Being in Paris this early spring brought me a wondrous, gilded experience at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. The ...

(Greg Cook) Around 1961, Lenore Tawney ordered a bunch of black and white linen thread to develop a new form ... “Banisteriopsis,” a pile of bound gold linen that forms its own low, soft ...

Then we see how, once man discovered gold, he did everything in his power to work it into dress, by making it finer, hammering it, winding it around a thread of silk or linen, using gold leaf ...