From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
Another fantastic book by one of the Nordic Textile Artists, Norwegian Solveig Aalborg. When it arrived this spring, I remembered having published her huge work “Passing Through”, 202 x 398 cm, as part of “Artapestry... Read more
The Patterned Mind – Creative Methods in Surface Design, Laura Isoniemi My annual meetings with the Nordic Textile Artists keep me up to date on their various projects and publications. This time, Finnish designer and... Read more
Ann Richards: Weaving – Structure and Substance When I reviewed Ann Richards’ first book, “Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves”, in Textile Forum 2/2012, page 44, I wrote that this was the most interesting book on... Read more
Thread Magic – Weaving for Shape and Texture, Lotte Dalgaard and Paulette Adamson, Forlaget Mellemvaerk/DK, 2020, ISBN978-87-999832-3-0, text English, price 400 DKK (approx.53 Euro) Lotte Dalgaard is a well-known Danish weaver most noted for her... Read more
The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries by Micala Sidore; Schiffer Publishing, Atglen PA 19310, USA, 2020; 223 pages, 620 colour and 4 black-and-white photos, price US $ 45 Micala... Read more
Online archive of TEXTIL FORUM magazines When by the end of 2013, Dietmar Laue and I, stopped publishing the magazine Textile Forum, we wrote: “a positive consequence of our magazine issues published from 1982 to... Read more
I received a book that was published early 2019 by Phaidon Press, called “Vitamin F – Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art”. It did make clear that the divide between art in a craft... Read more