At Stitch Buffalo, textile arts weave stories of resilience, creativity, and connection. How can creativity shape civic life? Stitch Buffalo empowers refugee women through textile arts—creating income ...

Coming soon, a new mural will be installed at Stitch Buffalo’s new headquarters at 284 Plymouth Avenue. The collaborative mural project is thanks to a partnership between the AKG Public Art Initiative ...

Refugees from Nepal present vibrant door hangings that will be part of Stitch Buffalo's exhibit at the Buffalo History Museum. Saraswati Tiwari, left, stands behind her daughter Sachika Tiwari, 5, and ...

Perched at the top of an elegant avenue in the Georgian spa town of Bath, the Holburne Museum is the epitome of genteel English good taste. But its Neo-Classical harmony is currently disrupted by ...

Beyond its aesthetic appeal, kantha holds cultural significance in South Asian communities. It is often gifted during weddings or festivals as a symbol of prosperity and protection. The patterns ...

Fabrics and textiles remind Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri of home. When she was a child, Amiri would visit her uncle’s Kabul tailor shop before school. And when her family fled Taliban-ruled ...

But While Unravel wants us to see a continuity in textiles as a history of political resistance – of people defined by the fashionable but oddly opaque term “the global majority” – most of the work ...

Textiles have long been markers of civilisations. Every stitch, motif, even wear and tear, tells stories of the people who made, and wore, them. For long, though, it has been viewed solely as a ...