• By 30 November 2009 the documentation must be mailed: PREMIO VALCELLINA - VALCELLINA AWARD 2009
• 1 October until 30 November 2009 7^th international Kaunas biennial TEXTILE 09
  M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art – M. Žilinskas Art Gallery and Kaunas Picture Gallery
   'Kaunas Biennial is best known for presenting Lithuania’s international festival of contemporary art in textiles. TEXTILE 09 involves artists working with others to create opportunities for direct experience and live examination of art production. The main part of the biennial consists of 30 projects’ residency programme LIVE EXAMINATION which will be realised by 60 artists from 20 countries.' Programme and information: www.biennial.lt
  For further information, please contact:
  Jurga Knyviene, Communication Co-ordinator - kaunobienale@gmail.com +37061871731
• upcoming meetings of ICOM Costume Committee:
  - 2010: ICOM Triennial, Shanghai, China, November 7-13 2010
  http://dept.kent.edu/museum/link/icom.html
• October 2009, London: Great Britain: Annual General Meeting of the Medieval Dress and Textile Society, Provisional topics for 2009: www.medats.org.uk
  - October 2009: Aspects of Jewellery and Clothing
  Provisional topics for 2010:
  - Reconstruction - Dyes - Tapestries: Design and production - Dress and Textiles for Coronations.
• 23 until 25. Oktober 2007, Volkmann meeting 2009 Berlin, Hängende Gärten und Leuchtende Sterne, Stickereien aus den Oasenstädten Mittel- und Zentralasiens, Museum für Islamische Kunst-Mschatta-Saal, Am Kupfergraben 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte, Germany
• 31 October 2009 Hand & Lock Embroidery Conference, at Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK. Annual embroidery design competition to promote hand embroidery. e-mail: inquiries@handembroidery.com http://www.handembroidery.com/
• October 2009 The Maiwa Textile Symposium, organised by Charllotte Kwon, Vancouver, Canada. 14 lectures are planned. Registration opens 22nd June 2009. 38 workshops running from September to November 2009 http://www.maiwa.com/symposium/index.html
• Meetings of ICOM Costume Committee:
  - 2009: Lyon France, 4 - 9 October 2009. Host: Bernard Berthod. Themes under consideration: "Costume and Textile Trade" and "Costume and Textile Commerce".
• International Symposium "VENETIAN GROS POINT" . International meeting on Lace, Retournac, Haute-Loire, F-43130, France. Le Textilmuseum of Saint-Gall (Switzerland), the Research and Restauration Centre for archeological textiles ARTEX of Athens (Greece) et the Musée des Manufactures de Dentelles of Retournac (France) are organising an international meeting in Retournac. It will be of interest to Researchers, museum Curators, Collectors, etc. Information: Bruno Ythier, Musée Manufactures Dentelles, 14 Avenue de la gare, F-43130 Retournac. musee@ville-retournac.fr - for more informations see: http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/actualites/2009/news1/news1_09A.html
• October 9 to 10, 2009 "Corpus Kölner Borten" Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln, conference autitorium: Prof Dr. Marita Bombek, Dr. Gudrun Sporbeck, Dr. Thomas Blisniewski, Ariane Koller, e-mail koelnerborten@gmail.com --- http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12126
• until 27 September 2009 Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf, DIAGONALE - centre des arts ed des fibres du Québec, 5455, avenue De Gaspé, espace 203, (CDN) Montreal, Quebec H2T 3B3, Canada - Deadline 30 September 2009 Bleu - textile art competition
• 27 September until 2 October 2009 10th Southern Hemisphere Feltmakers Convergence, Copthorne Hotel in Masterton (Solvay Park), New Seeland
• 30 September to 3 October North-American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC). Conservation of Three-Dimensional Textiles in Québec City, Canada. Information by Claudia Iannuccilli, NATCC, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, USA, http://www.natcc.net
• 24 September until 4 October 2009 World of Wearable Art - WOW, http://www.worldofwearableart.com/
• September 23 - 25, 2009: "IFAI Design Exhibition 2009. Info: San Diego Convention Center
  Address: 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101 USA, Phone Number: 619 525 5000 - http://www.ifaiexpo.com
• 17 September to 20 September 2009 15th European Patchwork Meeting, with exhibitions, courses, trips. Ste Marie-aux-Mines Alsace, France, www.patchwork-europe.com
• 14 until 15 September 2009, Vytautas Magnus University gallery ‘101’. Programme and information: www.biennial.lt
  Nora Landkammer (documenta 12) and Judy Thomas (Liverpool Biennial 08) will be in Kaunas to present their experience of organising education programmes during two different international art events.   As part of their two day visit a public talk will be organised.
  Date: 2009-09-14
  Time: 13.00hrs – 15.00hrs. Venue: Vytautas Magnus University gallery ‚101’
