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TEXT Journal
Copies of past issues are available
Vols 33-38 (full colour) £5 each
Earlier issues(black & white) £2.50 each
Volume 38 - 2010/11
Articles
- An Unsustainable Demand: The Trade in Orchil Lichens Seen Through a 19th Century Archive
Isabella Whitworth - Taking Indigo into the Future
Jenny Balfour Paul - Is Jamaican lace-bark (Lagetta lagetto) a sustainable material?
Emily Brennan and Mark Nesbitt - Sustainable Design Strategies: Eco Chic the Fashion Paradox
Sandy Black - Carbon Footprinting in the Fashion Industry: Continental Clothing’s Approach
Emma Waight
Exhibition and Book Reviews
- Quilts 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories
reviewed by Holly Pulsford - Kanthas: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal
reviewed by Lynn Setterington - hreads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770
reviewed by Nicola Jarvis
Award and Bursary Reviews
- Textile Society/Student Bursary Art and Design Award 2009 - Linda Barlow
- Textile Society/Student Bursary Science Award 2009 - Stephanie Gilchrist
- Textile Society/Student Bursary History Award 2009 - Leanne C Tonkin
- Textile Society/ Museum Award Winner 2009 - Rachel Fenn and Claire Smith
- Textile Society/Student Bursary Critical Writing Award 2010 - Hollie Price
- Textile Society/Professional Development Award 2009 - Heather Toomer
- Textile Society/Professional Development Award 2009 - Linda Brassington
Volume 37 - 2009/10 SOLD OUT
Articles
- More Appreciation than Appropriation: Persian and Indian
Influences in Textiles by Thomas Wardle
Brenda King - Colour and Corruption: Issues in the 19th Century Anglo-Indian
Textile Trade
Sonia Ashmore - Japanese Inspiration and the ‘Art’ of Victorian Art Embroidery
Elizabeth Kramer - Going into Trousers: Mix and Match with Logic. Influence of
the West on Japanese Clothing Post-1868.
Sheila Cliffe - The Textile Decorations of Giotto, Simone Martini and their
Schools Paola Frattaroli
Paola Frattaroli
Exhibition and Book Reviews
- Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings,
1300-1550
by Lisa Monnas, reviewed by Mary Schoeser - Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and
Object-Based Research
Edited by Maria Hayward and Elizabeth Kramer, reviewed by Lamora Lucia Haidar - The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850
Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi, reviewed by Emily Baines - My Most Treasured Pieces: Textiles from the Henry Ginsburg Collection
reviewed by Janie Lightfoot - A Textile Dynasty: Arthur H Lee & Sons An Exhibition Celebrating Lee’s
Tapestry Works, Birkenhead, 1908-1970
reviewed by Ngozi Ikoku - Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism
reviewed by Keren Protheroe
Award and Bursary Reviews
- Textile Society/New Designers Award 2009 - Caroline Allison
- Textile Society/Art and Design Award 2008 - Sophie Charles
- Textile Society/Science Award 2008 - Jane Scott
- Textile Society/History Award 2008 - Hannah Barrett
- Textile Society/Museum Award 2008 - Polly Putnam
Volume 36 - 2008/9
Articles
- Polka knitting in the mid-nineteenth century
Helen Bonney - Wholegarment knitwear: new ways of making clothes
Annie Shaw - Seven minutes of explosion - a story of two women
Jeanette Sendler - Unravelling the knitting pattern
Jennie Atkinson
Historical Notebook
- A sign of some degree - the mystery of capping
Kirstie Buckland - Women, technology and knitting
Cilla Mann - Hidden skills of an English housewife
Marilyn Willis
Exhibition and Book Reviews
- Museums, Archives & Resource Centres
Volume 35 - 2007/8 SOLD OUT
Articles
- Brief History of Textile Society's 25 years
Mary Schoeser. President - 'Imbued with Modern Spirit' Textile Design at The Silver Studio 1919-1924
Keren Protheroe. Kingston University - All That Glistens is not Gold
Frances Pritchard. Curator (Textiles) The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Historical Notebook
- Stead McAlpin: HIstory and Development of Textile Printing
Alan James. Former Print Manager - Evidence for hand knitting from Elizbethan England 1560-1600
Lesley O'Connell Edwards. Independent scholar - The altar frontals come home
Margorie Dickinson
Exhibition and Book Reviews
- Museums, Archives & Resource Centres
Volume 34 - 2006/7
Articles
- Stead McAplin: its History and Archive part 1
Alan James - From Luxury to common goods
Ceri Isaac - North Country Quolts and Quilters
Dorothy Osler
Historical Notebook
- Finds From Manchester Cathedral
