2020: 17th Biennial; Hidden Stories/Human Lives
2018: 16th Biennial; The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global
2016: 15th Biennial; Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port
2014: 14th Biennial; New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future
2012: 13th Biennial; Textiles and Politics
2010: 12th Biennial; Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyberspace
2008: 11th Biennial; Textiles as Cultural Expressions
2006: 10th Biennial; Textile Narratives and Conversations
2004: 9th Biennial; Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation
2002: 8th Biennial; Silk Roads, Other Roads
2000: 7th Biennial; Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints
1998: 6th Biennial; Creating Textiles: Makers, Methods, Markets
1996: 5th Biennial; Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles
1994: 4th Biennial; Contact, Crossover, Continuity
1992: 3rd Biennial; Textiles in Daily Life
1990: 2nd Biennial; Textiles in Trade
1988: 1st Biennial; Textiles as Primary Sources

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2018

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Embroidering Paradise: Suzanis As a Place of Creative Agency and Acculturation for Uzbek Women in 19th Century Bukhara, Shannon Ludington

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Ancient, Indigenous and Iconic Textile Motifs in Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance and Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde

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Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile in Chiapas Mexico, Addison Nace

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Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile in Chiapas, Mexico [poster], Addison Nace

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The Modern Development of Kyoto Textiles for the Kimono, Keiko Okamoto

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Silk Velvets Identified as Byzantine: Were warp-looped silk pile velvets woven under the Byzantine Empire?, Sumiyo Okumura

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Local Wear: A Chat about Textiles & the Body, Emily J. Pascoe

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Rahul Jain’s Reimagined Velvet Drawloom, Barbara Setsu Pickett

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Ties That Bind: Finding Meaning in the Making of Sacred Textiles, Janet Pollock

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Place-based Textiles in Post WWII Poland, Jane Przybysz

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The Rayed Head and Stepped Platform: A Core Symbol of the Southern Andean Iconographic Series, Nancy B. Rosoff

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Containing Tradition, Embracing Change: Weaving Together Plant Materials in Northern Latin America, Kathryn Rousso

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Along a Continuum: Spirally-woven Beadwork of the Tlingit, Wasco, and Pit River Peoples, Alice Scherer

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The Untold Story of Inuit Printed Fabrics from Kinngait Studios, Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada, Roxane Shaughnessy and Anna Richard

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The Fabric of War: Wool and Local Land Wars in a Global Context, Madelyn Shaw and Trish FitzSimons

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Nd’awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’elasawawôganôl: “We Wear the Clothing of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan

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Other People’s Clothes: The Second-Hand Clothes Dealer and the Western Art Collector in early Twentieth-Century China, Rachel Silberstein

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Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the function of material, Juliana Silva Diaz

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The Radical Fiber Art Practices of The Yarn Mission: A Case Study, Lila Stone

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Sanquhar Gloves: An Exemplification of Deep Local to Pan Global?, Angharad Thomas

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The Wagga Quilt in history and literature, Diana Mary Eva Thomas

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Warp and weft twining, and tablet weaving around the Pacific, Tomoko Torimaru, Kathryn Rousso, Laura Filloy Nadal, and Alejandro de Ávila B

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The Lévite Dress: Untangling the Cultural Influences of Eighteenth-Century French Fashion, Kendra Van Cleave

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Tapestry Crochet in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East: Tradition and Innovation, Carol Ventura

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Looking at the Past and Current Status of Kenya’s clothing and textiles, Mercy V.W. Wanduara

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Mashru Redux: From the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad to a Loom in the Great Plains, Wendy R. Weiss

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Manipulating the Threads of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler

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Threading together politics and poetics in Cecilia Vicuña’s fiber art, Jacqueline Witkowski

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Batik of Java: Global Inspiration, Maria Wronska-Friend

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The Global Influence of China and Europe on Local Japanese Tapestries Mainly from the 19th through Early 20th Centuries, Masako Yoshida

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Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress, C. Zimmerman

2016

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Abstracts & Author Biographies for Textile Society of America, 15th Biennial Symposium (2016): Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port

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Author Guidelines: Biennial Symposium 2016 Proceedings

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Symposium Program Outline for Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port. Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium. Savannah, GA, October 19-23, 2016.

