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Extreme Textiles
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Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

On view April 8–October 30, 2005

Extreme Textiles was the first major museum exhibition to explore the extraordinary innovations occurring in technical textiles. Featuring over 150 fully realized products or projects, the exhibition showed how these incredible new materials are revolutionizing the fields of architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, and the environment.

Target
Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance was made possible by Target

Maharam
Generous support was provided by Maharam

Additional funding was provided by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Stephen McKay, Inc., Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, and Foster-Miller, Inc.

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