The move by the 88-year-old Textile Museum from its historic DuPont Circle home to the campus of George Washington University has been heralded as visionary. The $33 million project is also dauntingly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington's 87-year-old Textile Museum is moving closer to having a new home. The Washington Post reports a groundbreaking is scheduled for next week for the new George Washington ...

A Chinese sutra cover made from rank badge, dating back to the 16th or 17th China. Courtesy the Textile Museum. Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter. District Line Daily covers local ...

WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t vacuum a priceless antique rug with a Hoover, and the Textile Museum will use one of its largest gifts ever to buy specialized care and preservation equipment for its collection ...

The Textile Museum’s vibrant collection—including centuries-old carpets, antique kimonos and sarongs, Egyptian mummy wraps, and even a black feather dress designed in the 1960s by Givenchy for ...

For 100 years, a D.C. museum has offered views of some of the rarest and most beautiful handmade kimonos, intricate Persian rugs and vivid robes of Taoist priests. The Textile Museum at George ...

A textile museum is a museum with exhibits relating to the history and art of textiles, including: Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Textile Museum has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; ...

The two historic homes in Kalorama that housed the Textile Museum for 90 years have been sold for $19 million to a private individual, the museum and the George Washington University Museum announced ...