  We think the presentations will be particularly interesting for professionals from the field of museum and gallery education, cultural education, arts/education media, as well as art teachers. Students are particularly welcome.Places are limited and must be booked in advance by emailing kaunobienale@gmail.com
• 4th Biennial Quilt Symposium, University of Nebraska in Lincoln USA has issued a Call for Papers for its 2009 Symposium "The Global Quilt: Cultural Contexts". See website with link to the Call for Papers: http://www.quiltstudy.org, deadline for submissions: 15 August 2008
• 6 July to 29 July 2009 Textile symposium: 25 Years of International Textile Art in Graz, led by Renate Maak, at the Raiffeisenhof Educational Centre, Graz, Austria, Fax: 0316/8050-7151, raiffeisenhof@lk-stmk.at
• 30 July 2009: In case you are interested to attend the COSTUME  COLLOQUIUM II: Dress for Dance (in November 2010), please fill in the intention form you find here within July 30th, 2009.
• 12 July to 16 July 2009 Craft Conference USA. "Making: Past, Present, Future". At the renowned Haystack Mountain School of Craft, USA. Lectures, round-table discussions, workshops. http://www.haystack-mtn.org
• 22 July to 24 July 2009 The 15th ETN Conference in Haslach and including General Assembly will take place Linz/Upper Austria, - http://www.etn-net.org/etn/211e.htm
  Pre-symposium: 21 July 2009, more information: University of Arts, Linz: www.ufg.ac.at - European Textile Network: www.etn-net.org/etn/211e.htm - Textile Culture Haslach:
  Tourismusbuero Haslach, Marktplatz 45, A-4170 Haslach, Austria
  www.textile.kultur.haslach.at - Linz Capital of Culture of Europe: www.linz09.at
• 3 July to 5 July 2009 Le Festival du Lin et de l'Aiguille, Association Alliance et Culture, 2 route de Dieppe, F-76740 Le-Bourg-Dun, France
• 3 July to 5 July 2009 Colours of Linen, exhibition, Mairie du Bourg-Dun, F-76740 Le-Bourg-Dun
• 10 to 30 June, 6th Int. Biennale of Textile Miniatures, organised by the Lithuanian-Artists Association in Vilnius/Lithuania. e-mail info@ldsajunga.lt - application deadline 10 May 2009
• 15 June to 18 June 2009 IWTO congress 2009 - theme: Wool - smart, natural, technical International. Wool Textile Organisation, Rue de l'Industrie 4, B-1000 Brussels; venue: Techtextil, Frankfurt
• June 2009 3rd Triennial of Textile Art, Call for projects, The Cultural Foundation for the Textile Art and the Art Gallery of Szombathely will organise the 3rd Triennial of Textile Art in the Gallery of Szombathely. Theme: presence = being present. A CD should be submitted by post by 5th December 2008.
• 28 to 31 May 2009: SDA Conference 2009 "Off the Grid", Surface Design Association, 4415 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64111, USA, with preconference and postconference workshops, excursions, exhibitions. e-mail: Kathy.dowell@sbcglobal.net - www.surfacedesign.org
• May 2009: London: Great Britain: Annual General Meeting of the Medieval Dress and Textile Society, Provisional topics for 2009:
  - May 2009: Henry VIII: Textiles and Clothing for a Renaissance Monarch. www.medats.org.uk
• 5 June until 7 June 2009: Congress and workshops of "Kunstverein Seide e.V.", at Evangelische Tagungsstätte Wildbad, Tauberweg 42, D-9215412 Rothenburg, Germany, http://www.kunstvereinseide.de/
• 8 May to 10 May 2009 - Italia Invita - 4th Int. Forum of Lace and Embroidery, Fiera di Parma S.p.A., Rossano Bozzi, Via Rizzi 67/a, I-43100 Baganzola (PR) www.italiainvita.it
• 28 April 2009, at 4 pm, Sala Verdi -Teatro della Fortuna, convengno, REDIRE: LA LUCE DI PANDOLFO - studi sulla figura e l'epoca di Pandolfo III Malatesti Museo civico Malatestiano – Fano tel.0721 839098 fax 0721 830040 ,
  e-mail: museomalatestiano@libero.it www.comune.fano.ps.it/cultura
• 1st of April 2009 opening of the 5th International Biennial of Textile Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Exhibits, Tours, Lectures, Info: e-mail: cwalton@wta-online.org - internet: http://www.wta-online.org
• 2 April to 3 April 2009, IFAI Announces Advanced Textiles 09, Industrial Fabrics Association International, 1801 County Road B West, USA, Roseville, MN 55113-40681 - http://www.ifai.com/IFAICalendar.cfm
• 10 to 15 March 2009 "Jersey Textile Showcase", Textile art in Jersey (island located between the northern coast of France and the southern coast of England): workshops, lectures, exhibitions, organised by the foundation "Art in the Frame" and the textile group "Diversity", Info e-mail: partintheframe@yahoo.co.uk
• 12 to 14 March 2009 netzwerk mode textil, in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Niederrhein, Fachbereich Textil- und Bekleidungstechnik, in: Krefeld-Linn
• 12 et 13 février 2009 Conférence "Meta-textile",
  Identité et histoire d’un médium artistique contemporain
  Colloque international, Lausanne, Suisse, Aula du Palais de Rumine,
  http://www.unil.ch/hart/page59525.html Contact : Marco.Costantini@unil.ch
  Cette rencontre entend examiner le plus largement possible l’identité du textile dans l’art contemporain.

