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All-over floral prints are losing their appeal in 2026. Too much pattern can overwhelm outfits here’s why fashion is shifting toward cleaner prints.

Jane Dunnewold is a woman of the cloth — art cloth, that is. When this San Antonio resident creates art, she combines her complex personality with the age-old techniques of printing and dyeing fabric.

In Mali, master artist Boubacar Doumbia is passing on the ancient textile techniques used to produce Mali's iconic bogolan mud cloth to the next generation, thereby training young fabric designers.