Textile Textures: Multithreaded Narratives

The new definitive reader on contemporary textiles, approaching the medium from academic, curatorial and personal perspectives

With an exposed spine binding and packaged in a softcover slipcase, Textile Textures is a collective volume that grows out of the project Interweaving Structures: Fabric as Material, Method and Message, organized jointly by the Central Museum of Textiles in Lódz, the Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design at the University of Bergen, and the Doctoral School of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. By virtue of its use and construction, textiles interweave a variety of different themes. Thus the book’s uniqueness lies in its multifaceted treatment of the medium. Each essay takes a different methodological or personal approach in the form of a “thread,” be it curatorial, postcolonial, industrial or traditional. These chapters are illustrated with work by contemporary artists, some of whom use textiles as their main medium and others who encounter it only sparingly.