Study Tour
Velvets of Italy Tour 2013
The thing about experiences abroad looking back is it’s difficult to believe that they actually happened. It’s incredible to think that the tiny boot-shaped spot on your globe marked Italy ...
A Member’s Report from TSA’s Velvets in Italy Study Tour
This photo shows one area of Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio in Florence where 4 of us attended a 3-day workshop and got to weave on one of the velvet ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Narrating the Lowcountry – Charleston to Savannah
In preparation for the upcoming TSA study tour, Textiles of the Lowcountry: Charleston and Savannah, Collecting, Preserving, and Narrating, I recently attended Sharon Cooper-Murray’s Gullah Rag Quilting Workshop at the ...
TSA STUDY TOUR TO HIGHLANDS OAXACA, MEXICO
Being a textile lover, I found there actually is a heaven on Earth for people like me. Surrounded by a gorgeous mountainous landscape, the city of Oaxaca sets itself as ...
