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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2008

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The Quilt Index: Communicating Stories in the Stitches, Mary Worrall, Marsha MacDowell, and Justine Richardson

2006

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About Textile Society of America

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About the Authors

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Abstracts

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Author Biographies

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Copyright and Disclaimer

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Table of Contents

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Talking about Textiles: The Making of The Textile Museum Thesaurus, Cecilia Gunzburger Anderson

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Changing Face of Ottoman Imperial Image: Carpets of Dolmabahce Palace, Turkiye, Elvan Anmac and Filiz Adigüzel Toprak

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Sashiko Workshop: Experiential Geometry, Lucy Arai

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The World of Words: A Major Contribution from Linguistics to the World of Textile Making Off-Loom, Michelle Beauvais

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Brides and Grooms: Embroidery of the Epirus Region, Sumru Belger Krody

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Sustainability of Handwoven Carpets in Turkey: The Context of the Weaver, Kimberly Berman and Charlotte Jirousek

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Designing for Future Textiles – Challenges of Hybrid Practices, Zane Berzina

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Wandering Minstrels – The Tale of the Phad, Vandana Bhandari

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Carol Bier

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Notes on Editing, Carol Bier and Ann Svenson Perlman

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Nationalism: Pubic Voices, Private Lives, Jerry Bleem

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High Style and Cleanliness: Oriental Rugs in Toronto Homes 1880 - 1940, Neil Brochu

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Weaving Social Change: Berea College Fireside Industries and Reform in Appalachia, Sarah Stopenhagen Broomfield

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Textiles from the Canadian Front, J. Penney Burton

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An Ethnographic Interpretation of the Smoke Rising and Smoke Descending Ceremonial Attire of the Sa'dan Malimbong Toraja, Maria Christou

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Here… is the place where you are, Leah Decter

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Mathematical Approaches in Quilt Design, Gerda de Vries

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Introduction, Frances Dorsey and Nataley Nagy

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Sustainability of Handwoven Carpets in Turkey: Problems and Solution Proposals in Relation to Standards and Market Issues, Zeynep Erdoğan and Özlen Özgen

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“Tie it on tight, girls!” Speaking and Acting through Cloth in Southern Madagascar, Sarah Fee

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Reading Prisoner Uniforms: The Concentration Camp Prisoner Uniform as a Primary Source for Historical Research, Lizou Fenyvesi

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The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Modern Art and the Kimono, Valerie Foley

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Elemental Pathways in Fiber Structures: Approaching Andean Symmetry Patterns through an Ancient Technology, Mary Frame

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The Question of Symmetry in Andean Textiles, Mary Frame

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Weaving Independence from a Distant Cottage Industry, Fenella G. France

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Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas - Some Next Steps, Patricia Marks Greenfield

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Historical Memory and Empathy in Studio Art Classroom, Karen Hampton

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Swept under the Carpet: Subtle Tales from the Back Room, Michele Hardy

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Colorful Messages: The Revival of Natural Dyes in Traditional Cuzco Textiles, Andrea M. Heckman

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Speaking When No One Else Can: Textiles and Censorship, Jessica Hemmings

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Contemporary Hemp Weaving in Korea, Min-Sun Hwang

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Text & Textiles: New Writings from Spam Tales, Janis Jefferies

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Narratives among the Mola Blouses of the Kuna: A Blending of the Old and New Worlds, Teena Jennings-Rentenaar

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Construction of Social Relationships through Clothes: Gender, Caste, and Inter-religious Relationships in Kutch, India, Miwa Kanetani

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The Troyes Mémoires: A Translation of a Script for a Late Medieval Choir Tapestry, Tina Kane

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The Narrative Scheme of a Bengal Colcha Dating from the Early 17th Century Commissioned by the Portuguese, Barbara Karl

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Nature Fancywork: Nineteenth Century Women Tell Stories about the Natural World, Andrea Kolasinski Marcinkus

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Peacocks in the Sands of Palm Beach: The Vogue of Men’s Beach Robes, Diane Maglio

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Nasca Needlework and Paracas Procession, Lois Martin

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The Swedish Presence in 20th-Century American Weaving, Marion T. Marzolf

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The History and the Present of a Traditional Textile of Okinawa, Japan A Narrative of the People in Miyako Island and Miyako-jofu Textile, Yuka Matsumoto

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Cartography, Cloth and the Embroidered Tale, Bettina Matzkuhn

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Constructing Garments, Constructing Identities: Home Sewers and Homemade Clothing in 1950s/60s Alberta, Marcia McLean

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Messages from the Past: An Unbroken Inca Weaving Tradition in Northern Peru, Lynn A. Meisch

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Confessions of a Red Thread Bandit Queen: Ten Years of Fieldwork with Narrative Embroidery, Skye Morrison

