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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 ...

Preparation of a polychromic weft ikat at IKTT, Chot Sam village, Siem Reap, personal picture, 2016. In preparation for our upcoming symposium, we would like to introduce our members to ...

The Persian Carpet Tradition by P.R.J. Ford P. R. J. “Jim” Ford’s The Persian Carpet Tradition, from Hali Publications, is the winner of TSA’s R. L. Shep Award for the ...

By: Susan Brown and Kat Diuguid Since 2017, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, has hosted the Textile Society of America on its Object of the Day blog to celebrate New ...

Continuity During Times of Coronavirus – Bringing Together the Choctaw Textile Community By: TSA Member Jennifer Byram Originating in Mississippi and Alabama, Choctaw communities have been dispersed due to colonial ...

On July 2nd, TSA hosted its first of many Affinity Group Conversations focused on the craft economy. I worked alongside Mimi Robinson, a textile designer and author, to launch this ...

Given annually to a publication judged to be the best book in the field of ethnic textile studies, the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award consists of a cash prize ...

The Textile Society of America’s Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art (BEA) honors the lives and work of the late and beloved fiber artists Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian ...

Since our first post on virtual events and exhibitions in May, we have discovered many more resources to share with the TSA Community. As quarantine continued and everyone adjusted to ...

Amy DiPlacido is currently the Head Curator at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, where she has collaborated on shows involving historic and contemporary fashion and textiles. Amy oversees ...

Please note: This interview was originally planned as a celebration of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the ending of enslavement in the United States of America and had been scheduled with ...

By Laura L. Camerlengo, Associate Curator of Costume and Textile Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), Contemporary Muslim Fashions ...

Dear TSA Members, As this letter was in its final draft and going to press, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the senseless death of so many other ...

To our members, our siblings of color, our friends, families and communities affected by racism and systemic injustice across the United States and around the world, How are you doing? ...

"Installation View of Anni Albers at Tate Modern", 2018. Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 Crisis, exhibitions and related events have been canceled ...

Scientists and artists both thrive on uncertainty and a sense of adventure.These two ideas inspire my studio practice. I make textile art about science and because of this, my work ...

Reviewed by Diane Newbury John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin August 18, 2019 — January 19, 2020 Visit exhibition page here In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio ...

As we all navigate the many challenges resulting from the developing COVID-19 crisis, we need to make the following TSA announcements: - The April TCU in Toronto is canceled and ...

It is with excitement that we announce that the TSA Board has voted and agreed that the Textile Society of America Newsletter will shift from the twice yearly PDF format ...

December 7, 1931–October 31, 2019 By Mary Lane Archie Brennan. Photo credit: Alex Kistler Archie Brennan passed away on October 31, 2019. He was born in Roslin, Scotland on December ...

By Lisa L. Kriner, TSA President, 2018–2020 This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. Marion Coleman at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellowships ...

Reviewed by Pat Hickman and Gail Hovey New Brunswick Museum Saint John, Canada June 9–September 9, 2019 Visit exhibition page here Vita Plume, Woman Making Basket-Ulmann Project. Woven at Oriole ...

By Kathleen Curtis Wilson This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. Morocco is a land of beauty and poverty, heat and dust, a ...

This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch Author: Susan Brandeis Published ...

Janice Lessman-Moss learned that she had been awarded a prestigious United States Artist Fellowship at the closing plenary session of the September 2018 Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium ...

During a recent trip to Morocco, co-sponsored by TSA and Peters Valley School of Craft, I experienced a culture of beauty, vibrant color, and craftsmanship ...

Fiberart International is one of the longest running juried exhibitions of textile art in the world. A triennial event, this prestigious exhibition attracts an international group of artists ...

By Ann Peters, who is a member of the TSA Board. As an archaeologist, she analyzes textiles and other artifacts created from organic materials, working with museum collections and archives ...

Garrison Art Center in NY presents Streaming: Wind & Water, a site-specific installation of sculptural works by textile artist Pat Hickman. The exhibition will be on view in the Riverside ...

By Erica White, operations manager of Haiti Babi, in Cap Haitien, Haiti; all photos courtesy of Haiti Babi In December of 2010 I graduated from the University of Nebraska with ...