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Calls for Papers
Textiles Trails: Legacies of the Silk Roads in Southeast Asia Symposium- Call for Papers
Deadline: Wednesday May 01, 2024
Textiles Trails: Legacies of the Silk Roads in Southeast Asia Symposium / Call for Papers. November 3 – 6, 2024. Hosted by the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, also known as Laos. This country is home to 50 government-recognized ethnic groups, each with unique weaving […]
Call for Proposals – Necessary, Useful, or Desirable: Histories of Furnishing Fabrics
Deadline: Saturday June 01, 2024
Histories of furnishing fabrics—their production, categorization, and use—are often folded into other topics (history of upholstery, history of interior decorating, history of printed textiles, etc) but are not often studied in their own right. As a result of the ongoing exploration of a significant corpus of furnishing fabrics in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, […]