Marjorie Dickinson - Straw embrpoidery on the Altar Frontals at Nozeroy, France
Barbara Fitch
Bursary and Award Reports
- Textile Scoiety/New Designers Award and the Lucienne Day Award
Ruth Brompton-Charlesworth - May Favourite Songs
Malin Svard - So Near and Yet so Far
Claire Diamond - My Dutch and Danish Experience
Laura Glasel
Volume 33 - 2005/6
Articles
- Skin Stories: Charting and Mapping the Skin
Zane Berzina - Italy versus the UK in Tailoring and Textiles
Alan Cannon Jones - Chinese Embroidered Banners: Gifts in the late Qing Dynasty
Sem Longhurst - The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
Christine Lea
Historical Notebook
- Pattern and Place: The Allover Wave Quilting Pattern in the regions surrounding the Irish Sea
Celia Eddy - An Analysis of the Diverse Nature of the Quilt in American and Welsh Societies since the late Nineteenth Century
Jane Smith
Book Reviews
- Disentangling Textiles: Techniques for the Study of Designed Objects – Edited by Mary Schoeser and Christine Boydell
Reviewed by Philip Sykas - The Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Colour of Desire – Amy Butler Greenfield
Reviewed by Lucy Trench - M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry –Doris Schattschneider
Reviewed by Sandy Black - The Colourful Past: Origins, Chemistry and Identification of Natural Dyestuffs – Judith H. Hofenk de Graaff
Reviewed by Sue Kerry
Volume 32 – 2004/5
Articles
- Through the Surface
Lesley Millar - The Space Between Art, Textiles, Design, Fashion
Jennifer Shellard - Comfort, Simplicity and Form in Contemporary Asian Textiles and Fashion
Sandy Black - "Small Presents Confirm Friendship”: the ‘Gifting’ of Clothing and Textiles in England from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries
Miles Lambert
Historical Notebook
- The Bird Motif on the Poster and Fliers for the Antique Textile Fair, March 2004, and the Back Cover of TEXT 2003-4 ;
Joan K. Archer - An Investigation into an Engraver’s Life
Sarah Wain
Book Reviews
- Wedding Dresses from the Bowes Museum Collection – by Joanna Hashagen
Reviewed by Susan North - Foundations of Fashion: The Symington Corsetry Collection 1860-1990 ; by Phillip Warren
Reviewed by Charlotte Samuels
- Knitwear in Fashion; by Sancy Black
Reviewed by Dr Ruth Brompton
Volume 31 – 2003/4 SOLD OUT
Articles
- Eileen Ellis
Mary Schoeser - A Sense of Place: The Work of Linda Kemshall and Laura Kemshall
Ruth Brompton - Accessories to Envy
Colette Gilmartin - Textile Buttons of the 19th Century
Ann Gibson
- Fit for a Queen: A Fragment of a Court Dress Belonging to Marie-Antoinette
Kimberley Chrisman-Campbell
- British Art Deco Textiles 1910-1940: From Imitation to Adaptation
Charlotte Samuels
Historical Notebook
- Innovation and Fashion Leadership: Studio Design in the Printed Textiles Industry
Emily Baines - The Textiles at Montacute House, Somerset, and their Presentation
Margaret South
Book Reviews
- Animal Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna – by Rafaella Serena
Reviewed by Ruth Brompton - Art Nouveau Designers at the Paris Salons 1895-1914 Vol. VI: Textiles and Leather ; by Alastair Duncan
Reviewed by Ann Gibson
- High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art from the 9th to the 19th Century – Pauline Johnstone
Reviewed by Ilse Ritchie
- Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain – by Virginia Gardner Troy
Reviewed by Sem Longhurst - Art Deco Textiles – by Charlotte Samuels
Reviewed by Sandy Black
- Seidengewerbe Des 18 Jahrhunderts II: Naturalismus – Anna Jolly
Reviewed by Edmund Launert
Volume 30 – 2002/3
Articles
- My Career as an Invisible Designer
Pat Etheridge - Colleen Farr and the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Museum and Study Collections
Mary Schoeser - Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell: a Retrospective and the Collier Campbell Archive
Lyn Broster - Prestige Robes of the Hausa-Fulani in Liverpool Museum
Sarah Worden
Historical Notebook
- Fabrics, Dress and the Promotion of Fashion: Jolly’s of Bath c. 1860-1908
Julie Bowyer - Textile Cargoes from the East: 1670-1740
Myrtle Campbell - The Needlework of the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus
Gillian Grute - The Rag Trade
David Brunnschweiler
Book Reviews
- Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference – Edited by Pat Kirkham
Reviewed by Sue Kerry - Jessie and the Dolphins –Tatiana Tekkel
Reviewed by Joanna Hashagen
Volume 28 – 2000
Articles
- How the Search for a Tabouret
Ended in a Doll’s
House
Annabel Westman - “Chippendale Concealed”:
