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Schiffer Craft, an imprint that publishes craft books and kits, offered review copies of three recent textile-focused books to Textile Society of America members. TSA is pleased to publish their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Dawn Williams Boyd, a visual artist who changed her primary medium from acrylic paints on various mediums to fabric in 2001. She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, MO ...

By Beatrijs Sterk, former publisher of Textile Forum Magazine and founder and secretary general of the European Textile Network (ETN) until May 2015. She currently writes for the Textile Forum Blog, ...

TEXTILE CLOSE UP: INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET – SANTA FE, JULY, 9 – 12, 2015 The Santa Fe Textile Close Up began on Thursday evening with an interactive session, involving ...

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 ...

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 ...

”Textiles in China: Identity, Literacy & Communication” by Mei Rado, SNPA Recipient Chinese textiles and dress constitute a relatively understudied field in art history, textile history, and fashion studies. While ...

Material Magic A Review of Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes by Whitney Artell, SNPA recipient Pop tops, old teddy bears, paint by numbers, and bottle caps are ...

A Colorful Journey by Ngoc Anh Luu Dam, SNPA Recipient  Natural dye was featured at the workshop titled “Early Dyebooks and the Investigation of the Science of Color” held ...

 Hosted by the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles by Eulanda Sanders The 2014 TSA Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, concluded on September 13th ...

Interlocking Regions A Session Review by Sarah Baitzel, SNPA recipient The role of archaeological textiles in understanding regional interaction in the pre-Columbian Andes was the subject of a Friday morning, ...

Kay Sekimachi Retrospective & Asian Textiles at the Mingei Balboa Park, San Diego. Sunday September 14, 2014 by Barbara Shapiro Expert guides and special guests: Kay Sekimachi, Signe Mayfield, Sarah ...


by Roxane Shaughnessy, Chair of 2014 FPA Awards Committee The Founding Presidents Award was inaugurated in 2008 to recognize excellence in the field of textile studies and to ensure that ...

A Review of TSA's program Textiles Close Up: Historic and Contemporary African Textiles that took place at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the home of Joanne Eicher in Minneapolis, ...

We all had a wonderful day at the newly renovated Cleveland Museum of Art April 25th for the Textiles Up Close Islamic Textiles seminar. There were fourteen participants from as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...