From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
For the 17th time the Slovak Textile Arts Association TxT is organising an international mini-textile art exhibition. The theme this time is “Memory of Textile“. For this purpose, the organisers stated: “Textile is such a common... Read more
The 17th ETN Conference: Dutch Textile Art, Craft & Design from16 -17 May, 2015 in Leiden, the Netherlands Now well on its way, this European Textile Network Conference, part of the Dutch “Textiel Festival” organised... Read more
The beginnings The term ‘textile art’ emerged in the wake of the Lausanne Biennials during the Sixties and Seventies. Although entitled Tapestry Biennials, they were perceived as textile art events by contemporaries. The initial pioneers... Read more
This Biennial will be on view at the Museum Rijswijk near The Hague until 26 October 2014. Now in its 10th edition, 25 artists were selected for the show – four each from the US... Read more
From 9 May to 21 June 2015 the cultural association Arte & Arte will celebrate 25 years of activity. In harmony with the EXPO 2015, taking place from the 1st of May to the 31st... Read more
My desire to visit the Fromholzer hand printing workshop in Ruhmannsfelden sprang from a conversation with Maria Wronska-Friend, the author of our last magazine issue on Blaudruck – paste resist-printing on indigo-dyed cloth – in... Read more
This international meeting place for textile artists had taken place from June 18 to 28 in Kherson in southern Ukraine. Ludmila Egorova and Andrew Schneider, the founders and organisers of “Scythia”,, including an exhibition, fashion... Read more