Category: Textiles
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The official studio opening
The studio is opening in Greymouth/ Māwhera on the 31st October. The event will be celebrated at the Regent Theatre from six pm where there will be drinks and snacks. The studio itself will be open from 5:30 pm and there will be some singing and a short welcoming speech. Space is limiting the numbers…
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Reader contributions
There are four textile-related exhibitions on in Chicago in the USA at the moment. Jacqueline Surdell is showing at Secrist | Beach, Kiah Celeste at Document, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago has On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival on show until March next year.
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Bulawayo
A trip to Bulawayo in September 2025
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Sónia Aniceto
The work of Sónia Aniceto, a Portuguese artist who trained in painting and tapestry, took a turn when she worked in an opera house on sets. The experience of working on a large scale with textiles at La Monnaie in Belgium encouraged the artist to explore mixing thread and paint. The result… delicate, beautiful, unsettling…
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The Philosophy of Clothes
A new book from Kate Moran in a Cambridge University Press series looks at clothing from both personal and philosophical angles. Clothes carry meaning as well as being practical. We choose what to wear for meetings, parties, conversations… they make us feel good, attractive, or defend our bodily space. In this book, the author, herself…
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Textile Curator
The world of contemporary textile art practice is the subject of the Textile Curator website. Helen Adams has set out to teach the world about textile art and artists in blog posts, an artist directory and resources through the site. It is a British-based website with an international outlook and it may be useful to…
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Why do clothes shrink?
We’ve all experienced that sinking feeling upon opening the washing machine door to find shrunken outfits. Clothes shrink in the wash because of the fibres they are made from. But what is it that actually happens, and can something be done about it? Here is an article about just that. Good luck!
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Textile Talk
Every Wednesday a presentation or panel discussion is held by SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates in the USA. If you have an hour to spare and want to get a fix, head on over to the website and browse more than 250 Textile Talks using the online index. Fascinating and intriguing, not to mention lots…
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Glass… as a textile?
Glass, that most contradictory of materials, has been used as a textile. Mid-century design in Europe and America took advantage of glass fibre and its unique qualities. The fabrics made from glass fibres are shiny and slippery, echoing the trend then for clean lines and crisp looks in fashion and interiors. A pair of fibreglass…
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A surprise from the collection
This week conserving and cataloguing the textile collection started in the studio. Over the past few months a friend has been working to research the collection items and that has been a Very Useful Thing. That research has been added to the website under the “Textile collection” link and it is filling up nicely. Now…