Over the past half century, the art of textiles, as a type of human activity and an artistic genre, has received a significant impetus to development. Textile artists challenged the well-established ideas about the specifics and role of textiles. Today, they use modern materials and digital technologies, they create textile installations and performance, using immersive techniques in the works. The changing role of textiles is due to a number of serious reasons. The emergence and actualization of new trends in contemporary art has expanded the range of means of expressiveness and turned the idea into an important motivation for a creative experiment. The interaction of textiles with the genres of art in the modern space shows the wide possibilities of the material. Today, artists and designers use traditional techniques. Appeals to the art of lace and embroidery are becoming especially popular. There are several new directions in design, for example: “Yarnbombing”, “Cross Stitch-style” and “New Lace Street Art”. Numerous examples from the field of conceptual and street art, interior design and furniture, and fine art demonstrate the growing role of textiles in the modern world and make it possible to comprehend the causes of this phenomenon.