. what a dream

Some favorites from Sleeping Beauties: an odd exhibition that seemed to have two concurrent but semi-unrelated curatorial ambitions

frames and graphics designed by my students to hang in The Loop, GW’s free clothing swap! buy less and swap more this prime day!

Textile history is American history 📍 Smithsonian National Museum of American History

learn about textiles while you poop! beautiful, educational updates to our museums bathrooms!

live from Smithsonian Folklife Festival

about making textiles in GW’s day 📍Mount Vernon

classic #textilemuseumproblems stuck in my local thrift trying to explain the human magic that is ikat to uninterested shoppers 😭😭😭

for three years, my students have been fighting for a space on campus to see their circular fashion dreams come to life this month, I am happy to say they’ve done it. please enjoy GW’s “The Loop,” a PERMANENT free clothing swap!

beautiful if rainy day on the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks

“Claire / McCardell” and behind the scenes at the Maryland Center for History and Culture

blessed by a visitor on our windowsill this morning. she didn’t mind my company one bit as she tore her breakfast to shreds 🐀

Simone Leigh, Mark Bradford, and Jessica Diamond (and me!) at the Hirshhorn

spent this week with our collection and cannot stop thinking about the beauty of our piña blouses

The Walters Art Museum

BMA

The Sky’s the Limit at The National Museum of Women in the Arts