From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
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
From 9 October,2013 to 12 October,2014 the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) is showing this exhibition of the Los Angeles based artist Pae White .In her work she develops new relationships between fine and... Read more
Art modernism is getting more and more fashionable. Now the textile arts shall suddenly be the leader for fashionable change in fine art. It started still slowly with Art Nouveau, spreading between 1896 and 1913,... Read more
Experienced members of the Costume Committee create „Clothes tell stories“: the Costume Workbook, an on-line catalog of written and visual ideas of how to show and use historical and contemporary costume in museums. The target... Read more