A Chintz Covered Bed Cornice from Harewood House, Yorkshire
Mary M Brooks - Churchill’s Costume at Chartwell
Century
Roz Morris
Historical Notebook
- Strands of Hair
Pompi Parry - Textiles at Sunnycroft, A National Trust House
Barbara Allen - Ryijy
Karen Greenwood Young
Book Reviews
- Eighteenth Century Costume in the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside – Pauline Rushton
Reviewed by Lesley Ellis Miller - Peter Collingwood: Master Weaver
Reviewed by Anna Earle - World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
Reviewed by Freda Chapman - A Dictionary of Lace – Pat Earnshaw
Reviewed by Ruth Brompton - Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design
Reviewed by Christine Boydell
Volume 25 – Winter 1997 SOLD OUT
Articles
- Notes on the Manchester and West Afria Cotton Trade 1900-1939
Frederika Launert - Zimbabwean Embroideries – An Income Generating Project for Mothers of Disabled Children
Angharad Thomas - Local Directories and the Men’s Clothing Trade 1827-1925
Jenny Silverthorne Wright
Historical Notebook
- Printed Commemorative Derby Squares
John Greenwood
Book Reviews
- Silk – Jacques Anquetil
Reviewed by Lesley Miller - Four Centuries of Lancashire Cotton – Geoffrey Timmins and The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History since 1700 – Edited by Mary B Rose
Reviewed by Frederika Launert
Volume 24 – Winter 1996 SOLD OUT
Articles
- Batik in America and Britain 1920-1930: The Early Career
of Marion Dorn
Christine Boydell - Textiles, Traditions and the Marketplace
Susan Conway - The Conservation of Modern Materials – A Raincoat Designed by Mary Quant
- All that glitters … LeRoy
and Embroidery
Fiona Ffoulkes
Historical Notebook
- R. Cressy & Sons Limited
John Greenwood
Book Reviews
- Lace Machines and Machine Laces – Pat Earnshaw
and How to Recognise Machine Laces – Pat Earnshaw
Reviewed by Dr Pat Sterry - Nepalese Textiles – Susi Dunsmore
Reviewed by Angela Lodge
Volume 21 – Spring/Summer 1994 SOLD OUT
Articles
- An Indonesian Ikatted Warp
Angela Lodge - Textile Research: An Integrated Approach
Susan Conway - Textile Study Tour of Thailand
Angela Thompson - Textiles of the Miao Minority
Deryn O’Connor - Japanese Resist Dyeing
Sue Leighton-White - Hand Made Textiles in India
Lesley Edwards
Historical Notebook
- Woodblocks to Microchips
John Greenwood
Book Reviews
- Ottoman Embroidery – Roderick Taylor
Reviewed by Fevzi Orhanoglu - Fashion Design Illustration-Women
Reviewed by Gillian Holman - A Visual History of Costume: The Sixteenth Century – Jane Ashelford
Reviewed by Fiona Ffoulkes - Coco Chanel – Alice Mackrell
Reviewed by Marie-Louise Lowcock - The Handknitter’s Handbook – Montse Stanley
Reviewed by Jan Truman
Volume 18/19 – Autumn/Winter 1992
Articles
- Catalan Bobbin Lace
Jordi Palomer i Pons - Pride and Prejudice in 18th Century Spain
Lesley Miller - Sant Valeri’s Set of Vestments
Rosa M Martin i Ros - Aurelia Munoz
Mary Schoeser - Exchange Visit to Barcelona
Emma Whitton - Research on the Silk Industry in Spain
Eulalia Morral i Romue - Could Barcelona Ever Lead the Textile Industry?
Brenda King
Book Reviews
- Diccionario Textil – Manuel Estany and
Diccionario de la Moda – Leon Zeldis
Reviewed by Montse Stanley - French Textiles from 1760 to the Present Day – Mary Schoeser and Kathleen Dejardin
Reviewed by Lesley Miller - Fashion in Photographs 1860-1880 – Miles Lambert
and Fashion in Photographs 1880-1900 – Sarah Levitt
Reviewed by Alison Dunne - Thai Textiles – Susan Conway
Reviewed by Mary Schoeser
Volume 17 – Spring 1992
Articles
- Wax Resist Printing
Drawn from an essay by Ilse Ritchi, edited by Mary Shoeser - Spotting the True Image
John Greenwood - The Design Archive, Arthur Sanderson & Sons Limited
Elenor Gawne - New Printed Textiles from India
Linda Brassington - Industry, Printed Textile Design and the Mass Market in the 1950’s
Alex Russell - Boxing Banners
Steve Smith - Library Banners
Alex Russell
Book Reviews
- Textile Designs – Susan Mellor, Joost Elffers
Reviewed by Mary Schoeser - Crown House Collection of Documents – Crown House Publishing
Reviewed by Brenda King - The New Textiles: Trends & Traditions – Chloe Colchester
Reviewed by Mary Schoeser - Embroiderers – Kay Staniland and
Embroidered Stuart Pictures – Margaret Swain
Reviewed by Paul Harrison - Threads of Lace – Pat Earnshaw
Reviewed by Laura Ponsonby - Linen Hand Spinning and Weaving – Patricia Bains
Reviewed by Linda Coleing - Classic Printed Textiles from France 1760-1843 – Josette Bredif
Reviewed by Linda Coleing