What are you wearing? What does it say about you? You might ask yourself these questions after taking in "Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin American," an exhibit now up at the ...

Golden brocades and voluptuous fabrics are a characteristic visual feature of Spanish American art. "Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America" addresses the social roles of textiles ...

Outside a grand colonial cathedral in el Zócalo, the historic center of Mexico City, you can find men in feathered headdresses and beaded garments performing pre-Hispanic spiritual cleanses on ...

Things that are old are new again. Case in point Painted floor cloths or rugs, ones like great-grandma might have made, are surfacing again. Got a piece of canvas or linoleum, some paint and some time ...

It used to be that floorcloths were for the fashionable set, used over marble floors in all the best European entries. The finest came from Bristol and Dundee where sail cloth was hand-painted in ...

It used to be that floorcloths were for the fashionable set, used over marble floors in all the best European entries. The finest came from Bristol and Dundee where sail cloth was hand-painted in ...

Learn how you can recycle old fabric to make a DIY canvas floor cloth. Make your own painted canvas floor rugs! Hand-painted floor cloths are a great alternative to area rugs. Not only are they ...

In home fashion, they say what goes around comes around. This may be the reason why floor cloths have come back into style. These fabric floor coverings represent the true pioneer spirit — practical ...