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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Hidden Stories/Human Lives: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium, October 15-17, 2020--Full Program with Abstracts & Bios

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An Uncommon Ammunition Case: Interpreting “Transitional” Textiles and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska, Laura J. Allen

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By Land and by Sea: Displaced Samplers Reveal Women on the Move, Lynne Anderson PhD

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Intertwining the past and the present through textiles, experiences in the communities, a vision from Peru, Rommel Angeles Falcón

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India in Situ: Textile History and Practice, a Team Approach, Annin Barrett, Carol Bier, Anna Jolly, Louise W. Mackie, and Barbara Setsu Pickett

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Four Artists: My Angels and Mentor, Polly Barton

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Enigmatic Mediterranean Silk Quilts, Kathryn Berenson

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Modernist Influences in Churchill Weavers Textiles: 1922-1949, Sarah Stopenhagen Broomfield

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Artistic Philanthropy and Women’s Emancipation in Early Twentieth-Century Italy, in the Life and the Work of Romeyne Robert and Carolina Amari, Maria Luciana Buseghin

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Many Makers: Collaborative Renewal of Chahta Nan Tvnna (Choctaw Textiles), Jennifer Byram

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Casting a Wide Net: The Value of Collaboration and Outreach with Source Communities in the Analysis of Historic Native American Fishing Nets, Annabelle Fichtner Camp and The Lenape Tribe of Delaware

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Ethnoarchaeology of the Textile Chaîne Operatoire. Searching for Evidence of Prehispanic Textile Production in Domestic Sites, Bárbara Cases

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The souls of the dead: images woven in women’s clothing of the Jalq’a cultural area (south-central Bolivia), Veronica Cereceda

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Clothing the Black Body in Slavery, Wanett Clyde

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Schoolgirl Embroideries & Black Girlhood in Antebellum Philadelphia, Kelli Racine Coles

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Signed in Silk and Silver: Examining an Eighteenth-Century Torah Ark Curtain and its Maker, Genevieve Cortinovis and Miriam Murphy

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People, landscape and wool weaving in Venezuelan Andes, María Dávila and Eduardo Portillo

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The yuraq haku, or plain mantle: A long tradition of north-central Perú, María Elena del Solar and Crestina Jara

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Aso Òkè Weaving Techniques and Perception in Iseyin, Oyo State, Nigeria, Idowu Jamiu Diyaolu and Halima Ronke Omotosho

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The Arts of Urgency: textile practices and truth-telling, Catherine Dormor

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Camelid Fleece and the Hidden Histories of Colors in the Andes, Penelope Dransart

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Glitched Metaphors: Dysfunction in Hand-Woven Digital Jacquard, Gabe Duggan

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Coming Together Again: A Case Study on Persian Silk Woven Textiles, Tayana Fincher

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Contemporary Oneida Beadwork: Revitalized Identity Through an “Adopted” Art Form, Beverly Gordon

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Behind the scenes: Hidden stories of Craftswomen of Punjab, India, Anu H. Gupta

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Cassimere: Hiding in Plain Sight, Peggy Hart

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Shared Provenance: Investigating Safavid-Mughal Cultural Exchange Through Luxury Silks in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nazanin Hedayat Munroe

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Textile Memory in Colchane: Weavers Revitalizing the Aymara Tradition, Soledad Hoces de la Guardia

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Freedom Quilt: Collective Patchwork in Post-Communist Hungary, Christalena Hughmanick

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Tribal Textiles and the Mingei Circle in Japan: Muneyoshi Yanagi’s View on Carpet, Yumiko Kamada

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A Walk through Contemporary South Asian Textile “Daatsans”, Rohma Khan

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Prejudiced Commodities: Understanding Knowledge Transfer from India to Britain through Printed and Painted Calicoes, 1720-1780, Aditi Khare

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Between Craft and Design: Lucienne Day and Eszter Haraszty, Kevin Kosbab

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The Maker’s Mark?: An Examination of an Embroidered Rebozo and its Potential Signature, Eleanor A. Laughlin

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The Lost Narrative of Natalia Shabelsky’s Collection of Russian Textiles, Lauren Lovings-Gomez

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Invisibility, Marginalization and Renown in a 20th Century Textile Arts Revitalization Movement in New Mexico, Suzanne P. MacAulay

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Stories of Welcome Blanket Makers: Towards a Philosophy of Craft, Alesia Maltz

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Ways of Life and Works of Weaving and Dyeing in Okinawa: Toward a Possible Solution of Carry on Concern, Yuka Matsumoto

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Making Siapo in Leone Today, Regina A. Meredith Fitiao MFA

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Arpilleras the Vessels of Chile’s Resistance, Soledad Fátima Muñoz

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Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture, Olimpia Newman and Rebecca Abrams

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Scandal and Imprisonment: Gold Spinners of 17th Century England, Tricia Wilson Nguyen

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The Nantucket Looms: Historicism and Modernism in an Island Cottage Industry, Jennifer Nieling

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Tameji Ueno: A Living National Treasure of Kyoto Textiles, Keiko Okamoto

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The Hidden Story of the Quilted Cover in the Benaki Museum Collection, Sumiyo Okumura

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Henna Ritual Clothing in Anatolia from Past to Present: An Evaluation on Bindalli, Ozlen Ozgen, Feryal Soylemezoglu, Zeynep Erdoğan, and Sevinc Arcak

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Plants in the Tapestry (Literally), Ann H. Peters and Adriana Soldi S.