2008:

•  
• "From Lausanne to Beijing's" Fifth International Fiber Art Biennial
  Organizers: Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, Chinese Arts and Crafts Institute of Fiber Art Committee. November 25, 2008 - December 25, 2008, Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts.
  Application time: May 25, 2008 - July 25, 2008 (the date for a nomination form arrival date)
  Contact the organizing committee:
  Haidian District, Beijing Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University of Arts
  and Crafts Academy of Fine Arts Department of fiber art laboratory
  Zip code: 100084 - Contact: Dan Zheng, Quan-Hua Liu
  Tel / Fax: 010-62798976 - E-mail: linlecheng010@163.com
  http://www.chinafiberart.com.cn/ - (Chinese art fiber network)
• "Reinventions: Artists and Tapestry", 2nd Symposium of the Victoria Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, in 2008, Contact: Di Macleod, e-mail: dmacleod@victapestry.com.au
• London: meetings at the Courtauld Institute of Art http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/calendar/index.html
• Early Textiles Study Group - 12^th biannual conference, Textiles in Art: from the Bronze Age to the Renaissance, London 5^th and 6^th December 2008, full payment before October 1st 2008
• Costume Colloquium: A tribute to Janet Arnold, The Costume Colloquium Scientific Sessions will be held at: Auditorium al Duomo, Via de'Cerretani, 54r - 50123 Florence
  Florence, November 6-9, 2008, deadlines: registration: reduced until June 30, 2008
• 5th Symposium "La Soie en Touraine": the theme will be: the exceptional markets of the Tours Manufacture. Information: Association "Tours, Cité de las Soie", Maison des Associations Economiques, 16 rue Berthelot BP 1028, F-37010 Tours Cedex 1, Tel: (+33) 023 4705 5943, 21 November 2008
• Reiche Bilder, Aspekte zur Produktion und Funktion von Stickereien im Spätmittelalter, Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld, D-47809 Krefeld-Linn, Tel: 02151-9469450, free entrance, registration required, textilmuseum@krefeld.de 20 and 21 of November 2008
• 5th edition of TEXPOart-Intl. Triennial of textile arts, in Iasi, Romania, organised by the Foundation "Fundac Lascar" in Iasi. Please contact: Ms Miruna Hasegan, e-mail: mhasegan@arteiasei.ro or Ms Cornelia Brustureanu cbrustureanu@arteiasi.ro, website: http://www.arteiasi.ro , from 25 October to 25 November at the Nicolae Tonitza Gallery in Iasi.
• First International Congress of Fashion (CIM 2008), that will be hold in Madrid, Spain. CIM 2008 will be celebrate at the Museo del Traje (Fashion Museum) of Madrid and will bring together important personalities from the fashion world. The Congress will be inaugurated with an opening lecture by the prestigious French sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky. 22 until 24 October 2008. http://www.cim2008.es/agenda.aspx?idl=2&id=5
• International Symposium: Der Spieleteppich im Kontext profaner Wanddekoration um 1400. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany, Kartäusergasse 1, D-90402 Nürnberg, Tel.++ 0911-1331-0 / Fax 0911-1331-200. registration required, 30/31. October 2008. www.gnm.de
• Tapestry Symposium. In connexion with the exhibition of its European tapestries, the Art Institute of Chicago is organising a Symposium. It is sponsored by the Belgian Manufacture Royale De Wit. The participants will be taken through the exhibition with commentary by Koenraad Brosens, Guy Delmarcel and Thomas Campbell. Informations: textiles@artic.edu or Christa Thurman, Tel: (312) 443-3696, Fax (312) 214-4304, October 31, 2008
• Society for History of Technology, next conference will be in Lisbon, Oct 11-14, 2008, http://fiftieth.shotnews.net/?page_id=14 
• ICOM Costume Committee:
  2008: Santiago, Chile. 6-10 October. Its theme will be related to "Colonial fashion".
• Tilburg, Textile weekend with symposium, lectures, workshop, more information at: www.textielweekend.nl - 4 and 5 Ocotber 2008
