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The Poetics of Textiles — Tim McLaughlin
Like all great arts, textiles recreate our visiton of the world. We hold them up as exemplars of skill, ingenuity, creativity, and ambition. Textiles are poetic metaphors woven fro...
Between Science and Art — Ellis & Boutrup
Joy Boutrup is a textile engineer, chemist, and historian from Denmark. Catharine Ellis is a textile artist from North Carolina who specializes in combining weaving and dyeing. The...
Invitation to the Divine — Amy Putansu
In this lecture Amy Putansu will discuss how notions of spirituality have influenced her own hand-woven artwork. Inspired by Buddhism, Zen design precepts, and the minimalist art mo...
The Art of Ajrakh — Jabbar & Adam Khatri
Traditional ajrakh block printing is one of the most iconic crafts to survive into the twenty-first century. But ajrahk, as practiced by the Khatris of the Kachchh Desert, has done...
Knitted Felt Works - Aya Matsunaga
Aya Matsunaga is a Japanese textile artist who tempered her formal studies by moving to Nottingham, England and embracing the UK fibre art scene of the 1990s....
Field Notes in the Colour Garden pt 2 — Micahel Garcia
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often give new insights into dye procedures and m...
Field Notes in the Colour Garden pt 1 — Michel Garcia
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often give new insights into dye procedures and m...
The Art of Storypainting - Susan Shie
For over thirty years Susan Shie has been producing art on cloth that mixes the personal and the political. Her distinct method of working combines narrative, drawing, and writing ...
Stone Diaries and Quilted Lines — Barbara Todd
On October 5, 2015, Barbara Todd delivered her lecture, "Stone Drawings and Quilted Lines" or "One Day Tells Its Tale To Another." to a full house at the Maiwa School of Textiles....
Deeper Than Indigo - Jenny Balfour Paul
Jenny Balfour Paul tells her story of tracing the life of unknown explorer Thomas Machell. Indigo planter, writer, illustrator, and adventurer....
The Working Traveller 2009 Part 4
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alone to follow a path as unknown to themsel...
The Working Traveller 2009 Part 3
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alone to follow a path as unknown to themsel...
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