GENERAL
INFORMATIONS ABOUT TEXTILES:
- Creativa
2006: germany, information: http://www.creativa.info
- Friedrichshafen: 23 until 26 February 2006 ,
- Dortmund, Westfalenhalle: 22 until 26
March 2006
- "Antique
Textile Fair" held by the British
Textile Society at Manchester's Armitage Centre,
Mosely Road, Fallowfield, M14 6HE, on 5th
March 2006
- Handarbeit
& Hobby: Cologne, Germany, www.handarbeit-hobby.de - 31 March
until 2 April 2006
- TEXTILE ART
BERLIN 2006: www.textile-art-berlin.de, 17 and 18
June 2006
Contest
To commemorate the 60th
anniversary of ICOM, the Secretariat and
AVICOM international committee are launching a
contest for the production of a captivating
video clip
that encapsulates ICOM's mission, values, and
activities.The video clip is to be no longer than two
minutes and may make use of several visual and sound
techniques.
The winning submission will receive a variety of
accolades and international exposure.
Details and contest regulations can be found on the
ICOM http://icom.museum/video.html and AVICOM Web sites http://avicom.icom.museum
The contest closes May 10, 2006, so don't
delay!
Study Trip
- The Textile
Museum Washington plans a trip to
Finland, Sweden and Tallinn (Estland)
with Desiree Koslin, e-mail: tpi@travelplansintil.com
Study Trip to
China, Information: Rita Trefois, Lijnmolenstr.
52, B-9040 Gent; tel: +32-9/2291849; e-mail: rita.trefois@pandora.be
Batik artist and ETN member Rita Trefois
from Belgium will lead a tour to China in
September 2006. This tour will concentrate on
Guizhou province but will also visit Beijing, the
capital of China and Guiliu, famed for the Li
River. The emphasis will be on visiting the
villages of the Miao and Dong ethnic minorities
and studying their festival costumes.
Lectures
- "Mode Thema
Mode": lectures about historic dress and
fashion at Kulturforum, in Berlin
- 4th MAK
Academy at Museum für Angewandte Kunst
in Vienna, October 2005 until March 2006. makakademie@MAK.at
Lecture Saturday 18th of March: "Gewebt und
gedruckt" - Textilien und Katagami", by
Angela Völker and Brigitte Moser
VOCABULARY
Swedish terms could be
added with the help of Mari-Louise Franzen.
Thank you very much Mari-Louise.
Please remember: the discussion about terms is
open and comments can be added at any time. All you
have to do is to write an e-mail to me. And together
with your name your remark will be added below the
design of the stitch.
Please, to make things easier, give me also the
number of the stitch (on the left upper corner of the
entry).
M E E T I N G S
- Kontextilien 2 -
Textilien im Kontext, Museum
Aktiv - Interaktive Ausstellungselemente
Werkstattgespräch des Museums "Tuch +
Technik"
in der Stadthalle Neumünster, 21.
März 2006
- Uniform in
Motion, symposium in Berlin, Museum of
European Cultures, Lansstr. 4, D-14195, 2 to 4
March 2006, http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/uniform
http://141.2.86.23/tagung/index.html
- Textile
Collections and Creativity, conference
organised by the British North West Textile Forum
at the Whiteworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Oxford
Road, M15 6ER, on 4th March 2006, Details: Brenda King,
e-mail: bm.king@btinternet.com
- Textiles and
Text, organised by AHRC Research Centre
for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies at
the Textile Conservation Centre, University of
Southampton, address: Park Avenue, Winchester,
Hampshire, SO23 8DL, UK, e-mail C.G.Bennett@soton.ac.uk http://www.costumesociety.org.uk/newstuff/News/textilesandtext.html on 11 to 13
July 2006
- "Narratives
and Conservations", 10th Symposium
of the Textile Society of America (TSA), 11 until
14 October 2006,
Toronto Canada. Contact: Frances Dorsay, Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design, 5163 Duke
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3J6
(call for paper's deadline was already on 1
December 2005)
- "Uniforms:
yesterday, today and tomorrow", The
Royal Military Museum in Brussels (Belgium) will
host the next ICOMAM symposium,
with a meet and greet on October 17 and a post
symposium activity on October 21, the event
is scheduled for October 18 - 20, 2006
Please return
registration form by 15 December 2005 to symposium2006@klm-mra.be
- "Reinventions:
Artists and Tapestry", 2nd
Symposium of the Victoria Tapestry Workshop,
Melbourne, Australia, in 2008, Contact: Di Macleod,
e-mail: dmacleod@victapestry.com.au
I N S T I T U T I
O N S :
useful links:
- on Weaving and Related Topics
On-Line Digital Archive of Documents, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
Textile Centres:
- Constance Howard Resource and Research
Centre in Textiles.
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/index.html
The Constance Howard
Resource and Research Centre in Textiles is
housed in the basement of the elaborate late
Victorian Old Town Hall building in New Cross
high street:
Goldsmiths College, University of London,
New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
Telephone +44 (0)20 7919 7171
- The Antonio Ratti Textile Center,
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028-0198
see: Cieta Embroidery group Newsletter No
8 / July 1998/ 7
- TENEN - The Danish
Society of Textile History
information sent by Lone de Hemmer Egeberg,
Gaerdet 12, DK - 3460 Birkerod,
fax +45 45821557
- HV
Djurgardslatten 82-84, SE - 115
21 Stockholm
Tel 08-545 68 650 - Fax 08 545 68 654 - www.hv-atelje.com - www.hv-skola.com
HV - a "House of Textiles" maintaining
traditional skills while pioneering new
developments in textile art. The complex is a
powerful force for arts and crafts of the highest
quality.
- Centro Studi Tessuti e Moda
Civica Galleria di Palazzo Bianco, via
Garibaldi 11, Genova, Italy
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