• 11th BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPERS - OF THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF – AMERICA will take place in Honolulu, Hawai'i, September 24-27, 2008
  Information: Janice Lessman-Moss, External Relations Director, jlessman@kent.edu
• Balkan Fibre Art 08 (BFA) in Petrovaradin. More information: Snezana Skoko, Punctum for Artistic Experiment, ul. Klare Cetkin 1e/13, SCG-11080 Belgrad/Serbia: e-mail: punctum@yubc.net - 12 until 22 September 2008
• 14th European Patchwork meeting, St. Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, France, 18 until 21 September 2008 www.patchwork-europe.com
• Forum of Handweaving: at Schwanden, Switzerland. The textile history of the Swiss Canton Glarus will be comunicated by tours in museums and factories, lectures, information. Program: http://www.igw-uta.ch/Galerie/Download/Bruch_e.pdf , part of the meeting is the exhibition "BRUCH". Information: Silvia Gauch (exhibition), Tel. +41 (0)31 911 64 88 and Ursula Zettel (symposium), Tel. +41(0)31 971 34 44 - 29 August until 14 September 2008
• The Festival of Quilts, at the NEC fair grounds in Birmingham. 14 to 17 August 2008, Website with registration form,: http://www.twistedthread.com/pages/exhibitions/viewExhibition.aspx?id=17&view=review
  deadline for registration: 2 May 2008
• "Global Fashion and Local Identities", "Dress and Fashion in Africa and Brazil", exhibition with an international symposium with American and Brazilian lecturers. Town Museum of Recife in Brazil. More details via Ilsemargret Luttmann, e-mail: Ilsemargret.Luttmann@arcor.de
• July 2008, Summer meeting in Haslach, Austria, Textile Kultur Haslach, Marktplatz 45, A-4170 Haslach an der Mühl, Tel: +43-7289-72300, e-mail: tkh@oberoesterreich.at
  see: http://www.textile-kultur-haslach.at/ - 14 July until 25 July 2008
• Three-day international interdisciplinary Conference "In the Loop: Knitting Post, Present and Future" will take place at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, contact: Judith Horgan, e-mail: J.A.Horgan@soton.ac.uk, from 15 to 17 July 2008
• OIDFA Congress 2008, c/o Lennie Posthumus van Eijkelenburg, Pluvierplantsoen 14,
  NL - 1131 MH Volendam; venue Groningen, Holland, http://www.oidfa2008groningen.com/en/ 4 July until 6 July 2008
• Filo' ... Intorno al mondo tessile ed.2008, with Noemie Speiser and Tessy Schoenholzer, at Biblioteca Comunale di Maniago (Pn), via Battiferri 1, Maniago, Italy, Friday 4 July 2008. Deadline for inscriptions is 20 June 2008
• CHODA: Courtould History of Dress association: Dress and the Natural World, 27 and 28 June, 2008, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
• Tapestry 2008: The Fine Art of Weaving, intl. meeting with workshop, seminars and symposia, School of Art, Textiles Building 105, Australian National University (AUS), Canberra ACT 0200; 1 May until 4 May 2008 - see also: deadline and exhibition
  http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/conferences/index.php
  further information: Valerie Kirk: e- mail: Valerie.Kirk@anu.edu.au
• Smart Fabrics 2008 will provide an opportunity for leading developers, manufacturers and end users of smart fabric technologies to discover and discuss the growth potential of this burgeoning industry. The 4th annual conference will focus on the latest business issues facing the industry, including market size, commercialization and business challenges, potential for growth, technological advances and hurdles, application trends, design considerations, and production economics. Special attention will be paid to the current status of innovative smart fabrics technologies in the marketplace as well as the potential for future applications and consumer acceptance.
  Chaired by Dr. Martijn Krans of Philips Research Laboratories and Stacey Burr of Textronics Inc.
  Doubletree Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, US, 05 - 07 May 2008
• Creatività-Creativity, International Meeting on Innovative Didactic Strategies in Textile/Fibre Art, Palazzo d'Attimis-Maniago, Piazza Italia 8, Maniago, Italy, 18 April 2008, http://www.premiovalcellina.org/

