From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
First featured by us when it began in Wolfsburg last autumn, this exhibition is currently on view at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart until 22nd June 2014. Although I take a critical view of the “abuse” of... Read more
Textile art has always been a pariah of the art world. It was not ” spiritual ” enough , a charged field of employment for women, at most craft, loaded with too much material values and the sublime... Read more
Over the past five years textiles have increasingly featured in art exhibitions where curators and art scholars have described them from a rather one-dimensional perspective, regarding them as factors influencing the development of art, as... Read more
The European Textile Network (ETN), set up at the opening of the borders to Eastern Europe in 1989/90, had members from former East-European countries at a very early date. Its 5th conference in 1995 took... Read more
Art modernism is getting more and more fashionable. Now the textile arts shall suddenly be the leader for fashionable change in fine art. It started still slowly with Art Nouveau, spreading between 1896 and 1913,... Read more
COMMENTS OF A FINNISH PAINTER AND ART CRITIC “While modernism has tried to set itself apart from everything else, it has also acted as a gluttonous beast. Whenever material from outside the lofty high-culture sphere... Read more
Textile Forum is not an art blog as such. We are interested in textiles as an ancient form of human creation, similar to architecture, agriculture, literature (text), music (producing sound) or dance (movement). Art, in... Read more