Textile and Art: Recent Developments
In recent years textile has increasingly become a medium of significance in the art world. In other words, the fibre arts are now being shown in many art exhibitions. Unfortunately, the work of those... Read more
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Expressive Tapestries – Johanna Schütz-Wolff
Exhibition update: Johanna Schütz-Wolff : Expressive Bildteppiche und Grafik, from 12.11.2015 to 28.2.2016 at Museum Starnberger See, Possenhofener Str.5, 82319 Starnberg, Germany, opening time: Tu. – Su. 10 – 17 h For September 2016 an exhibition with the work... Read more
The European Art Quilt Scene in the Context of Contemporary Textile Art”
This 6th European Quilt Triennial, taking place from 13 September to the 1st of January 2016 at the Heidelberg Textile Museum Max berk, shows works from 45 artists from 10 European countries. Entries were submitted by... Read more
Impressions from the 17th ETN Conference in Leiden
On this blog I will post some images from the 17th ETN Conference and the festivities of the Dutch Textiel Festival in Leiden. Here are the first ones, all made by myself (if not there... Read more
The 17th ETN Conference is ready to take off!
The final preparations are being made to begin in Leiden with the pre-conference trips to Tilburg and Amsterdam on May 13. This is also the day where the Dutch Textile Festival (held every fifth year)... Read more
The 17th ETN Conference
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 Fromholzer textile (hand) printing workshop of Ruhmannsfelden, Bavaria
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