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Viscacha: luxury, fate and identification in Precolumbian Textiles, Elena Phipps and Caroline Solazzo

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Artistic Philanthropy and Women’s Emancipation in Early Twentieth-Century Italy, in the Life and the Work of Romeyne Robert and Carolina Amari, Ruggero Ranieri

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From Birth to Death. The Silk-Flower Industry in Mexico., Adriana Sanromán Peyron

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Of Prophets, Caterpillars, and Silver: Job and the Origin-story of Sericulture in the Early Modern Islamic World, Nader Sayadi

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Project to Recover Prehispanic Textile Techniques in Peru: A brief review, from its initiation to today, Yuki Seo

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Where Can Objects Take You? The Case of the World War II Japanese Airman's Suit, Madelyn Shaw and Trish FitzSimons

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Alnôbakskwak: Native American Women Making Ceremonial Regalia, Vera Longtoe Sheehan

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Unseen, unheard, unnamed: The matchless and unsung heroes of the textile art and craft of Rajasthan, Simrita Singh and Anu H. Gupta

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Creating the Sensible: Weaving the Colonial Aesthetic at a Colonial Obraje, Maria Smith

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Inscription, Iconography, and the Individual: A Late Antique Textile from the Harvard Art Museums in Context, Katherine M. Taronas

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A Compared Study of Miao Embroidery and Ancient Chinese Embroidery: The Cultural and Historical Significances, Tomoko Torimaru

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Ties that bind the daily lives of carpet traders: An ethnographic exploration of the everyday lives of carpet traders through their kinship ties, moral economies, and acts of everyday diplomacy in Iran, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, Felix van den Belt

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Transformative Power of Stitchery: Sashiko from Cold Regions of Japan and Embroidery Work of the Nui Project, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

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Kenyan Basketry (Ciondo) by Women from Central and Eastern Kenya, Mercy Wanduara

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Wool Sells Itself: tracing the movement of Navajo-raised wools, Emily Winter

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The State of Traditional Albanian Kilims, their Motifs and Narratives, Alexis Zoto

2018

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Abstracts of Papers: Textile Society of America 16th Biennial Symposium

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Symposium 2018 -- Program & Information: The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium

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Eliza Calvert Hall, A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets, and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia, Philis Alvic

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Schoolgirl Embroideries: Integrating Indigenous Motifs, Materials, and Text, Lynne Anderson

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Wrapped in Wool: Coast Salish wool weaving, Vancouver’s public art, and unceded territory, Alison Ariss

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Yours, Mine & Ours: Beyond Appropriation, Suzi Ballenger and Charlotte Hamlin

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Timberline Textiles: Creating a Sense of Place, Annin Barrett

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Italian Bedfellows: Tristan, Solomon & “Bestes”, Kathryn Berenson

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Co-creating Craft; Australian Designers meet Artisans in India, Katherine Bissett-Johnson and David Moorhead

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Chilean Arpilleras: Writing a Visual Culture, R. Darden Bradshaw

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The Future of Textiles: Disruption and Collaboration, Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid, David Breslauer, Suzanne Lee, Anais Missakian, Abby-George Erikson, and Salem van der Swaagh

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Reawakening Chahta Nan Tvnna (Choctaw Textiles), Jennifer Byram

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Common Sense & Pin Money: The Material Culture and Legacy of Lula Annie Butler 1909-2009, Robin Michel Caudell

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Balancing local tradition and global influences: Design and business education for traditional artisans in Kachchh, India, Ruth Clifford

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The Tent-Dweller: Visual Markers of Migration in Art, Sara Clugage

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Whitework: The Cloth and Call to Action, Sonja Dahl

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Fish in the desert – North Africa’s textile tradition between indigenous identity and exogenous shifts in meaning, Silvia Dolz

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Mind’s Eye and Embodied Weaving: Simultaneous Contrasts of Hue in Isluga Textiles, Northern Chile, Penelope Dransart

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The embroidery artisans of the Kashmir Valley: cultural imports and exports from historical and contemporary perspectives., Deborah Emmett

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The Techniques of Samitum. Based on a reconstruction of a silk from the Oseberg burial, Åse Eriksen

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Shipibo-Conibo Textiles 2010-2018: Artists of the Amazon Culturally Engaged, Nancy Gardner Feldman

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Closing the Power Gap Through Internet Technology: The Artisan View, Judy Frater

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A Virgin Martyr in Indigenous Garb? A Curious Case of Andean Ancestry and Memorial Rites Recalled on a Christian Body, Gaby Greenlee

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A Local Motif; Use of kōwhaiwhai patterns in printed textiles, Jane Groufsky

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Milingimbi Artists Partnerships, Louise Hamby

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Threads, twist and fibre: Looking at Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

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Radical Access: Textiles and Museums, Michele Hardy and Joanne Schmidt

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The Deep Origins of Kashmir Shawls, Their Broad Dissemination and Changing Meaning. Or Unraveling the Origins and History of a Unique Cashmere Shawl, Joan Hart

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Tinctorial Cartographies: Plant, Dye & Place, Anna Heywood-Jones

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Shepherds and Shawls: Making Place in the Western Himalayas, Jennifer Hoover

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Dresden Embroidery in Early Kentucky Counterpanes, Laurel Horton

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INDIAN BASKETRY IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists and the National Park Service, Catherine K. Hunter

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Kasb-e-Hunar (Skilled Enclave), Adil Iqbal

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Sprang Bonnets from Late Antique Egypt: Producer Knowledge and Exchange through Experimental Reconstruction, Carol James

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Refashioning Newport: Reuse of Textiles During the Gilded Age, Anna Rose Keefe

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Occam’s Razor: Origins of a Classical Turkish Carpet Design?, Sumru Belger Krody

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Cottage Industry as Social Practice: Sustainability of Handweaving in the Post-Industrialist Era, Maggie Leininger