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[TSA web pages for] Symposium 2016 -- Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium

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Transnational Influences on Louisiana Samplers: Traditions, Teachers, Techniques, and Text, Lynne Anderson

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Bead and Beadwork Traditions: A Study of Trade and Cultural Exchanges across the Coast of Gujarat, East Africa and the Red Sea, Medha Bhatt

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Bombay to Bauhaus: Design Influences in Churchill Weavers Textiles from 1922-1949, Sarah Stopenhagen Broomfield

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Growing a Dye Garden, Donna Brown

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Field to Bag, Bag to Field: Feedbag Production and Distribution in Rural America, Heather R. Buechler

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“The British are coming! A contraband cloth tsunami flows over Maya handicrafts and homespun in The Kingdom of Guatemala, 1760-1820”, Heather J. Chiero

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America’s Indigo Obsession: From Colonial Plantations to Contemporary DIY Ethos, Sonja Dahl

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Mexican ikat and transatlantic trade, Alejandro B. de Avila

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On Textile Fragments Found at Karadong, a 3rd to early 4th Century Oasis in the Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang, China), Sophie Desrosiers and Corinne Debaine-Francfort

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Dyeing with Morinda citrifolia: In Pursuit of Sustainable future, Sudha Dhingra

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Exploring Color Interactions Illuminated in Goldwork Embroidery, Katherine Diuguid

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Title: AJRAKH- A Textile Tradition in Transition, Sharmila J. Dua Prof. Dr.

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Lasting impressions: Indian block-prints and global trade, Eiluned Edwards

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Applications of Cross Dyeing with Natural Dyes, Catharine Ellis

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The fashion diplomacy and trade of Kashmir shawls: Conversations with shawl artisans, designers and collectors., Deborah Emmett

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Veiled in Ignorance and Clothed in Reason: Jimmie Durham’s 2014 Exhibition Traces and Shiny Evidence, Andrea Feeser

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Resilient Threads Telling Our Stories Hilos Resilientes Cosiendo Nuestras Historias, Carolina Paz Gana and Lynne M. Jenkins

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Sacred Currency: The Value of Textile in Colonial Andean Painting, Gaby Greenlee

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The Changing Role of Chaguar Textiles in the Lives of the Wichí, an Indigenous People of Argentina, Rachel Green

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The Effect of Colonization and Globalization in the shaping of Phulkari: A case study of the Textiles of Punjab, India, Anu H. Gupta and Shalina Mehta

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Seafarer People and their Textiles from Erub Arts, Torres Strait, Australia, Louise Hamby and Valerie Kirk

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Batik, ja, batik: Wiener Werkstätte Batik from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Cotsen Textile Traces Collections, Michaela Hansen

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Kashmir Shawls: The Perfect Exemplar of a Textile Shaping and Being Shaped, Joan Hart

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Ingenious and practical; parallels in the making of Arimatsu trade cloth and contemporary designers’ production, Ana Lisa Hedstrom

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Here and there, now, Sandra Heffernan

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New Tools in the Box: Traditional Methods, Contemporary Materials and New Techniques on the Atlantic Coast A Round Table Discussion, Memory Holloway and Laurie Carlson Steger

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Recycling Sprang, Carol James

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Drawing, Stitch, Translation, Archive, Janis Jefferies

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Aesthetics, Economics and the Enchantment of Cloth, Janis Jefferies and Barbara Layne

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Textile Art as a Locus of Colonization and Globalization: The Tapestry Project, EunKyung Jeong MFA, Ph.D.

