Learning how to embroider is easy, and best of all, it’s possible to make a huge variety of artwork with even the simplest stitches. In fact, creating a design to embroider can be more difficult than ...

Were Hungarian embroiderers of centuries past encoding secret musical messages into their decorative textiles? Nope! But Zsanett Szirmay is decoding them anyway. The designer's latest project, ...

Mechanically active embroidery makes stretchable fabrics into a metamaterial that allows for unique stretchability patterns for each stitchout. "Embroidery is usually decorative—we normally don't want ...

The word ‘Phulkari’ literally translates to ‘floral work’. Traditionally executed on hand-spun cotton or khaddar, Phulkari ...