There was something truly exciting about seeing such an old art with such modern subjects from the minute I stepped into the Contemporary Tapestries Show at Stay ZaZa Art House and Social Gallery, ...
%22Contemporary International Tapestry%22 permeates the Hunterdon Art Museum%2C a 19th century stone mill. The exhibit features many of the foremost weavers from the world over%2C including New ...
Historically, tapestries were a practical necessity as well as a decorative accent, providing warmth and sound dampening to stone-walled homes as early as the 15th century. Because of their high cost, ...
A 12-foot-long, 21-inch-high tapestry woven in 1667 by a 23-year-old woman named Anna Bump is both a lens through which to look back on an intensely pious moment in northern Germany and a strangely ...
The Tapestry Studio was established in 1976–77 under the direction of painter and academic Zekai Ormancı (1949–2008).
Christina Forrer is standing in the doorway of the MATRIX modern-art exhibit space at Wadsworth Atheneum. She is half an hour away from speaking to a room full of people at the first in-person opening ...
The tapestry unfolds, piece by piece, until its dimensions are revealed. At nearly five metres high and wide, it could cover the side of a small house. The proportions are huge, but the intense detail ...
Ruth Jones's "Jardin de Pallas," in "Contemporary International Tapestry" at the Hunterdon Art Museum, includes ancient and modern techniques almost as if it were a "graduate course" in tapestry ...