Lectures

Please join us for A Talk on the McCoy Jones Collection at 1:00PM on Saturday, February 21, 2026, in Koret Auditorium, de Young museum, … [Read more...] about A Talk on the McCoy Jones Collection

Join the Textile Society of America for a one-hour virtual conversation with Andrew James Hamilton, winner of the 2025 R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award … [Read more...] about The Royal Inca Tunic: A Conversation with R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award Andrew James Hamilton

Kham and Amdo are remote, isolated and culturally Tibetan provinces in China. Their landscapes consist of snowy peaks and rolling grasslands on the … [Read more...] about "NOMAD FESTIVALS of the EASTERN GRASSLANDS of TIBET: Their Textiles, Costumes & Horse Trappings" with Cheri Hunter, Sponsored by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California

Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off … [Read more...] about "HOW TO GET DOWN FROM A YAK — Adventures in Central Asian Nomadic Textiles" with Christopher Aslan, presented by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California (TMA/SC)

Textile Talks: A Conversation with the Textile Society of America The International Quilt Museum presents a conversation with Executive Director … [Read more...] about Textile Talks

Mobility across the Atlantic has been shaped by a century of interaction between the West and the Horn of Africa. In its early years of independence … [Read more...] about Cotsen Textile Traces Talk: The Black Atlantic: Embroidery, Imperialism and Mobility in the Horn of Africa

Join author and former Textile Museum curator Judy Frater for a presentation and discussion of her 2024 book, Artisans by Design: An Odyssey of … [Read more...] about Book Talk: Artisans by Design by Judy Frater

A Webinar: withDr. Snezhanna Atanova, Author, Ethnologist, Assistant Professor,Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. For thousands of … [Read more...] about "SACRED THREADS: Heritage, Ritual, and Meaning in Turkmen Textiles”

In this talk, George Washington University professor Nabila Hijazi will share how her students explored Syrian textiles — analyzing examples … [Read more...] about Cotsen Textile Traces Talk: Syrian Refugees Stewarding Textile Heritage

The Karun Thakar Collection is internationally recognized for its focus on antique textiles and dress. It consists of many thousands of items whose … [Read more...] about KARUN THAKAR: A COLLECTOR OF COLLECTIONS in Conversation with Ben Evans of HALI Publications