Today, however, we see embroidery on more than bespoke runway creations. You’ll find slogan tees stitched with cursive and ...

Easily pair your traditional south indian sarees with decent yet stylish blouse designs that enhance your ethnic look for ...

"That's what embroidery is good for — surface decoration," she said. "That's how it was intended over the years." Palmer, 39, uses her needles and thread to stitch these surface decorations with ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. English embroidery has a long history as a storytelling medium. During the medieval period, needlework was used ...

Lesage, a French specialty house now owned by Chanel, has been using sequins, beads and metallic threads to create explosions of color for decades. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Paris ...

Along with tea and porcelain, silk was one of the main luxury exports from fabled Cathay to the West. Extensive trading links between Europe and China have existed since Roman times, along the ...

Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.