Textiles were everywhere at Frieze Los Angeles —spilling across walls, stitched into sculpture, and, in one case, reimagined as a vintage carpet bazaar tucked inside a standard-issue gallery booth at the Santa Monica Airport, the fair’s cavernous venue. Gossamer silks, craggy seams, and densely worked fibers signaled a clear shift: The medium is no longer operating at the margins. For decades, textiles were sidelined in the art world, relegated to the realm of craft. Take Louise Bourgeois , who grew up in her parents’ tapestry restoration studio outside of Paris, yet kept textiles at arm’s length. Though she would later channel their logic into her towering sculptures of spiders (nature’s most spellbinding weavers), she dismissed the medium itself as “more engaging and less demanding” than painting or sculpture, reasoning that textiles “rarely liberate themselves from decoration.” Artist Yvonne Wells’s quilts on display at Frieze LA. © Yvonne Wells. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort, New York.…