Selections from The Textile Museum Collection
Ongoing
Visit the lower-level galleries to explore a rotating selection of global textile art from the museum collections.
About the Display
In 1925, George Hewitt Myers (1875-1957) founded The Textile Museum with a collection of 275 rugs and 60 related textiles. Over the last hundred years, The Textile Museum Collection has continued to expand thanks to the generosity of donors. This display features a global selection of recent acquisitions to the collection, from an expertly embroidered Turkmen woman’s coat, to an early 19th-century Chinese carpet depicting lions and peonies, to a unique knit kimono by contemporary artist Nicki Hitz Edson.
About the Collection
The Textile Museum Collection includes more than 21,000 examples of handmade textile art representing five continents and five millennia. You can explore thousands of works on our growing collections website.