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Detail from a purple and white embroidered textile depicting many scenes along a trade route, such as sailing ships, laborers and scenes of leisure.

The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea

September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026

A sheer, delicate, short-sleeved, cropped, lace blouse with wide, flared sleeves and intricate floral embroidery throughout.

From Pineapple to Pañuelo

Philippine Textiles

December 7, 2024 - August 24, 2025

Closeup of a black and cream striped woven robe wrapped around a mannequin with folded arms. Three thin purple and black stripes line the hem of the robe's deep collar.

Diné Textiles

Nizhónígo Hadadít’eh, They are Beautifully Dressed

September 2, 2023 - September 29, 2024

A dark abstract photograph of blue and black tones with light blue and translucent squares run through the center. The squares appear to be stitched to the background through holes in their centers.

Sensing Fashion

February 11 - July 30, 2023

Inherent Vice

Hidden Narratives

July 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023

Inherent Vice

January 29 - July 10, 2022

It Comes in Many Forms

Islamic Art from the Collection

October 23, 2020 - December 18, 2021

The Art and Design of Spider Silk

September 27, 2019 - April 19, 2020

Gorham Silver

Designing Brilliance 1850-1970

May 3 - December 1, 2019

Lost in the Museum

October 5, 2018 - August 25, 2019

Repair and Design Futures

October 5, 2018 - June 30, 2019

From the Loom of a Goddess

Reverberations of Guatemalan Mayan Weaving

February 23 - August 19, 2018

Designing Traditions Biennial V

Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection

August 11, 2017 - January 14, 2018

Luminous Lace

January 27 - July 30, 2017

Whirling Return of the Ancestors

Egúngún Masquerade Ensembles of the Yorùbá

July 15, 2016 - January 8, 2017

Ottoman Turkish Interior Textiles from the Aldrich Collection

January 22 - July 17, 2016

Swagged and Poufed

The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th-Century and Today

January 22 - July 3, 2016

Golden Glamour

The Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry Collection

March 13 - July 5, 2015

“Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass"

June 10, 2014 - March 8, 2015

Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy

February 3 - July 8, 2012

Distant Climes

18th-Century British Views of Italy

September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

From Paris to Providence

Fashion, Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop

January 12 - April 8, 2001

Contemporary Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection

July 7 - October 22, 1995

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983