2007:

• 2nd Smart and Intelligent Textiles, latest technical and electronic enhancements, Nanotextiles, , Dorint Novotel Praha Don Giovanni, Prague, Czech Republic, Monday 10 December 2007 - Wednesday 12 December 2007
  Booking inquiries, exhiition and sponsoring: Natalie King, T: +44 ()91372 802164
  F: +44 (0)91372 802243 - E: natalie.king@pira-international.com
  www.intertechpira.com
• Embroidery conference to be held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sidney, November 2007,
  Details can be found at: http://www.hand-embroidery.co.uk/embroideryconference/
  It has been decided that all Guild members/associations should also have a discount. These tickets are to be issued on a first come first first serve basis. To register as a member please choose option 5 at:
  http://www.handembroideryshop.co.uk/embroideryconference/register.php
• Volkmanntreffen 2007, Berlin: Die Berliner Schule der Teppichwissenschaft, Museum für Islamische Kunst-Mschatta-Saal, Am Kupfergraben 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte, Freitag, 26. bis Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2007
• "In Search of Origins: Wool & Culture 1500 - 1900". International symposium on wool, Historic Deerfielt, Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342, 12 September until 16 September 2007
  http://www.historic-deerfield.org/WoolandCultureSymposium.shtml
• Report of Symposium at Deerfield
• The 14th ETN Conference, including the General Assembly, will take place in 2007 from 14 to 17 September, in London. Conference language: English
  www.etn-net.org/etn/211e.htm
  The theme: Digital/Craft
  Organisers: ETN together with the Department of Art, Media & Design of the London Metropolitan University (LMU), Senior Lecturer Paula Ashbrooke
  Conference locations:
  1. London Metropolitan University, 41 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA
  2. 16 Goulston Street Lecture Theatre
  3. Student 'Sub Club', 2 Goulston Street
• 25th Anniversary of The Textile Society AGM & Conference, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington (UK) London SW7 2RL, 14 and 15 September 2007, http://www.textilesociety.org.uk/pages/events.htm - details to be announced.
• ICOM Triennial, Vienna Austria, 18-24 August 2007:
  A Pre-conference tour will be offered 17-18 august, an informal reception the 18, on August 19 the official opening with Costume Committee meetings beginning on the 20 with a presentation of Austrian costume and lectures.
  The program for the general meeting is on ICOM.-Austrias website:
  http://www.icom2007.com
• "Textile Kultur Haslach", is an organisation in a small place in the north of Austria close to the broder and near to Bavaria and Bohemia, with important textile tradition. There is a 2 weeks Textile Symposium every summer with workshops, exhibitions, lectures, international weaver's fair. www.textile.kultur.haslach.at 16 until 26 July 2007
• "Regards sur le textile", Journées d'études de l'ACAOAF, Abbaye de Belleperche – 31 mai, 1er et 2 juin 2007 (informations by Mme Aribaud : christine.aribaud@wanadoo.fr).
• Black and white, conference of the Courtauld History of Dress Association, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, Somerset House, (UK) London WC2R 0RN, 29 and 30 June 2007 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/calendar/index.html
• 2nd Festival of Artistic Tapestry Krakow 2007, ZPAP Union of Polish Artists and Designers, Circle Krakow Office, ul. Lobzowska 3, Pl - 31139 Krakow, 17 May until 31 Mai 2007
• Athens: The annual conference organized by the "Christian Archeological Society of Athens" from 11 to 13 May 2007 will have a full day on textiles on the theme " Techniques and Technology of Byzantine Textiles.
  Byzantine and Christian Museum, Vas. Sofias 22, 10675 Athens, Greece
• The 11th International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC), Swissotel, Istanbul, 19 until 22 April 2007, http://www.icoc-istanbul.org/callforpapers.htm
  
