Kente cloth and the vibrant prints based on its patterns are everywhere: in black churches as narrow columns of colorful fabric cascading over the shoulders of chorus members; on crowded urban streets ...
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 -- and ...
At the core of every piece of clothing you own is fabric. It probably came in an enormous sheet, spun off a loom that churns out thousands of other sheets just like it. Then, it probably got folded up ...