Artist textiles – Picasso to Warhol
This exhibition – on show from 31st January till 17 May 2014 at the London Fashion and Textile Museum – is benefiting from the current fashionable trend of art curators to search for textiles in... Read more
Artists`Textiles 1940 – 1976
Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain & Annamarie Stapleton; Antique Collectors ‘Club Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk/UK, 2013, ISBN 978-1-85149-629-7; 303 pages, many colour- and black & white illustrations, English text. In its understanding of textile design this is... Read more
Pae White – Orllegro
From 9 October,2013 to 12 October,2014 the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) is showing this exhibition of the Los Angeles based artist Pae White .In her work she develops new relationships between fine and... Read more
Visual Arts
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
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