Visual Arts
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
A New Web-Based Costume Workbook
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
A ´Jacquard`Loom 60 Years before Jacquard´s ´Invention`
In general the following information is given: “1805 Patent on pattern weaving machine with punched cards by Joseph-Marie Charles Jacquard”. Jacquard may have been the first inventor able to file for a patent, yet the... Read more
The V&A Clothworkers Centre has Opened
This Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion at Blythe House in west London, offering unprecedented access to the museum’s textiles, receives about 800 requests for access from researchers a year. Visits... Read more
Plant Fibre Processing 77,000 Years Ago
We have reported in Textile Forum magazine 1/2010 about early traces of fibre processing over 30,000 years ago, found in the Dzudzuana cave in Georgia. Now we heard that already in 2010 important archaeological findings... Read more
Remarks to Textile and Fine Art
COMMENTS OF A FINNISH PAINTER AND ART CRITIC “While modernism has tried to set itself apart from everything else, it has also acted as a gluttonous beast. Whenever material from outside the lofty high-culture sphere... Read more
Feathered Wallhangings From Ancient Peru
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting from 16 September 2013 to 2 March 2014 twelve feather panels made by the Wari people of southern Peru between about AD 700 and 1000.... Read more