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2020
Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture, Olimpia Newman and Rebecca Abrams
Scandal and Imprisonment: Gold Spinners of 17th Century England, Tricia Wilson Nguyen
The Nantucket Looms: Historicism and Modernism in an Island Cottage Industry, Jennifer Nieling
Tameji Ueno: A Living National Treasure of Kyoto Textiles, Keiko Okamoto
The Hidden Story of the Quilted Cover in the Benaki Museum Collection, Sumiyo Okumura
Henna Ritual Clothing in Anatolia from Past to Present: An Evaluation on Bindalli, Ozlen Ozgen, Feryal Soylemezoglu, Zeynep Erdoğan, and Sevinc Arcak
Plants in the Tapestry (Literally), Ann H. Peters and Adriana Soldi S.
Viscacha: luxury, fate and identification in Precolumbian Textiles, Elena Phipps and Caroline Solazzo
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
From Birth to Death. The Silk-Flower Industry in Mexico., Adriana Sanromán Peyron
Of Prophets, Caterpillars, and Silver: Job and the Origin-story of Sericulture in the Early Modern Islamic World, Nader Sayadi
Where Can Objects Take You? The Case of the World War II Japanese Airman's Suit, Madelyn Shaw and Trish FitzSimons
Alnôbakskwak: Native American Women Making Ceremonial Regalia, Vera Longtoe Sheehan
Unseen, unheard, unnamed: The matchless and unsung heroes of the textile art and craft of Rajasthan, Simrita Singh and Anu H. Gupta
Creating the Sensible: Weaving the Colonial Aesthetic at a Colonial Obraje, Maria Smith
Inscription, Iconography, and the Individual: A Late Antique Textile from the Harvard Art Museums in Context, Katherine M. Taronas
A Compared Study of Miao Embroidery and Ancient Chinese Embroidery: The Cultural and Historical Significances, Tomoko Torimaru
Transformative Power of Stitchery: Sashiko from Cold Regions of Japan and Embroidery Work of the Nui Project, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Kenyan Basketry (Ciondo) by Women from Central and Eastern Kenya, Mercy Wanduara
Wool Sells Itself: tracing the movement of Navajo-raised wools, Emily Winter
The State of Traditional Albanian Kilims, their Motifs and Narratives, Alexis Zoto
2018
Abstracts of Papers: Textile Society of America 16th Biennial Symposium
Eliza Calvert Hall, A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets, and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia, Philis Alvic
Schoolgirl Embroideries: Integrating Indigenous Motifs, Materials, and Text, Lynne Anderson
Wrapped in Wool: Coast Salish wool weaving, Vancouver’s public art, and unceded territory, Alison Ariss
Yours, Mine & Ours: Beyond Appropriation, Suzi Ballenger and Charlotte Hamlin
Timberline Textiles: Creating a Sense of Place, Annin Barrett
Italian Bedfellows: Tristan, Solomon & “Bestes”, Kathryn Berenson
Co-creating Craft; Australian Designers meet Artisans in India, Katherine Bissett-Johnson and David Moorhead
Chilean Arpilleras: Writing a Visual Culture, R. Darden Bradshaw
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
Reawakening Chahta Nan Tvnna (Choctaw Textiles), Jennifer Byram
Common Sense & Pin Money: The Material Culture and Legacy of Lula Annie Butler 1909-2009, Robin Michel Caudell
Balancing local tradition and global influences: Design and business education for traditional artisans in Kachchh, India, Ruth Clifford
The Tent-Dweller: Visual Markers of Migration in Art, Sara Clugage
Whitework: The Cloth and Call to Action, Sonja Dahl
Fish in the desert – North Africa’s textile tradition between indigenous identity and exogenous shifts in meaning, Silvia Dolz
Mind’s Eye and Embodied Weaving: Simultaneous Contrasts of Hue in Isluga Textiles, Northern Chile, Penelope Dransart
The embroidery artisans of the Kashmir Valley: cultural imports and exports from historical and contemporary perspectives., Deborah Emmett
The Techniques of Samitum. Based on a reconstruction of a silk from the Oseberg burial, Åse Eriksen
Shipibo-Conibo Textiles 2010-2018: Artists of the Amazon Culturally Engaged, Nancy Gardner Feldman
Closing the Power Gap Through Internet Technology: The Artisan View, Judy Frater
A Virgin Martyr in Indigenous Garb? A Curious Case of Andean Ancestry and Memorial Rites Recalled on a Christian Body, Gaby Greenlee
A Local Motif; Use of kōwhaiwhai patterns in printed textiles, Jane Groufsky
Milingimbi Artists Partnerships, Louise Hamby
Threads, twist and fibre: Looking at Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa
Radical Access: Textiles and Museums, Michele Hardy and Joanne Schmidt
Tinctorial Cartographies: Plant, Dye & Place, Anna Heywood-Jones
Shepherds and Shawls: Making Place in the Western Himalayas, Jennifer Hoover
Dresden Embroidery in Early Kentucky Counterpanes, Laurel Horton
INDIAN BASKETRY IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists and the National Park Service, Catherine K. Hunter
Kasb-e-Hunar (Skilled Enclave), Adil Iqbal
Sprang Bonnets from Late Antique Egypt: Producer Knowledge and Exchange through Experimental Reconstruction, Carol James
Refashioning Newport: Reuse of Textiles During the Gilded Age, Anna Rose Keefe
Occam’s Razor: Origins of a Classical Turkish Carpet Design?, Sumru Belger Krody
Cottage Industry as Social Practice: Sustainability of Handweaving in the Post-Industrialist Era, Maggie Leininger
Embroidering Paradise: Suzanis As a Place of Creative Agency and Acculturation for Uzbek Women in 19th Century Bukhara, Shannon Ludington
Ancient, Indigenous and Iconic Textile Motifs in Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance and Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde
Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile in Chiapas Mexico, Addison Nace
Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile in Chiapas, Mexico [poster], Addison Nace
The Modern Development of Kyoto Textiles for the Kimono, Keiko Okamoto
Silk Velvets Identified as Byzantine: Were warp-looped silk pile velvets woven under the Byzantine Empire?, Sumiyo Okumura
Local Wear: A Chat about Textiles & the Body, Emily J. Pascoe
Rahul Jain’s Reimagined Velvet Drawloom, Barbara Setsu Pickett
Ties That Bind: Finding Meaning in the Making of Sacred Textiles, Janet Pollock
Place-based Textiles in Post WWII Poland, Jane Przybysz
The Rayed Head and Stepped Platform: A Core Symbol of the Southern Andean Iconographic Series, Nancy B. Rosoff
Containing Tradition, Embracing Change: Weaving Together Plant Materials in Northern Latin America, Kathryn Rousso
Along a Continuum: Spirally-woven Beadwork of the Tlingit, Wasco, and Pit River Peoples, Alice Scherer
The Untold Story of Inuit Printed Fabrics from Kinngait Studios, Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada, Roxane Shaughnessy and Anna Richard
The Fabric of War: Wool and Local Land Wars in a Global Context, Madelyn Shaw and Trish FitzSimons
Nd’awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’elasawawôganôl: “We Wear the Clothing of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan
Other People’s Clothes: The Second-Hand Clothes Dealer and the Western Art Collector in early Twentieth-Century China, Rachel Silberstein
Living Organisms for Living Spaces: Shifting the function of material, Juliana Silva Diaz
The Radical Fiber Art Practices of The Yarn Mission: A Case Study, Lila Stone
Sanquhar Gloves: An Exemplification of Deep Local to Pan Global?, Angharad Thomas
The Wagga Quilt in history and literature, Diana Mary Eva Thomas
Warp and weft twining, and tablet weaving around the Pacific, Tomoko Torimaru, Kathryn Rousso, Laura Filloy Nadal, and Alejandro de Ávila B
The Lévite Dress: Untangling the Cultural Influences of Eighteenth-Century French Fashion, Kendra Van Cleave
Tapestry Crochet in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East: Tradition and Innovation, Carol Ventura
Looking at the Past and Current Status of Kenya’s clothing and textiles, Mercy V.W. Wanduara
Mashru Redux: From the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad to a Loom in the Great Plains, Wendy R. Weiss
Manipulating the Threads of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler
Threading together politics and poetics in Cecilia Vicuña’s fiber art, Jacqueline Witkowski
Batik of Java: Global Inspiration, Maria Wronska-Friend
The Global Influence of China and Europe on Local Japanese Tapestries Mainly from the 19th through Early 20th Centuries, Masako Yoshida
Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress, C. Zimmerman
2016
Author Guidelines: Biennial Symposium 2016 Proceedings
Transnational Influences on Louisiana Samplers: Traditions, Teachers, Techniques, and Text, Lynne Anderson
Bombay to Bauhaus: Design Influences in Churchill Weavers Textiles from 1922-1949, Sarah Stopenhagen Broomfield
Growing a Dye Garden, Donna Brown
Field to Bag, Bag to Field: Feedbag Production and Distribution in Rural America, Heather R. Buechler