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Imperial versus local perceptions of Indian textiles, Donald Clay Clay Johnson

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Performance, Adaptation, Identity: Cantonese Opera Costumes in Vancouver, Canada, Jean L. Kares

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Shifu: A Traditional Paper Textile of Japan, Hiroko Karuno

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The Story and the Stitch., Alice Kettle

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"Knit a Bit for Our First Line of Defense": Emotional Labor, Knitters, and Comforts for Soldiers during the First World War, Rebecca Keyel

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For What It’s Worth: The French Knot as a Basic Trade Commodity, Jeana Eve Klein

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Byzantine and Oriental silks from a Royal Shrine in Denmark AD 1100, Anne Hedeager Krag

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The Power of Color: Anatolian Kilims, Sumru Belger Krody

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Drawloom Velvet: Exploring a Centuries Old Tradition, Wendy Landry

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The Intercontinental Reflections of an Eighteenth-Century Mexican Rebozo, Eleanor A. Laughlin

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Sumptuary Synergy: British Imperialism Through the Tartan and Slave Trades, David Loranger and Eulanda A. Sanders

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“Meshed with a Million Veins”: Seafaring Networks & the Norfolk Sampler, Joanne Martin Lukacher

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Cutting edge technology: knitting in the early modern era, Jane Malcolm-Davies Dr.

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The Legacy of Yarn Dyed Cotton Lungis of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu: A Case Study, Vasantha M. Dr.

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FROM CHINTZ TO CHITA: A BRAZILIAN TEXTILE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY, Willian Nassu

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Velvet and Patronage: The Origin and Historical Background of Ottoman and Italian Velvets, Sumiyo Okumura Dr.

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Revitalization of the Handloom Heritage of Chhota Udepur, Gujarat, Bhatia Reena PhD. and Pawar Pooja M.Sc.

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Revitalization of the Handloom Heritage of Chhota Udepur, Gujarat, Bhatia Reena PhD. and Pawar Pooja

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WEST AFRICAN INDIGO TEXTILES UNDER INFLUENCES The Fouta-Djallon wrapper & the Mauritanian melhafa, Annie Ringuede

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Sadu Weaving: the pace of a camel in a fast-moving culture, Lesli Robertson

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Imagining Conquest: El Tapiz and Postrevolutionary Mexico*, Regina A. Root

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A Morenada Dance Costume: An Example of the Interconnection of the Americas, Spain and Africa, Nancy B. Rosoff

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Kanga Textile Design, Education, and Production in contemporary Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, MacKenzie Moon Ryan PhD.

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Engineered Ikat Textile of Gujarat - A Design Intervention, Shohrat S. Saiyed and Reena Bhatia Ph.D.

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“The Consular Collections at the National Museum of American History” Opening Plenary Session: Crosscurrents: the Transnational Flows of Textiles, Madelyn Shaw and Amy J. Anderson

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The Textile Artist’s Archive: Approaches to Creating, Collecting and Preserving Artistic Legacy, Jessica Shaykett, Kathleen Mangan, Lia Cook, Stephanie Zollinger Dr., and Fannie Ouyang

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Importing Irish Linen and Creating American ‘Art Moderne’: An Analysis of an Early 20th Century Trade Catalog, Lacy Simkowitz

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Mending as Metaphor: Finding Community Through Slow Stitching in a Fast Paced World, Ruth Katzenstein Souza

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EXPLORING ORIGINS: THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF TWO YORUBA MASQUERADE COSTUMES AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, Rebecca Summerour and Odile Madden

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Artist at Sea: Codes and Cargo, Kelly Thompson

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The Merchants and the Dyers: The Rise of a Dyeing Service Industry in Massachusetts and New York 1800-1850, Linda Jean Thorsen

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Tablet Weaving in Myanmar, Tomoko Torimaru

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SOME NATIONAL GOODS IN 1871: THE REBOZO, Marta Turok

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Early Modern Needlework Pattern Books: Tracing the International Exchange of Design, Lisa VandenBerghe

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The Nature of Collaboration in the Digital Age, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart