Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Darryn King writes about arts and culture of all kinds. I fell in love with Proper Cloth at first sight. First sight of a corduroy ...

Jane Dunnewold is a woman of the cloth — art cloth, that is. When this San Antonio resident creates art, she combines her complex personality with the age-old techniques of printing and dyeing fabric.

For too long, we have treated kente as ceremonial fabric instead of what it truly is, a sophisticated design language. A visual system. A coded textile architecture developed over centuries by master ...