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Gur Inbar, A Thread of Clay, 2024, sheep wool yarn; dyeing, freehand tufting, 165×140 cm (photo: David Seth).

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Gur Inbar, A Thread of Clay, 2024, sheep wool yarn; dyeing, freehand tufting, 165×140 cm (photo: David Seth).

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Building a foundation of anti-racism and a culture of care, the mission of the Textile Society of America is to foster an international collective community—diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible—for the exchange and dissemination of knowledges and experiences about textiles worldwide.

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The Textile Society of America, an international organization, recognizes the profound global reach of textiles. We are committed to developing leadership initiatives, membership, and programming rooted in the plurality of textile histories, producers, and purposes. With an eye toward expanding our voices and audience, we will focus on inclusion of underrepresented groups, and advocacy for robust diversity of our personal and professional viewpoints.

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Textiles Close Up: Virtual Roundtable

Textiles Close Up: Virtual Roundtable

The Dressed Body & Wearable Innovations This September, the Textile Society of America invites you to join a live virtual roundtable that brings together curators, scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners from across Central New York for an engaging exploration of textiles, collections, and contemporary research. Taking place on September 23, 2026 this 90-minute online program expands upon the themes explored ...
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TSA Announces 2026 Research Travel Grant Recipients

TSA Announces 2026 Research Travel Grant Recipients

The Textile Society of America is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Research Travel Grant: Sonthia Coleman and Maggy Fragoso. These accomplished researchers are undertaking significant projects that document, preserve, and share textile knowledge rooted in cultural heritage, community practice, and historical inquiry. Drawing on her own multicultural heritage, Sonthia Coleman will conduct research in museum collections, including ...
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TSA Awarded Decorative Arts Trust Publishing Grant for 2022–2026 Colloquia Proceedings

TSA Awarded Decorative Arts Trust Publishing Grant for 2022–2026 Colloquia Proceedings

The Textile Society of America (TSA) is pleased to announce that it has received a $10,000 Publishing Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust in support of its forthcoming publication, Material Memory, Futures, and Renewal: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Colloquia, 2022–2026. This award supports the development of a peer-reviewed, open-access digital publication documenting TSA’s multi-year colloquium series, which ...
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Call for Entry, 2026 Annual Juried Exhibition, Fiber Artists of San Antonio

Call for Entry, 2026 Annual Juried Exhibition, Fiber Artists of San Antonio

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Flax & Linen Symposium 2026

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August 20, 2026
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National Museum of the American Coverlet, Bedford, Pennsylvania
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We are thrilled to announce Sonthia Coleman and Ma We are thrilled to announce Sonthia Coleman and Maggy Fragoso as the recipients of the 2026 TSA Textile Research Travel Grant! 🎉

Drawing on her Afro Creole, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Los Isleños heritage, this Sonthia is exploring the vibrant textile legacies of Louisiana and Texas. Engaging with collections at the Louisiana State Museum and the Houston Museum of African American Culture, and conducting deep-dive interviews with local artisans, she is mapping the intricate cultural exchanges between Indigenous, African American, and Spanish-Canarian communities.

Maggy’s research takes her to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, where she will collaborate with Manjak, Papel, and Tukulor master weavers. By investigating the shared influences and technical histories behind the Cabo Verdean hybrid loom, she is working to preserve the invaluable knowledge of elder craftspeople that might otherwise be lost.

Congratulations, Sonthia and Maggy! ✨ Read more about the recipients and their research visit TSANews linked in bio

Slide 2: Top left: A  conceptual rendering developed during creative research into spatial design and cross-cultural textile synthesis. This visual exploration honors the future of design by physically and digitally blending New Orleans' unique Afro Creole, Indigenous, and Spanish-Canarian material cultures. Credit: Conceptualized and prompted by Sonthia Coleman / MVN Tech Group. Bottom left: Sonthia Coleman smiling with her amazing students from the Fashion Tech Club in New Orleans. Credit: Courtesy of MVN Tech Group. Right: Grant recipient Sonthia smiling. Credit: Courtesy of MVN Tech Group

Slide 3: Top left: Maggy Fragoso's woven sample made to understand the underlying symmetries in the historical Cabo Verdean textiles and the book A panaria cabo-verdiana-guineense by António Carreira, where it all began. Photo credit: Maggy Fragoso Bottom Left: Grant recipient Maggy with the biggest smile, after spending three days with master weavers Jorge Gomes and José Tavares. Right: A narrow-strip loom, Jorge Gomes’ narrow-strip loom and a group of supplementary heddles that are used to pull the warp ends and create a pattern. Photo credit: Maggy Fragoso.
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