Reiko Sudo at the Musée Guimet in Paris
Through the summer of 2014 the installation “Koi Current” is on show (as a part of the exhibition “Clemenceau, le Tigre de l´Asie from 12 March to 16 June, 2014) at the Musée national des... Read more
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The Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (MAK) in Vienna reopens its Permanent Carpet Collection on 8 April 2014
A selection of over 30 individual objects is to present an impressive survey of the MAK’s holdings of distinctive, high-quality carpets with an emphasis on the unique examples of 16th and 17th-century Persian and Mamluk... Read more
The Database Project ´Silk Memory`in St. Gallen
In 2012 – with financial support by the Zurich Silk Association (ZSIG) – the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art had initiated the Silk Memory project at the Textile Museum St. Gallen with the... Read more
A New Web-Based Costume Workbook
Experienced members of the Costume Committee create „Clothes tell stories“: the Costume Workbook, an on-line catalog of written and visual ideas of how to show and use historical and contemporary costume in museums. The target... Read more
A ´Jacquard`Loom 60 Years before Jacquard´s ´Invention`
In general the following information is given: “1805 Patent on pattern weaving machine with punched cards by Joseph-Marie Charles Jacquard”. Jacquard may have been the first inventor able to file for a patent, yet the... Read more
The V&A Clothworkers Centre has Opened
This Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion at Blythe House in west London, offering unprecedented access to the museum’s textiles, receives about 800 requests for access from researchers a year. Visits... Read more
Plant Fibre Processing 77,000 Years Ago
We have reported in Textile Forum magazine 1/2010 about early traces of fibre processing over 30,000 years ago, found in the Dzudzuana cave in Georgia. Now we heard that already in 2010 important archaeological findings... Read more