From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
The Slovak textile Artists Association TxT is organising their 16th Minitextile exhibition for professional textile artists and art students. The theme for 2014 will be “Textiles over Gold”, paraphrasing the tale ” Salt over Gold”... Read more
“Compression Resist: Shibori, Clamp-resist, and Ikat” at the China Naional Silk Museum (CNSM) in Hangzhou. 31 October to 4 November, 2014 Different aspects of this theme will be touched during the conference time, a.o. archeology,... Read more
The exhibition, taking place from 23 November 2013 to 1 June 2014, is the result of a collaboration between Lillehammer Art Museum and Maihaugen (Open Air Museum in Norwegen) on a presentation of textiles past... Read more
This study in German language treats a small collection of embroideries which was compiled by Fritz Iklé (son of Leopold Iklé) for the merchant of printed textiles and economic historian Adolf Jenny-Trümpy. With this collection... Read more
In 2012 – with financial support by the Zurich Silk Association (ZSIG) – the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art had initiated the Silk Memory project at the Textile Museum St. Gallen with the... Read more
This exhibition – on show from 31st January till 17 May 2014 at the London Fashion and Textile Museum – is benefiting from the current fashionable trend of art curators to search for textiles in... Read more
Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain & Annamarie Stapleton; Antique Collectors ‘Club Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk/UK, 2013, ISBN 978-1-85149-629-7; 303 pages, many colour- and black & white illustrations, English text. In its understanding of textile design this is... Read more