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Stories Underfoot: Reconstructing a Filipino American Identity from a Patchwork Rug, Rachel Morris

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Textile Narratives in Book Form, Robin E. Muller

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Investigation of a Colonial Latin American Textile, Elena Phipps and Lucy Commoner

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Design Sources: The Edges of Fiber Geometry, Barbara Setsu Pickett

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A Collaboration through Academia into Industry, Vita Plume

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Tracing the Temporary Thread: Decorative and Functional Devoré Textiles of the Early Twentieth Century, Andie Robertson

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A Textile Narrative Through the Eye of a Camera/Through the Eye of a Needle, Jennifer E. Salahub

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Suellen Glashausser: Books as Revelation, Pamela Scheinman

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Textiles and the Body: The Geometry of Clothing, Madelyn Shaw

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Sustainability of Handwoven Carpets in Turkey: The Importance of Technical Distinctions Between Regional Carpet Styles, Feryal Söylemezoğlu and Sema Taği

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Unraveling the Story: Art Holmes’ War Correspondent Uniform, Courtney Stewart

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Preserving Provenance: Collaborative Conversation with a Textile Collector, Susan M. Strawn, Mary A. Littrell, and Linda Carlson

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The Documentary Value of Repairs to the Hwarot, the Korean Bridal Robe, Kisook Suh

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Symbolic Embellishment of Ritual Textiles Used in Native American Burial Mounds, Harriet J. Taylor and Stephen A. Taylor

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When This You See Remember Me: Sampler Making as a Material Practice of Identity and Selfhood, Mary Lou Trinkwon

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Cotton to Cloth: An Indian Epic, Uzramma

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The Never-Ending Possibility of Textile Art Education, Jan-Ru Wan

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La Mode à l’Écossaise: Textile of Diplomacy, Seta K. Wehbé

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Difficult Subjects, Wendy Weiss

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Delineating Women’s Historical Lives through Textiles: A Latvian Knitter’s Narrative of Memory, Eileen Wheeler

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White Snake, Black Snake Folk Narrative Meets Master Narrative in Qing Dynasty Sichuanese Cross-stitch Medallions, Cory Willmott

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Weaving Messages Today: Three Decades of Belts in Taquile Island, Peru (1976-2006), Elayne Zorn

2004

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About Textile Society of America

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Abstracts of Papers

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Author Biographies

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Copyright Statement

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Editor's Introduction Notes on Editing Acknowledgments

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Symposium Program- Contents

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We Pieced Together Cloth, We Pieced Together Culture: Reflections on Tongan Women’s Textile-making in Oakland, Ping-Ann Addo

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Symbolic Defiance: Questions of Nationalism and Tradition in Middle Eastern Textiles, Jeni Allenby

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Churchill Weavers 80 Years of American Handweaving, Philis Alvic

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West Anatolian Carpet Designs: The Effect of Carpet Trade between Ottoman Empire and Great Britain, Elvan Anmac and Filiz Adigüzel Toprak

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California and the Fiber Art Revolution, Suzanne Baizerman

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The Tale of the Two-Tailed Mermaid A Case Study in the Origins of the Cretan Embroidery Style, Sumru Belger Krody

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Shifting Sands: Costume in Rajasthan, Vandana Bhandari

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Pattern Power: Textiles and the Transmission of Knowledge, Carol Bier

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The Ubiquitous T-Shirt and Fashionable "Islamic Dress" Cultural Authentication in Turkey, Marlene R. Breu

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Interpreting Social Change and Changing Production Through Examinations of Textiles of Xam Nuea and Surin, Charles Carroll

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The Fate of the Xam Nuea Healing Cloths, Patricia Cheesman

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Dragon Covers – Mysterious Aberrations of the Li, Lee J. Chinalai

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Sa’dan Toraja Supplementary Weft Weaving An Ethnographic Interpretation of Acculturation and Assimilation of Loom Technology and Weaving Techniques, Maria Christou

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Protest to Persuasion: Chinese Textiles as Political Tools in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Diana Collins

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Disconnecting the Tais: Responses to Trade, Training and Tourism, Mary F. Connors

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A Ping-Pong Example of Cultural Authentication and Kalabari Cut-Thread Cloth, Joanne B. Eicher

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Transformative Prospects: Textile Structure and the Social Organization of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean Production, Blenda Femenías

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Textile Exchange and Cultural and Gendered Cross-Dressing at Palmyra, Syria (100 BC—AD 272), Cynthia Finlayson

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Something Borrowed, Something Red –Textiles in Colonial and Soviet Central Asia, Kate Fitz- Gibbon

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The Evolution of Yuzen-dyeing Techniques and Designs after the Meiji Restoration, Yuko Fukatsu-Fukuoka