TSA News

Hooked Rugs:  Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design (Ashgate, 2013) is an examination of hooked rugs in America during the interwar years with a focus on the relationship between ...

We are happy to announce that Maleyne Syracuse has join TSA's Board of Directors. Maleyne brings her years of professional finance experience and a commitment to the textiles field. Please ...

Fiber Visions is the first edition of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, inaugurated as a cyclical exhibition in September 2013 in the capital of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. This ...

Nominations for the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award are now open! Given annually to a publication judged to be the best book in the field of global cultural heritage textile ...

November 15’s Textiles Close Up program provided a great opportunity to hear from the team of curators responsible for the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Trade, 1500-1800. A ...

Nomination forms: Click to Nominate a Colleague Click to Nominate yourself TSA is soliciting nominations for the Board of Directors. Board positions open for the next Election cycle include the Vice President/President-Elect, ...

The thing about experiences abroad looking back is it’s difficult to believe that they actually happened. It’s incredible to think that the tiny boot-shaped spot on your globe marked Italy ...

This photo shows one area of Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio in Florence where 4 of us attended a 3-day workshop and got to weave on one of the velvet ...

New Directions A Juried Exhibition of the Textile Society of America September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles In conjunction with the Textile ...

The fifteen participants in TSA's Textiles Close Up #2, gathered for a close look at painted and printed textiles from India and Europe on the Museum of Fine Arts Boston ...

Earlier this summer I had the good fortune to take a group of students to Vietnam for a class titled “Food, Fashion, and Art through Tourism: Imagining the Nation of ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley, CA—Editors of Chinese Silks, Feng Zhao and Dieter Kuhn, have been awarded the R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2012. In 2000 the Textile Society ...

 By Mary Littrell Question:  What ensues when 180 artists from 60 countries join with 1,700 organizational volunteers and 22,000 shoppers? Answer:  The 10th International Folk Art Market of Santa Fe, ...

July 12, 2013 Last night I attended the opening in Chelsea of very intriguing show.  Curated by Terry Winters, a New York painter, the show is called Roving Signs.  It ...

Charlotte Cosby, our manager of the TSA National Office since 2007 is leaving TSA on June 30. Char has been an incredible asset to the organization over the last six ...

TSA is growing. Our diverse membership of artists, scholars, curators, teachers, conservators, dealers, collectors, and students continues to expand. At the same time, we are developing new systems and new ...

Well, Paris is nice, but New York also has a lot to offer in the textile world. Today at MOMA I was curious about the different textile-related art that might ...

"It is always women who weave in Southeast Asia.” Dr. Barnes explained that because women are associated with fertility, by extension so are their textiles. At weddings, the gift from ...

On May 4th From the Exotic to the Mystical Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection opened at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the ...

Having just returned from my first TSA study tour, it is an experience I highly recommend.  The tour brought together a lovely mix of participants with diverse backgrounds but a ...

Monday April 8, Today was the opening of the exhibition The Philippines: archipelago of exchange at the Quai Branly Museum.  An unexpected mix of 16th century wooden male and female ...

I am currently spending a month in Paris teaching a seminar, Coloring the Globe: textiles and dyes, trade and culture, at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes. This also gives me ...

In 1994, Irene Zambelli Silverman created the Coby Foundation, in memory of her mother, to support projects in the needle arts.  After Silverman’s tragic death in 1998, the Board of ...

THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A NEW PROGRAM: TEXTILES CLOSE UP Textiles Close Up  is an exciting new series of study-workshops that will provide  opportunities to ...

Where’s Borneo?  I heard that question many times before leaving for Kuching to attend the International Symposium and Exhibition on Natural Dyes & World Eco-Fiber and Textile Forum (ISEND-WEFT.) Borneo, ...

Enjoy this interesting post, Clothworkers': How to Move a National Collection from the Victoria & Albert Network about the Clothworkers Center for Textiles and Fashion Study and Conservation ...

Change can be earth shattering.  And in Kutch, the shattering earth brought about profound changes.  The 2001 earthquake devastated the area and thrust it into the global limelight.  The subsequent ...

I visited Hoorbai today.  It has been a long time since my last visit and much has changed:  we are both older, our children bigger, and she does only a ...

Upcoming, April 2013 – Artist/Designer Jill Kinnear will present her recent creative project, Architecture of the South, at SCAD, Savannah. http://www.jillkinnear.com While ornament is encoded with history it is also ...

You might be on my mailing list.  And if you received a TSA press release over the past six months, it would have been sent from Western India.  As the ...