• "La Tapisserie de Bayeux: une chronique des temps Vikings?", exhibition and symposium, 29 and 30 March 2007, in collaboration with the Danish National Museum.The language of the symposium will be French.
  "La Tapisserie de Bayeux et sa parenté avec les tentures historiées
  scandinaves du Moyen Age" par Sylvette LEMAGNEN, conservateur de la
  Tapisserie de Bayeux.
  Submission of conference papers to be sent to: Sylvette Lemagnen, slemagnen@mairie-bayeux.fr. Médiathèque Municipale, rue aux Coqs. BP 21215, 14402 Bayeux Cedex, tel.: +33 (0) 2 31 51 20 20, fax: +33 (0) 2 31 51 20 21, web site: www.mairie-bayeux.fr
• Tours, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Journée d’étude, « Aux limites de la couleur »: vendredi 30 mars 2007

2006:

• FROM LAUSANNE TO BEIJING, 4th INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART BIENNALE,
  & INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART SYMPOSIUM, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute Art Gallery, China, 27 October until 17 November 2006.
• Beziehungsreiche Gewebe – Textilien im Mittelalter, Internationale Tagung
  Museum für Angewandte Kunst - Köln, 24.-26. November 2006
• The Abegg Colloquium on "FASHION AND CLOTHING IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE"
  organized by the Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, in conjunction with the Medieval History Institute of Bern University, in Riggisberg, Switzerland, 16-18 November 2006
  reporeted by Rosalia Bonito Fanelli
• Hyderabad: International Symposium and Workshop on Natural Dyes
  The UNESCO is organising, in collaboration with the Crafts Council of India, an international Symposium and Workshop on Natural Dyes which will take place in Hyderabad from 6 to 12 November 2006, French and English will be the working languages.
  Dominique Cardon is coordinator of the Symposium. For informatiob, contact Mr Indrassen Vencatachellum, Division des arts et de l'entreprise culturelle, UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France, fax:(+33) (0) 1.45.68.57.55, e-mail: vencatachellum@unesco.org
• London: meeting at the Courtauld Institute of Art:
  The Medieval Dress and Textile Society, in its bulletin of January 2006 announced the following meeting at the Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House, Strand, www.medats.org.uk
  28 October: Aspects of European Embroidery in Late Middle Ages
• "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
• "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)
• Manchester: clothing ion the Near East to AD 1600
  The Biennial Conference is organised by the Early Textile Study Group, 8 - 10 September 2006, at Ashburne Hall, the University of Manchester. Information: Miss Frances Pritchard, Textile Department, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Universiity of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M 15 6 ER, Grande-Bretagne, e-mail: frances.pritchard@manchester.ac.uk
• Scythia 6, Kherson/Ukraine, international meeting on contemporary textile art, from 14th to 18th June 2006. Contact: anschnei@public.kherson.ua http://anschnei.public.kherson.ua
• 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 deadline for registration: 1 June 2006 http://www.costumesociety.org.uk/newstuff/News/textilesandtext.html on 11 to 13 July 2006
• LEEDS: sessions on talking about textiles
  The International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9th to 13th July 2006. Sessions on Talking about Textiles and Transforming Textiles are organised by Dr Gale Owen Crocker. Details can be obtained on http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2006.html or by postmail from IMC, Parkinson 1.03, University of Leeds LS29TJ
• Historische Textilien aus Kirchen und Klöstern, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Koeln, Studientag am 15. Juni 2006
• TICCIH TEXTILE MEETING (the international Committee for the Conservation of the industrial Heritage), 8 until 10 June 2006 in Sedan and Mouzon/North of France. The area is a historic wool-processing centre with textile-industrial monuments. Registration address: Alain Renard, Treasurer of CREPI, 2 rue Saint Denis, F-08210 Mouzon, e-mail: alain.renard@gmail.com
  Organiser: APIC together with CREPI: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/crepi/index1.htm
• Unlocking the Trunk: Collections, Collectors and Collecting, 32nd Annual Symposium of the Costume Society of America, Hartford, CT, May 31st - June 3rd 2006
  A new informal forum for living history on Friday June 2nd: for more information contact Ann Wass (AnnBWass@aol.com) by April 15, 2006
• 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
• 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

