Overview
Drawing exclusively from The Henry Ford's collections, Fabric of America: Our Fashions, Textiles, and Technologies explores the deep connections between textiles and our shared history. Through five enduring American values — liberty, practicality, inventiveness, abundance and individualism — this exhibition reveals how fabric shapes who we are as a people and a nation, presented as part of The Henry Ford's America: 250 Years in the Making commemoration.
Together, these stories present a retrospective of the ways clothing and textiles have conveyed identity, ambition and possibility across American history. From practical workwear to haute couture, understated household items to exuberant fashion statements, displayed artifacts highlight both the overlooked and the celebrated. Machinery, raw materials and the tools of textile production round out this narrative, revealing the full lifecycle of fabric and the many forces that shape it.
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