Worn Worlds: A Textile Exhibition

About

Worn Worlds in an interactive digital exploration of global textile traditions and material culture. This collection showcases the Smithsonian Institution's textiles from various origins, highlighting their craftsmanship and establishing their agency as artifacts through history.

Users can understand these textiles by:

Place of Origin
Color
Process & Material

This project hopes to exalt these textiles from the annals of history and preserve them as a shared language of labor and artistry worldwide.

Learn more about SI's critical conservation work here.