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![TSA Announces Winner of Annual R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chinese-silks.jpg?resize=453%2C350&ssl=1)
TSA Announces Winner of Annual R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award
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 ...
![Textile Artists Shine at the International Folk Art Market-Santa Fe](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Market-Screening-Committee.jpg?resize=432%2C324&ssl=1)
Textile Artists Shine at the International Folk Art Market-Santa Fe
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, ...
![President's Blog](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/EP5.jpg?resize=562%2C350&ssl=1)
President’s Blog
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 ...
![Best wishes to Char Cosby, Manager of the National Office since 2007](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/charlotte.jpg?resize=450%2C350&ssl=1)
Best wishes to Char Cosby, Manager of the National Office since 2007
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 Welcomes New Executive Director](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tali-headshot-announce.jpg?resize=450%2C350&ssl=1)
TSA Welcomes New Executive Director
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 ...
![Presidents Blog, June 12, 2013](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/elena-3.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
Presidents Blog, June 12, 2013
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 ...
![Textiles Close Up: Indonesia at the Yale University Art Gallery](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Blog-Post-2Image3.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
Textiles Close Up: Indonesia at the Yale University Art Gallery
"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 ...
![From the Exotic to the Mystical](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Image-2.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
From the Exotic to the Mystical
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 ...
![A TRIP THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRY](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/5.jpg?resize=360%2C350&ssl=1)
A TRIP THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRY
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 ...
![TSA President's Blog: April 8, 2013](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fig-5a-Field-Museum-warrior-garment-DETAIL.jpg?resize=595%2C350&ssl=1)
TSA President’s Blog: April 8, 2013
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 ...
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TSA President’s Blog: April 7, 2013
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 ...
![Coby Foundation : A brief history](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/7-ShirtsDandy-showRISD-Museum-Pl-55-ARD_H4_7_24_0217.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
Coby Foundation : A brief history
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 ...
![A New TSA Program: TEXTILES CLOSE UP](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Yale-textile-for-webblog.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
A New TSA Program: TEXTILES CLOSE UP
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?](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WheresBorneo1s.jpg?resize=288%2C350&ssl=1)
Where’s Borneo?
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, ...
![Clothworkers': How to Move a National Collection](/wp-content/themes/infinity-pro/images/image-not-found.png)
Clothworkers’: How to Move a National Collection
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 ...
![Can We Talk? Textiles, Change and NGOs in Kutch](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Hardy-1.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
Can We Talk? Textiles, Change and NGOs in Kutch
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 ...
![On Not Stitching: Early Thoughts](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Hardyblog2images.jpg?resize=432%2C350&ssl=1)
On Not Stitching: Early Thoughts
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 ...
![Narrating the Lowcountry – Charleston to Savannah (pt.2)](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/savannah-blog2.jpg?resize=363%2C350&ssl=1)
Narrating the Lowcountry – Charleston to Savannah (pt.2)
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 ...
![New Connections in Kutch](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/New-ConnectionKutc-Im.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
New Connections in Kutch
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 ...
![TSA has a new Treasurer!](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Nina-Olson.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
TSA has a new Treasurer!
Nina Olson is the National Taxpayer Advocate and serves as an advocate for taxpayers to the IRS and Congress. She served on the Textile Museum's Advisory Council, and then was ...
![Remembering the Velvet Workshop at the TSA Symposium 2012](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/velvet-workshop2a.jpg?resize=280%2C210&ssl=1)
Remembering the Velvet Workshop at the TSA Symposium 2012
A Day in Figured Velvet: Technique, Pattern, Loom was a highly informative workshop held at the TSA Conference held this summer in Washington, DC. The workshop was led by Julie ...
![Fortuny y Madrazo Exhibition](/wp-content/themes/infinity-pro/images/image-not-found.png)
Fortuny y Madrazo Exhibition
If you need a break from the busy pace of the pre-holiday season, an oasis of sumptuous beauty can be found at the exhibition Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy, ...
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The Mention of Textiles…
The mention of textiles can evoke different feelings and images depending on the audience. A fabric can hide inner beauty when created by an artisan or can be considered functional ...
![When Design Burst From Cloth](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Seth-Tillett-.jpg?resize=600%2C350&ssl=1)
When Design Burst From Cloth
Last summer, TSA organized a New York Textile Study Day, the highlight of which was a visit to the studio of Seth Tillett and Nicole Rauscher. Tillett and Rauscher have ...
![2012 Founding Presidents Award Winners Announced](https://i0.wp.com/textilesocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2012-Founding-Presidents-Award-600x3261.jpg?resize=280%2C210&ssl=1)
2012 Founding Presidents Award Winners Announced
The TSA Founding Presidents Award for the best paper presented at the 2012 Symposium, Textiles & Politics, was jointly awarded to Miriam Ali-de Unzaga and Kirsty Robertson. FPA was established ...
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ALFONSA HORENG
ALFONSA HORENG of Indonesia recalls, “I remembered what my father always said: ‘Never leave the land your great grandfathers inherited to you, and develop it for a good cause.’ That ...
![Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta](/wp-content/themes/infinity-pro/images/image-not-found.png)
Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta
For the past fourteen years TSA members David and Sue Richardson have been visiting the Central Asian outpost of Qaraqalpaqstan, researching the history and culture of the Qaraqalpaqs who mainly ...