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As an obsessive compulsive, I am not averse to miniscule detail. But the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s latest exhibition ramps detail up to the Nth degree. “Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the ...

A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

The checked fabric Madras was adopted by the affluent elite of 1950s America, and has been an "old-money" wardrobe staple ever since. But the fabric's origins go back to a South Indian fishing village ...