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Nominations for the 2014 R.L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award are in and what an exciting list of works it includes! The annual Shep Book Award, recognizes the best book ...

 “As we honor path-breaking leaders in the field, we also foreground the diverse ways that textiles are integral to human experience, emphasize the central roles that textiles play in life, ...

Dika Eckersley (1939-2015) contributed to the world of textiles as a catalog designer, friend and lover of excellent design in any form, especially finding pleasure in textiles and dress. She ...

Craft & Social Enterprise Close Up July 9- 13, 2015 International Folk Art Market & Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Registration Closes May 1st Expert guides: ...

Author: T'ai Smith University of Minnesota Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8166-8724-4 Published text validates the writers’ pursuits and imbues their work with clarity and purpose. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, author T’ai ...

Authors: Walter F. Morris, Jr., Carol Karasik, & Janet Schwartz Thrums Books distributed by Small Press United, 2015 ISBN: 978-0-9838860-6-8 Dramatic change in dress is underway among the Maya of ...

CSMVS Museum Mumbai, India. December 11, 2014- February 15, 2015 Accompanying cataloguer by Eva-Maria Rakob, Shilpa Shah and Tulsi Vatsal. Surat: Tapi Collection, 2014. For availability contact the Tapi Collection ...

The Georgia Museum of Art recently hosted two exhibitions featuring Italian textiles, historic and modern. Preserving these textiles for the future is an important concern. The historic exhibition, The Material ...

D.C.'s Newest Museum Prepares to Make Debut The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum Opens Sprint 2015 by the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum staff ...

Woven Luxuries: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Velvets from the Indictor Collection by Qamar Adamjee, Associate Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Asian Art Museum In November 1616, King James ...

compiled by Dominique Cardon, International Advisor to the Board of TSA Editor’s note: Dominique Cardon inaugurates a column featuring museums, research centers, and associations concerned with textiles outside of North ...

CALIFORNIA The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Mar. 13- Nov. 1, 2015 “Woven Luxuries: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Velvets from the Indictor Collection.” Silk velvets have been preeminent luxury ...

Elena Phipps. “Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts,” in Izumi Shimada ed. The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture ...

CALIFORNIA Slow Fiber Studios, Berkeley, CA. Jul. 26 – Aug. 16, 2015 Jiro Yonezawa will be leading a series of lectures, bamboo jewelry workshops, and basketry workshops hosted by Slow ...

Dominique Cardon has been awarded the Silver Shuttle by the NGO « Tours Cité de la Soie » (Tours, City of Silk) last February 19, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ...

Explore TSA’s Online Membership and Registration System with Membership Associate Lauren Hartman In 2013 TSA implemented an online system for membership, donations, and program registration. This system has strengthened our ...

CAA returns to New York in 2015 for its 103rd Annual Conference. The conference will be held at the Hilton New York from Wednesday, February 11 to Saturday, February 14 ...

For all the years that I have travelled annually to Santa Fe, in the past it was generally to see the Ethnographic textile shows that take place in August. These ...

Dear Members and Friends, As we move through the fall season, I recall the energy present at our recent Symposium and the strong sense of fellowship and community. This opportunity ...

 New York Material in Motion, 10th biennial North American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC), New York, NY. Nov. 16-20, 2015 The tenth biennial NATCC will be held in New York City ...

California Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Oct 11, 2014 “Storytelling Through Thread”: The Los Angeles-based artist Karen Hampton uses the art of embroidery, coupled with found textiles, to ...

Wendy Weiss has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grant to continue her research in Gujarat, India during the 2014-2015 academic year. Her project title is “Documentation and Design Development ...

Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia featuring a contribution by TSA Board Member Laura Camerlengo. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic ...

California Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley, CA Jacqueline Davidson has donated her collection of knotted-netting and related items, including netted textiles, netting, needlework tools, and books about lace ...

Thrums LLC, formerly Interweave Press LLC of Loveland, has donated the editorial archives of Fiberarts magazine to the Morgan Library Archives & Special Collections at Colorado State University in Fort ...

Review of TSA’s Juried Exhibition New Directions: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles By Hadley W. Jensen,SNPA recipient New Directions at CAFAM is not only visually stunning, but also indicative ...

Alejandra Gomex Colorado was the TSA scholarship recipient for this program. She is a Social Anthropologist specializing in Islamic Art and Culture. She is professor and curator for the Middle East collections at Museo ...

Stromata: The Carpet as Artifact, Concept & Metaphor in Literature, Science & the Arts  Florence, Italy, Nov 3-6, 2014 Conference Reviewed by Elena Phipps  An ambitious conference in the ...

Rojo Mexicano/Mexican Red: International Colloquium on Cochineal in Art Palacio de Bellas Artes and ENCRyM, Mexico City, Nov 11-14, 2014 Reviewed by Elena Phipps Organized by the Museo del Palacio ...

Andrea Donnelly Honored with 12th Brandford/Elliott Award at Textile Symposium The Textile Society of America convened for its 14th Biennial Symposium in Los Angeles, Sept. 10-14, 2014. At the closing ...