From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
Lisa Monnas; V & A Publishing, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85177-656-6; 140 pages, 117 colour and 11 b/w ills., English text; £ 35 The author is a textile historian specialising in medieval and Renaissance European silks.... Read more
Exhibition of 19 March to 17 August 2014 at the Museum Arnhem. This was the fourth exhibition of “fine” art and textiles, we could visit in the past few months , first Mönchengladbach , then Wolfsburg , Bielefeld... Read more
Over the past five years textiles have increasingly featured in art exhibitions where curators and art scholars have described them from a rather one-dimensional perspective, regarding them as factors influencing the development of art, as... Read more
From 22 March until 30 December 2014 the Textile Museum St. Gallen is showing rarely shown objects from their collection of Asian textiles together with little-known pieces from the Swiss textile industry. In this exhibition... Read more
Through the summer of 2014 the installation “Koi Current” is on show (as a part of the exhibition “Clemenceau, le Tigre de l´Asie from 12 March to 16 June, 2014) at the Musée national des... Read more
A selection of over 30 individual objects is to present an impressive survey of the MAK’s holdings of distinctive, high-quality carpets with an emphasis on the unique examples of 16th and 17th-century Persian and Mamluk... Read more
The European Textile Network (ETN), set up at the opening of the borders to Eastern Europe in 1989/90, had members from former East-European countries at a very early date. Its 5th conference in 1995 took... Read more