Hotel Hércules repositions a block of defunct industrial employee housing into a luxurious, 40-room guesthouse for the burgeoning Compañía Cervecera Hércules. Centered around an olive grove courtyard, ...

Maharam is a fourth-generation family-run business that was once known for making children costume patterns. It has been reinvented by each successive generation, which probably accounts for its ...

Modern factories grew out of the Industrial Revolution in England. Matthew Boulton’s Soho Manufactory, opened in 1766 in Birmingham, is considered to have been the first one in the modern age (it ...

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. Advertisement Article continues ...

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 sewing ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 ...

As weaving skills are evaporating in Finland, so is the ability to design rag rugs.

Sheboygan Knitting Company merged with Cooper Manufacturing Company in 1916 and opened a new plant in Sheboygan in 1917. The new plant, touted as one of the most modern in the state, was built of ...