2005:

• Art of the Stitch Embroiderers' Guild, Hampton Court Palace, App, 41 (UK) East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU, deadline 25 November 2005
• The Second International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Roman World in Athens, Greece, on 17 and 18 November 2005, information: Estibaliz Tebar: Estibaliz.Tebar@uv.es , or Lila de Chaves: lildechav@Yahoo.fr , or Carmen Alfaro Giner: Carmen.Alfaro@uv.es
• International Symposium on the Silk Road and Mongol Art, in Hangzhou, China, at the Chinese National Silk Musuem in conjunction with the exhibition, "Gold, Silk, Blue and White Porcelain: Popular Art in the Marco Polo Era, from 20 September to 20 November 2005, Symposium from 1 until 3 November 2005
  e-mail: cctic2000@mail.hz.zj.cn
• "Lace yesterday and today", The Royal Museums of Art and History, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Information: coppens@kmkg-mrah.be Tel. +32(2)741.72.57, Fax +32(2)733.77.35 - Friday 21 October and Saturday 22 October 2005
• Precious Thread: The manufacture, trade and usage of gold and silver yarn in Medieval Society, London, 22 until 23 October 2005
• The 6th International Workshop of Textile Art in Nordic Countries, TEXO - Textile Artists, Unioninkatu 26, FIN - 00130 Helsinki, 30 July until 7 August 2005
• International Conference on Oriental Carpets, 19 April until 22 April 2007,
  http://www.icoc-orientalrugs.org
• DRAFT: IN SEARCH OF ORIGINS: Needlework & Samplers, from the Old & New Worlds 1500-1850, 8 - 11 September, 2005 (Thursday – Sunday), Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342
• 11th European Patchwork Meeting, 15 September until 18 September 2005,
  http://www.patchwork-europe.com otva.crupic@wanadoo.fr otva.vloux@wanadoo.fr
• 13th ETN Conference in Turkey, 15 until 17 September 2005
• 5th intl. Textile Art Symposium in Tblisi, Georgia, 24 until 27 September 2005, organised by the Georgian Textile Group, venue Tblisi Silk Museum, Tsabadze Street 6
• CIETA GENERAL ASSEMBLY LYON - 50th ANNIVERSARY, Lyon, 26 until 29 September 2005
• ICOM COSTUME COMMITTEE MEETING, 2005, BERLIN, June 13 - 17, 2005
• I T A L I A.... I N V I T A - Rimini, Nord Bellaria, 13 - 15 May 2005
• Collectors, Collecting & Collections, Second Biennal Symposium, International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 24-26, 2005
  

2004:

• Les journées d'étude 2004 de l'AFET, Association française pour l'étude du textile,
  19 et 20 novembre 2004, à Paris
• Symposium: Papiertapeten - Bestände, Erhaltung und Restaurierung
  Schloss Weesenstein, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen, 14.-16. Oktober 2004
• invitation to colloquium:"Non destructive Testing of cultural heritage"
  "interdisciplinary collaboration", Friday, 15 octobre 2004, Paul Scherrer Institut,  at Villigen (CH)
• Volkmann-meeting: 15 to 17 October 2004 in Traunstein:
  http://www.volkmanntreffen.de
• Arbeitstagung Luzern: 18. Oktober 2004, Zukunft der Museen: Neue Trägerschaften - rechtliche Auswirkungen. Weitere Informationen:
  http://vms-ams.ch/fileadmin/vms-ams/docs/EL_TagungSeite2.doc
  Anmeldung: http://vms-ams.ch/fileadmin/vms-ams/docs/Anmeldung.doc
• Medieval Dress and Textile Society. Clothes and Tailoring in Medieval Europe: Reconstructing Medieval Tailoring.Saturday 23rd October 2004, Kenneth Clarke Lecture Theatre
  Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand , London WC2 ORN.
  Please note the changed arrangements of the programme
  http://www.medats.org.uk/current/currentfs.htm, Please return the booking slip by Monday 11th October
• Fachtagung SKR/SCR, "restaurer et créer", vom 23.-25.9.2004 in Lausanne
• The Ninth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, 6 - 9 October 2004, at Marriott Hotel, Oakland, California: http://www.textilesociety.org/downloads/program_single_pp.pdf
• Room with a View - Historic House Museums and their surroundings,
  Conference of DemHist (ICOM comity of Museums in historic buildings) , in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 2 to 4 September 2004
  Fro program and inscription form see: http://www.icom-suisse.ch/Aktuelles.126.0.html
  (see under 5: "Programm und Anmeldeformular")
• Textile Cultures: Spain and England since 1500, University of Southampton, 22-23 July 2004
• Conference on "Dress and Gender", Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England), July 2-3, 2004
• Textiles liturgiques, journée d'étude, samedi 17 avril 2004, Perpignan

2003:

• International Forum of Lace and Embroidery, I T A L I A .....I N V I T A,
  Rimini, Nord Bellaria, 9 - 11 May 2003, Pre-event Workshops, May 8th and 9th 2003
  Exhibitions (Theme: Flowers), Workshops, Lectures, Demos
• Carpets and flat fabrics of "Baluch", Museum of Canton Baselland, CH-4410 Liestal (Switzerland), 31 January to 2 February 2003

2002:

• "La soie en Touraine", 2ème colloque, at 37010 Tours Cédex 1- France, Vendredi 29 Novembre 2002
• World Congress Knitting for the 21st Century, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, 7 to 8 October 2002
• Silk Roads - Other Roads, TSA-SYMPOSIUM, Textile Society of America
  in Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 26 to 28 September 2002
• L'ornement en France au XVIIe siècle, Colloque international à Paris, vendredi 21 et samedi 22 juin 2002, de 9 h 30 à 18 h 30, à l'autitorium du Louvre, Paris
• Uniformen fürs Zivile - Zur Geschichte uniformer Kleidung als symbolische Kommunikation, Krefeld, Deutschland, 23. bis 25. Mai 2002, eine Veranstaltung der Universität Münster
• 8th International Young Fashion Designers Contest, St. Petersburg, Russia, Admiralteiskaya Igla (Admiralty Needle), Day-by-day Programme, May, 25^th – 31^st

2001:

• International embroidery competition, at the exhibition for textiles and crafts: "Nadel und Faden", in the town hall of Osnabrueck, Germany, 14/15 september 2001, information: e.moschitz-finger@stadthalle-osnabrueck.de
• "Jouer la lumière : la lumière, le textile et l'oeil", November 12th and 13rd, Jean-Paul Leclercq organized a colloquium, in French, Information in the web site of the UCAD : www.ucad.fr
• Genova, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan: 19-23 March and 2-6 April 2001
• International ETN-Conference, Riga, Lettland. Ms Velta Raudzepa, curator Museum of Arts and Crafts, Skarnu Str. 10/20, LV-1050 Riga, Lettland, tel: +371-7/228057; fax: +371-7/229736; e-mail: dlmm.velta@parks.lv; http://www.gallery.lv/textileart/etn.html : 13-16 June 2001
• 2nd Forum of Embroidery and Lace: Chateau de Lunéville: Conservatoire des Broderies de Lunéville, Mme Maryvonne Francois-Remy, BP 117, F-54304 Lunéville, Tel: +33/383735686; fax: +33/383735686: 16-17 June 2001
• Colloque international - Corse Christiana: 30 June to 4 July 2001
• 3rd international Textile symposium in Georgia: 11 until 15 September 2001, at Tiblisi, Georgia, and international exhibition of contemporary textile art: Crossroads. Georgian textile Group/ MsNino Kipshidze, Rustaveli 54, GEO -380006 Tiblisi, Georgia. Tel. +995-32/999984; Fax:/230147; e-mail: nkipshidze@flashmail.com; http://www.opentext.org.ge/textile
• needle and thread, 120 exhibitors meet in the town hall of Osnabrueck, Germany, 15/16 September 2001
• Embroidery Arts Symposium 2001, and exhibition "Painted with Thread - The Art of the American Embroiderer" (13 April - 30 September 2001): Peabody Essex Museum, Salem/USA: 21-23 June 2001