From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
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
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
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
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
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
Indian textile art from 13 December 2013 to 13 April 2014 at Museum Rietberg in Zurich (Gablerstr. 15, CH-8002) – The exhibition shows 27 extraordinary textiles from the important collection which the former director of... Read more
Art of the Precolumbian Era, Heidi King; Yale University Press, New Haven/USA, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16979-9; 232 pages, 200 colour ills., English text; $ 60 This attractive publication harks back to an exhibition entitled “Radiance... Read more