2020 Fall News

Dear TSA Members, This is my last letter as President of TSA, and it has been an honor to serve in this position over the past 2 years. I am ...

By: Ayaka Sano, Student/New Professional Award Recipient Under the mission to foster greater exchange and dissemination of textile knowledge worldwide, the Textile Society of America’s 2020 symposium, organized virtually for ...

For this special TSA News Conversation, member Precious Lovell spoke with Dr. Jonathan M. Square. A historian, Dr. Square’s work redefines the American textile narrative and explores the importance of ...

Part 2: Expanding the American Textiles Conversation with Karen Hampton Continuing our interview with Karen Hampton from last week, this week we learn about Karen’s current projects. Part 1 for ...

Karen Hampton is a textile artist whose moving work captures the stories and energy of the narratives she has discovered from extensive fieldwork throughout the American South and the African ...

The Andean region is famous for its impressive textiles woven by skilled weavers. Albeit altered by Colonial policies, colonial Andean textiles maintained Andean standards while combining new colonial elements. At ...

Written by Caroline Kipp The Textile Society of America with the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum are delighted to present their new program Contemporary Voices. Focused on ...

TSA member Roy W. Hamilton has co-authored the following review with Dr. Ruth Barnes, Geneviève Duggan, Traude Gavin, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Sandra Niessen, and Tim G. Babcock in response to Peter ...

Tribal carpets and textiles have been enthusiastically collected by connoisseurs and ordinary people in Europe and the U.S. for years. In contrast, tribal carpets and textiles did not gain the ...

For this year’s Textile Society of America symposium, I researched one special item often overlooked in the American Museum of Natural History's vast collection—the nineteenth-century at káté daakéit or Tlingit ...

Bisa Butler: Portraits, an exhibition featuring twenty-two of the artist’s arresting portrait quilts, opened at the Art Institute of Chicago on November 16, 2020. Although the Art Institute had to ...

By Judy Frater Indian artisans are reeling from COVID-19 and its economic repercussions, and people are concerned that they face an existential crisis. Once again, we face the fundamental question: ...

As a researcher and a conservator, I feel it is my responsibility to understand and preserve not only the tangible aspects of an object, but also the intangible: how it ...

By: Amy Putansu A Decade in Fiber is an exhibition with surprising technical breadth, especially considering the work is all made by recent alumni of a two-year college textiles program ...

Reviewed by Kristin Scheel Lunde This boxed set containing Every Thread A Story and The Secret Language of Miao Embroidery charts the artistry of seventeen villages located in the southwestern ...

Ikat: The Essential Handbook to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth Reviewed by Wendy Weiss “Ikat is not a technique for the faint of heart,” says the author, Mary Zicafoose. Writing a how-to ...

When my students at Appalachian State University left for spring break in March 2020, their first major projects were almost finished on the looms. They had just started learning the ...

Caroline Hayes Charuk As the Textile Society of America works to make our membership and our field more representative and inclusive of people with marginalized identities, it is clear that ...

By Amy DiPlacido Since the temporary closure of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in March 2020, many people have asked me, “Now that the museum is closed, what ...

Kira Dominguez Hultgren at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles by Shilpa Shah Arose, 2020. 132 x 132 x 26 in. Virgin and less pure wool in homespun marigold ...

By Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas Reviewed by Deborah Corsini How to Weave a Navajo RugAnd Other Lessons from Spider Woman Navajo weaving is a precise, complicated and ...