Textile Society of America

Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings





2024: 18th Biennial; Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles
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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Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles: Textile Society of America 2024 Symposium--Full Program with Abstracts

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Five Quilts as Claims about Collage, Teaching, Learning & Being Together, Tim Abel

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Felt: Leaning into the Chaotic, Fafnir Adamites

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Strands of Repair: Textile Treasures as Sustainable Pathways to Reconnect with the Lost Past, Sareekah Agarwaal and Ruby Kashyap Sood

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Negro Cloth: African American Textile Design History, Karen Baker

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Inhabiting Numbers: Weaving, Polyphony, and Embodied Mathematics, Kristine Barrett

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Handwoven Drawings, Lynn Bennett Carpenter

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Chiapas Maya Project - Weaving Community, Lori Benson and Helena Rojas Lopez

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Gny rary tsihy tsy enganay (‘We’re not leaving the mat weaving’): Transitions of Craft Practice in Southeast Madagascar, Sarah Emily Brown

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One Thread at a Time: The Role of Textile Crafts on Well-being in Marginalized Communities, Michelle Burton, Bianka Hausknecht, Ja-Young Hwang, Kim Hahn, and Jihyun Kim-Vick

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Plying Together Knowledges: Revitalization of Indigenous Textile Knowledge through Language, Jennifer Byram and Eveline Battiest Steele

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Weaving Community: The Manual Loom as Metaphor for Rupture and Repair, Farrah Cato and Prerana Choudhury

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Incursive Heritage: Socio-Digital Mediations of Mediterranean, Maria Ida De Ioanni

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Burning Fear, Amy Dorie

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The Touch and Breath of Cloth: Folding and Unfolding Bedsheets with María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Theresa Downing

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A Contribution to the Preservation and Revival of the Cabo Verdean pano d’obra Textiles, Maggy Fragoso

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Textile Ways of Thinking as a Trauma-informed Design Tool to Research and Understand Communities, Smrti Ganesan and Nishanth Srikanth

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Materializing Memory Through Quilted Cod: “Making Fish” as Memorial, Gina Granter

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Threads of Tradition: Unraveling the Shifting Semiotics of Phulkari Embroidery from Past to Present, Gurvinder Kaur Gundev and Anjali Karolia

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Draped in History: Unveiling Vijayanagar's Social Tapestry through Lepakshi Portrayals, Ashima Gupta, Dimple Bahl, and Vandana Bhandari

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Queen Victoria, the Sultan and the Adventurer: Weaving Strands of the History of the Kashmir Shawl, Joan Hart

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Pieces of Eight: Diagonal Color Stripes and Beyond, Marilyn Emerson Holtzer

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Caring Cloth Praxis: Ethics of Loss, Practices of Remembering, Suzanna James

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‘Within the reach of everyone’: Tracing the Global Strands of Herrman, Sternbach & Co.’s 1880s Imitation Furs, Laura Johnson

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“Muy curiosa y muy diestra”: Bobbin Lace Making in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Elena Kanagy-Loux

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Dung Dkar Cloak: Exploring Soft Interfaces for Sonic Interactions, Judit Eszter Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre

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23 Extinct Redwork Quilt Project: Repairing Relationships with Our More-Than-Human Kin, Stitch by Stich, Heather Kerley

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Henri de Châtillon (1906-1972): A French Millimar in Mexico City, Celine Khawam

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Textiles, Memory, and Cultural Crossroads: A Personal Journey Through Material Practice, Ai Kijima

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Stitches of Sustainability: Empowering Women and Preserving Culture through Pakko Embroidery, Rajesh Kumar, Dharmendra Bana, and Deepali Bhatnagar

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Textile Resource Center: On Generosity & Growth of the Collection, Danielle Lasker

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Tactility and Historicity in Contemporary Textile Art: The Greek Example, Markia Liapi

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“What was before”: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950–1963, Rebecca McNamara

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Lambani Textiles: Oscillating between the Past and the Present, Beena Santosh Modathi and Anjali Karolia

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Copyright for Imitations: Looking at the Registered Design Book of William Stirling & Sons, Isabel Monseau

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Public Patriotism, Silent Dissent: Women and the Making of Senninbari in Wartime Japan, Mariko Nagai

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Textile as Cultural Technology: The Evolution of Robert Rauschenberg’s Jammers, 1975–6, Katya Oicherman

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Bridging Traditions and Innovations in Japanese Kimono Fashion -After WWII to the Present-, Keiko Okamoto

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Effect of Project Based Learning on Achievement in Handwork among Pupils in Lekki Schools, Lagos State, Elizabeth Okeyele-Olatunji

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Woven Life Systems, Melanie Olde

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Perception and Prospects of Art of Clothing Maintenance as a Sustainable Fashion, Boiso Maria Owodiong-Idemeko, Adetona Sekinat Ajoke, and Udom Owodiong

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MultiWeave–Ambitions and Inspirations, Kadi Pajupuu and Matthias-Jakob Sildnik

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The Material Life of a Jiangyi (Taoist Priest Vestment) 18th c. to the Present, Lucinda Pelton

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Weaving “National Spirit”: Jacquard-Woven Silk Images in the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937), Brielle Pizzala

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The Stamina of Things: Jean Toury's Nightshirt, Janet Pollock

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The Petticoat: Details of a Forgotten Garment in Mexico City (1900–1910), Nallely Rangel Vázquez

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Speculative Futures with Southern California Fibershed, Lesley Roberts

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Inconclusive Objects: Sample Making as Inquiry-driven Practice, Etta Sandry

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Repatriation and Conservation, Sandra Sardjono, Kristal Hale, Christopher Buckley, Saiful Bakhri, and Absari Hanifah

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Wild Silk: Repairing and Healing our Planet and Social Fabric, Karen Selk

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Dreams Intertwined in Strands of Silver and Gold: Hidden Stories of Home-based Women Zardozi Artisans of Bhopal, India, Meeta Siddhu and Anjali Karolia

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Weaving Rituals for Resistance: Queering the Tallit, Sam Simons

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LOST & LOOTED - The Fate of Bejeweled Textiles and Gemstone Carpets, Anou Lunia Singhvi

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Weaving Transformations: Integrating the TC2 Loom in Higher Education Textile Programs, Anna Stuffelbeam, Kate Nartker, and Janie Woodbridge

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A Study of “Kurar”: Its Historical and Cultural Significance to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Tomoko Torimaru

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Solidarity Dividend with US Wool and Community Engagement to Address Socioeconomic Inequities, Helen X. Trejo and Angela Becerril

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Environmental Metrics in Action: Exploring U.S. Superfund Sites Affiliated with the Fashion Industry, Nidia K. Trejo

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Experimentation on Manual Paper Making Using Mango Seed Fibers, Mercy Wanduara

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Woven Symphony: Exploring the Parallels Between Weaving and Music, Qianwen Yu

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Lavenz, Valenz, Levenxë, Lavexha, Lavenzka: Woven Felted Blankets from the Korçë Region in Southeastern Albania, Alexis Zoto

2020

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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

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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