Handbook of Textile Culture

Janis Jefferies is Professor of Visual Arts and Research Fellow at the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.Diana Wood Conroy is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and Research Chair of Fashion at the Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA.

• Preface, Anne WilsonSection 1: Textiles in the Expanded FieldIntroduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK1. New Approaches to Textile Design, Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School for Design, USA2. Views from Australia and the Asia Pacific, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia 3. Curating Textiles: Stuff That Matters, Sara Martinetti, France, Alice Motard, Raven Row, UK, Alex Sainsbury, Raven Row, UK, and Seth Siegelaub (deceased)4. Textiles and Architecture, Bradley Quinn, USA5. Patchworking Ways of Knowing and Making, Kristina Lindstrom and Asa Stahl, Malmo University, Sweden6. Making Known: The Textiles Toolbox - Psychoanalysis of Seven Types of Textile Thinking, Claire Pajaczkowska, Royal College of Art, UKSection 2: Textile, Narrative, Identity, ArchiveIntroduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK7. Binding Autobiographies: A Jewishing Cloth, Katya Oicherman, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel8. Materials, Memories and Metaphors: The Textile Self Re/collected, Solveigh Goett, University of East London, UK9. Archives of Cloth: Shadows of the Past in Re-Visioning Textiles, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia10. Lived Lives: Materializing Stories of Young Irish Suicide, Seamus McGuinness, IrelandSection 3: Textiles and Globalization Introduction, Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School for Design, USA11. Performing Globalization in the Textile Industry: Anne Wilson and Mandy Cano Villalobos, Lisa Vinebaum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA12. Changing Perceptions of Curatorial Practice in South Asian and Commonwealth Textiles, Jasleen Dhamija, India13. Quilts for the Twenty-First Century: Activism in the Expanded Field of Quilting, Kirsty Mairi Robertson, University of Western Ontario, Canada14. Transforming Malaysian Hand Woven Songket in the Contemporary World, June Ngo Siok Kheng, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia15. Creative Resilience Thinking in Textiles and Fashion, Mathilda Tham, Beckmans College of Design, Sweden16. Use Your Illusion: Dazzle, Deceit and the 'Vicious Problem' of Textiles and Fashion, Otto von Busch, University of Gothenburg, SwedenSection 4: Textiles and the Curatorial TurnIntroduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK17. Curating Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance, Matilda McQuaid, Cooper Hewitt, USA 18. Social Fabric: Textiles, Art, Society and Politics, Christine Checinska, University of East London, UK and Grant Watson, Institute of International Visual Arts, UK19. Innovation in Australian Indigenous Fibre, Margie West, Australia20. Kaunas Biennial: Spindling from Textile to Public Culture, Ed Carroll, Blue Drum, Ireland21. A Global Stage: Curating Textiles from the Asia Pacific, Ruth McDougall, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia22. Envisioning Fibre in the Cultural Heritage of Hangzhou, China, Shi Hui and Xu Jia, China Academy of Art, China 23. The Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials 1962-1995, Giselle Eberhard Cotton, Fondation Toms Pauli, SwitzerlandSection 5: Textile Technologies and the Sensorial TurnIntroduction, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia24. The Fabric of Memory - Towards the Ontology of Contemporary Textiles, Sara Diamond, OCAD University, Canada25. Indigo Dyeing in the Land of Its Origin: History Unknown, Smritikumar Sarkar, University of Burdwan, India26. Feeling: Sensing the Affectivity of Emotional Politics Through Textiles, Agnieszka Golda, University of Wollongong, Australia27. Reviving Kapiak: Understanding the Material Identity of Barkcloth in a Melanesian Society, Graeme Were, University of Queensland, AustraliaSection 6: Developments in the Field of Textiles, Cloth and CultureInterviews with Annet Couwenberg, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Valerie Kirk, Kay Lawrence, Judith Leeman, Sara Lindsay, Joan Livingstone, Rowland Ricketts, Patrick Segura, Jenni Sorkin, Lisa Vinebaum, Fo Wilson and Anne WilsonBibliographyIndex

This book fascinates and, with such engaging and diverse content, it will attract and inform many readers … I suspect its full significance in the expanding fields of textile practices, textile studies and textile histories will only become evident in a decade or so, when its scope and impact can be better understood.