Virtual Escapes: The Design Library

 [Screengrabs from The Design Library video]

 

Maybe you've previously read that The Design Library is home to a staggering textile archive (actually, the collection is reportedly the world's largest) but in this case seeing really is believing. Now available online is a virtual tour of the Library in the Hudson River Valley's Wappingers Falls. Take a peek inside this light, open place where seven million textile designs -- ranging from mid-18th to late- 20th-century creations and including a dizzying array of documentary fabrics, wallpapers, embroideries, yarn dyes, and original paintings -- are carefully organized and stored.