Proceedings
Proceedings are published approximately six months after each symposium. Through a partnership with the University of Lincoln, Nebraska, they are available through on-line open access Digital Commons.

TSA Opportunities: Editor positions for Special Issue and Proceedings
Textile Society of America is seeking to fill two editorial positions. Editor, TSA special issue of Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice The editor is responsible for a special ...

2020 Virtual
View Online The theme Hidden Stories/Human Lives presented opportunities to reveal complex and hidden stories of global textile making and coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

Proceedings
Proceedings are published approximately six months after each symposium. Through a partnership with the University of Lincoln, Nebraska. They are available through on-line open access Digital Commons. Click here to ...

2018 Vancouver
View Online The theme of TSA’s 16th Biennial Symposium was The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global. Located on the Pacific Rim, Vancouver offers a pertinent setting to probe ...

2016 Savannah
View Online For Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port, we invited participants to explore the ways in which textiles shape, and are shaped by historical, geographical, technological and economic aspects ...

2014 Los Angeles
View Online New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future The theme of the Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, explores change and innovation in textiles in ...

2012 Washington, D.C.
View Online Textiles and Politics Throughout human history and across the globe, whether as intimate artifacts of interpersonal relations or state-level monumental works, textiles have been imbued with political importance ...

2010 Lincoln, Nebraska
View Online Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space, was held in Lincoln, Nebraska (Home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Textiles, Clothing & Design, the Robert ...

2008 Honolulu, Hawaii
View Online The Hawai‘i Organizing Committee for the11th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America and the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel extend Hawai‘i’s fabled aloha to scholars, artists, museum and ...

2006 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
View Online 2006 Textile narratives + ConversationsThe Textile Society of America's 10th Biennial Symposium took place in Toronto, October 11-14, 2006. The Textile Museum of Canada and Harbourfront Centre co-sponsored ...

2004 Oakland, California
View Online 2004 Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation The Textile Society of America’s 9th Biennial Symposium took place October 7–9, 2004, at the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel in Oakland, California. The ...

2002 Northampton, Massachusetts
View Online Silk Roads, Other Roads Eighth Biennial SymposiumSmith College Campus, Northampton, MassachusettsSeptember 26-28, 2002 Smith College and Northampton, Massachusetts, hosted the Textile Society of America Eighth Biennial Symposium, Silk ...

2000 Santa Fe, New Mexico
View Online Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints Seventh Biennial Symposium, September 19-24, 2000. La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America was ...

1998 New York, New York
View Online Creating Textiles: Makers, Methods, Markets 1998 Proceedings:Creating Textiles: Makers, Methods, Markets Sixth Biennial Symposium. September 24-26, 1998. Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York. This symposium was ...

1996 Chicago, Illinois
View Online Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles Fifth Biennial Symposium, September 19-21, 1996.The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ...

1994 Los Angeles, California
View Online Contact, Crossover, Continuity Fourth Biennial Symposium, September 22-24, 1994. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California ...

1992 Seattle, Washington
View Online 1992 Proceedings: Textiles in Daily Life Third Biennial Symposium, September 24-26, 1992. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington ...