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Pasold Conference - Stockholm 2012 'Innovation before the Modern: Cloth and Clothing in the Early Modern World
A conference exploring technical developemnts in textile production before 1800.
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Surface Design Association 2013 Conference, Texas.
The 17th International Surface Design Association conference will be held June 6–9, 2013, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The Southwest School of Art will host events preceding and during the conference. Pre-conference workshops will be held June 1–5 and post-conference workshops will be June 10–14, 2013. »
The Value of Authenticity and Replication for Investigation and Conservation, a conference at the University of Glasgow, Dec. 6th-7th 2012.
We invite contributions for a conference exploring issues of authenticity with reference to textile conservation, dress and textile history or technical art history. The Research Network is funded by The Getty Foundation. »
The University of Wolverhampton invites proposals for papers that explore the collection, display, conservation and all other uses of dress and textiles in heritage settings, including museums and historic houses, in Britain and beyond.
Deadline 15 February 2012.
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Call For Papers - Australian Wool Innovation
Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) has announced its annual ‘Call for Proposals’ for organisations interested in on-farm R&D and off-farm R&D projects with AWI.
The deadline for proposals is 12 noon 1st February 2012.
Submissions are now invited for presenetations at the 3rd In the Loop conference. New and recent research in the form of short abstracts is welcome from practitioners, knitters, historians, conservators, theorists, educators, curators, technologists and the industry.
Deadline: March 1st 2012
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The Textile Society of America is pleased to solicit nominations for the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award for books published in 2011. Given annually, the award is meant to encourage the study and understanding of ethnic textile traditions by recognizing exceptional scholarship in the field. »
The Textile Society is pleased to announce the winners of its Professional Development Awards. £1000 has been presented Daniel C. Harris for his London Cloth Mill project. Runner up prizes of £500 were awarded to Tabitha Moses for Threshold and Leanne Tonkin Presenting a research poster at Symposium in Canada. »
An exciting new project will redisplay one of the world’s finest collections of William Morris artefacts.
The William Morris Gallery is the only public gallery devoted to Morris’s life, work and influence. Housed in Morris’s early home in Walthamstow, it holds an internationally significant collection of textiles, designs, wallpapers, furniture, ceramics and books associated with Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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The Textile Society is delighted to announce this special award and symposium, both of which are dedicated to the memory of Natalie Rothstein. The Society has received donations in Natalie’s memory to generously fund these two activities. »
The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston has just launched a website, partly funded by the Textile Society. The website is an important aspect of the 'Global Threads' project at the Harris which includes a fashion exhibition based on the 18 volume set of historic samples from across South Asia.
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Scotland's Textile Trail Website launched
A new website promoting Scotland's textile attractions has been launched. Members of the Scottish Textile Industry Association are listed. They offer mill tours and similar activities.
The Textile Society of America invites paper proposals for its upcoming symposium, Textiles & Politics, to be held in Washington, D.C. September 19-22, 2012.
Deadline 1st October 2011. »
At New Designers this year, Kate Webster was selected as the winner of the Lucienne Day Award. Kate works with indigo-dyed, recycled knitwear which she often felts to create interesting textures and tones. »
The University of Glasgow is launching a new taught one-year masters programme in Dress and Textile Histories which I thought might be of interest to your members as it will incorporate textiles as well as dress.
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The emphasis of this project is the terrible plight of the women who had to leave their children with the Foundling Hospital because they could no longer look after them.
It launches at the Knitting & Stitching Show 2011.
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The 9th International Biennial Symposium and Exhibition on Textile Art "Scythia 9" takes place at Kherson, Ukraine,
June 19-24, 2012.
It is now open for submissions.
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The Textile Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Museum Award. There are two awards: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will receive £3000 towards Lost in Lace: Concealed & Revealed, an exhibition of lace; the William Morris Gallery has been granted a £2000 award for the Battye Embroidered Hanging: redisplaying the work of May Morris. »
The magnificent Unicorn tapestries commissioned for the Queen’s Inner Hall of the Palace at Stirling Castle are now almost complete and can be seen by visitors. They have been woven by hand, using techniques dating back to the 1400s.
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The University of Manchester will shortly be advertising for a lecturer in woven textiles. The post will commence in September 2011 and the vacancy is due to the retirement of the former postholder from the Textile Design and Design Management programme. »
The Quilters’ Guild’s project ‘Unfolding the Quilts’, based at the Quilt Museum and Gallery in York, has reached the semi-finals of the National Lottery Awards, the annual search to find Britain’s favourite Lottery-funded projects, in the ‘Best Heritage Project’ category.
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The Textile Society of America announces the resignation of President Ruth Scheuing.Ruth, served as Vice President (2008-2010) and as President since October, 2010.TSA would like to thank Ruth for her years of service and invaluable leadership to the organization.
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After the success of the first Three Shires Textile Festival in 2009, the organisers are busy promoting the Textile Triangle for 2011 and gearing up for another fantastic festival in 2013.
They are looking for businesses and organisations that would like to be involved in 2013
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This offer is available to members of the Textile Society Collectors Group only. »
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair at Spinnngfields Oct 20th- 23rd is a high profile, high quality selected event that showcases the finest contemporary craft coming out of the North and gives makers from other parts of the country an opportunity to establish a northern client base.
HARDMAN BOULEVARD, SPINNINGFIELDS, MANCHESTER, M3 3AQ
Deadline for applications 29th of April 2011
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The winners of the 2011 Textile Society student bursaries were announced at the ATF on March 6th.
For the first time six finalists were invited to showcase their work on at the fair in Manchester.
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Wessex Film and Sound Archive launch a new online resource. A searchable online and films can be viewed in the search room at WFSA or Hampshire Record Office. Film is an excellent resource when looking at the clothes of real people.
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The textile scoiety is pleased to announce a special award to the Harris Museum, to help it complete a project to scan and make available on line the complete Manufactures of India by John Forbes Watson. »
Call for Abstractss - ITB, CCA and Ars Textrina, Indonesia
An invitation has gone out to submit an abstract for consideration as a presentation at the forthcoming ITB, CCA and Ars Textrina International Textiles and Costume Congress. The theme is Heritage Textiles and Costume. The event will be hosted by ITB (in Bandung, Indonesia). Deadline April 1st.
BBC TWO's primetime quiz, Antiques Master, is back and
they are on the hunt to find the next amateur antiques expert worthy of the title.
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The Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust is launching a new campaign to promote its educational grants for the children of people working in the UK fashion and textiles sector.
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Walthamstow's William Morris Gallery has added a fine carpet to its collections. Featuring two large peacocks at its heart, the carpet is a splendid example of the quality of design and craftsmanship achieved by Morris. »
Waltham Forest is celebrating a significant boost: confirmation that Walthamstow’s William Morris Gallery is being granted £1.5m by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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An exciting art textile installation is being planned that will incorporate historical garments and artefacts from 1500 to present day to tell the story of London.
Participants are being sought to work under the direction of Rosalind Wyatt. More details here. »
In 2012, to celebrate the reopening of the newly presented palace, Kensington Palace will be holding a conference exploring the theme of monarchy and its relationship to the modern world.
One strand will look at royal dress and material culture.
Deadline for proposals is 30 November 2010. »
The winners of this year's Textile Society student bursary awards were announced at the Society's new London Antique Textile Fair on Sunday 26th September. Jennifer Sturrock fromn the London College of Fashion was the winner of the 'Undergraduate Student Bursary, whilst Julie James-Turner from University of Central Lancashire took home the Postgraduate Student Bursary.
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Following the closure of the Textile Conservation Centre in October 2009 by the University of Southampton , The Textile Conservation Centre Foundation and the University of Glasgow agreed to found a new teaching and research facility, The Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History, the only resource of its kind in the UK . »
The Textile Society has announced the latest winners and finalists of its various awards and bursaries. »
Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800
The V&A Museum is offering a 2.5 years full-time to a Research Fellow, who will focus on gathering, analysing and presenting data on creativity and innovation in French fashion, 1500-1800 and on its transmission from one location to another. »
James Hare add to their collections of distinctive fabrics in preparation for the Decorex exhibition held in London this year. The leading silk specialists will be offering designers an innovative and moving colour palette along with new enticing textures and patterns. »
The Textile Conservation Centre Foundation (TCCF) and the University of Glasgow have agreed to found the new teaching and research facility - the only resource of its kind in the UK - in the University's Robertson Building. »
With cuts to the arts announced by the new government SIT faces an uncertain future. The organisation, which promotes and supports contemporary crafts, has launched a fund raising appeal.
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Shaftesbury Abbey Museum is researching the history of a once important craft industry. They hope to revive Dorset Button making by forming a local co-operative for the benefit of the local area, and develop the opportunity for a social enterprise based on the local heritage of the Dorset Button industry. »
Emily Brennan is working on a project with Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew researching the lace-bark tree of Jamaica and the textile material that comes from the bark of this amazing tree.
She is seeking examples of this textile in collections in Britain. »
Wearable Art: A Walking Picture Book is the title of a forthcoming project by Kelly Allen. Kelly Allen is a Senior Lecturer at Textile Society Member the Arts University College, Bournemouth. She has been awarded a Research Fellowship at AUCB to start in September 2010. »
A collaborative doctoral studentship has been awarded for a project entitled ‘Tapestry as Modern Art: the Case of Dovecot Studios’, led by Martin Hammer (University of Edinburgh) in collaboration with David Weir (Dovecot Studios). »
The plans for the William Morris Gallery Development Project are progressing and they plan to submit a round two bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund by June 2010. Public consultations have gone well and have had a positive response to the plans for the development. »
Cheshire East Council has found funding to keep open the Park Lane site of Macclesfield Museum. The building was facing closure from May 1st.
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The Department of History at Glasgow University and Shetland Museum and Archives have combined to fund a doctoral studentship on the History of Lace Knitting in Shetland. »
On March 29th LCC University of the Arts, London launched its new website to promte the Creative Opportunities two day festival. »
Fabricating the Body:
Textiles and human health in historical perspective
Pasold Research Fund Conference
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
6 – 8 April, 2011
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Nathalie Rothstein, one of the founder members of the Textile Society, has died, aged 80.
This obituary was written by Audrey Duck »
Lucienne Day, the eminent textile designer and the first president of the Textile Society, has died, at the age of 93.
The following obituary was written by the current president, Mary Schoeser. »
Staffordshire University, holders of the Betty Smithers Design Collection, has begun research and conservation on its collection of South American costume dolls made by Norman Hartnell. »
The Textile Conservation Centre has at last found a new home at the University of Glasgow. The full press release, issued on March 24th 2010, is available here. »
Redbridge Museum is looking for items to support its planned autumn exhibition, looking at the area's strong links to the East India Company during the late 17th - 19th centuries.
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Manchester Craft & Design Centre provides a sympathetic working environment, encouraging the development of new businesses and supporting the growth of established enterprises. They have a studio becoming available at the end of March.
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Knitting: origins and evolution
A four day international conference in Lerwick, Shetland, 1-4 September 2010. This is a collaborative event between Shetland Museum and Archives and the University of Southampton Library. The joint organisers are Dr. Carol Christiansen and Linda Newington. »
Berg & Oxford University Press Sign Agreement for Global Distribution of the Berg Fashion Library »
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney has launched its call for expressions of interest for this award on the web.
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Duck - Journal for Research in Textiles and Textile Design
An open access peer reviewed online journal for research in textiles and textile design, published by Loughborough University. »
The new brochure contains over 300 weekend courses from January to December 2010 in a wide range of subjects, including many textile related crafts. »
The United Nations International has dedicated 2009 to natural fibres. It seeks to focus world attention on the role that natural fibres play in contributing to food security and poverty alleviation.
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Caroline Allison has been awarded this year's prestigeous Textile Society Award. The awarad was selected from exhibitors at New Designers in London. »
The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) is among the many British crafts companies commissioned by English Heritage to create an extraordinary array of period furniture, wall hangings, textiles and artefacts for Dover Castle to evoke the appearance and atmosphere of the keep, or the Great Tower, on the occasion of a royal visit around 1184.
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Bonnie Corwin has announced the launch of Textiles Asia Newsletter. The new publication seeks to keep people interested in Asian textiles connected.
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The Textile Society is pleased to announce that the V&A has won this year's Museum, Libraries and Archives grant. In a tight finale which saw tough competition from the Quilt Museum in York, the London museum came out on top. The grant is for the conservation of a patchwork quilt. »
The Shape of Things has announced the award of eight bursaries for the production of new work using craft media. The makers include textile artists Alinah Azadeh, Seiko Kinoshita (whose Gentle Rain is shown), Tanvi Kant and Maggie Scott. The artist-makers will work in partnership with a venue to produce new work for an exhibition or installation. »
It is confirmed that the University of Southampton will close the Textile Conservation Centre on 31st October 2009. »
Silver Studio collection receives designation.
Great news: the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) has been granted 'Designated Collection' status from the Museum, Library and Archives Council (MLA) for its Silver Studio collection. The collection of 5,000 textile samples, 5,000 wallpaper samples and over 40,000 original designs on paper forms an archive of one of Britain's leading commercial design studios active between 1880 and 1963.