Textiles × Science : Textile Technology Research Group

Nominations and Volunteers Virtual Information Session
on June 11, 2022
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT

* Would you like to volunteer and serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Textile Society of America?

* Do you know a colleague with leadership and organizational skills that should be nominated?

* Would you like to learn about ways to get involved with the organization?

Join members of the Board of Directors and Members of the Nominations and Elections Committee to learn how to get involved and share your ideas to help develop and grow our organization.

TSA is a volunteer-run organization and relies on your participation and commitment to our fields!

Nonmembers are encouraged to attend!

You will receive a Zoom link in your registration confirmation email.

The Board plays an essential role for the organization and we ask all members to thoughtfully consider potential nominees.

Current open positions:
* Treasurer
* Assistant Director of Membership and Outreach
* Assistant Director of Communications
* Assistant Director of Volunteers and Mentorship
* Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion
* Assistant Director of Awards and Scholarships
* Assistant Director of Programs

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Register for TSA Nominations and Volunteers Virtual Information Session on June 11, 2022
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT
* Would you like to volunteer and serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Textile Society of America?
* Do you know a colleague with leadership and organizational skills that should be nominated?
* Would you like to learn about ways to get involved with the organization?
Join members of the Board of Directors and Members of the Nominations and Elections Committee to learn how to get involved and share your ideas to help develop and grow our organization.
TSA is a volunteer-run organization and relies on your participation and commitment to our fields!
Nonmembers are encouraged to attend!
You will receive a Zoom link in your registration confirmation email.
The Board plays an essential role for the organization and we ask all members to thoughtfully consider potential nominees.
Current open positions:
* Treasurer
* Assistant Director of Membership and Outreach
* Assistant Director of Communications
* Assistant Director of Volunteers and Mentorship
* Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion
* Assistant Director of Awards and Scholarships
* Assistant Director of Programs

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Textile hub Bangladesh revives muslin, the forgotten elite fabric Flowing garments woven from the cloth were worn by Mughal rulers before the fabric enchanted European aristocrats.

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?

Posted • Recently published "When Linen Remembers" in Material Intelligence, edited by Glenn Adamson, Chipstone Foundation. LINK IN BIO.

Excerpt: "Linen is difficult to weave. Not supple, not pliant—it is stately and proud. It does not bend freely to the will of others and is downright defiant at times. But as we dress our looms, we are enticed by linen’s whispers. We hear its origin story, we understand its stalk-straight lineage. So we come to linen with honey and dates, herbs and leaves, water and smoke, and together play the loom in a rhythm of remembering. As we weave, its archaic memory flows into our hands, its golden seeds flood us with the gift of recollection. Memory is linen’s mother tongue."

ALIPIO MELO, DANITZA WILLKA, and MARÍA JOSÉ MURILLO:
Noqanchis Awaqkuna (We The Weavers / Nosotrxs lxs tejedorxs)

Wednesday, November 3rd, 4:15-5:45 pm CST
Free and open to the public. Virtual on Zoom. Join on Zoom here:
saic-edu.zoom.us/j/82285482070
This event will take place in English and Spanish, with live, simultaneous interpretation in both languages.

NOQANCHIS AWAQKUNA
(We The Weavers)

This lecture brings together members of the Noqanchis group (Union of Textile Artists - Andes of Peru), recently formed by prominent young Indigenous weavers from Pitumarca, Peru, Alipio Melo and Danitza Willka, together with artist María José Murillo (SAIC MFA 2019). In Quechua, noqanchis translates to "we all". It is an inclusive 'we' (+) as opposed from noqayku, which refers to a restrictive 'we' (-). Unlike Western languages, Quechua maintains the same root for 'I' [noqa] and for 'we' [noqanchis/noqayku], demonstrating the inseparable link between the individual and the community in the construction of Andean identity.

The presentation will create a space for the weavers to speak from their most personal voice, thereby subverting the historical representations that the western perspective has imposed on indigenous cultures. Textile artists from Pitumarca – better known as "The Capital of Andean Weaving" – will share reflections on how they keep their traditions alive, focusing on the ancestral and trans-temporal technology of the backstrap loom as a tool for contemporary cultural production. In this way, weaving is lived in the Andes not only as an activity, but also as an episteme, establishing relationships between the Earth beings and the Cosmos, between the past and the future.

Made possible by the generous support of the William Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lectureship in Fiber and Material Studies. All lectures will be live captioned by CART. For additional access requests, including ASL interpretation or audio description, visit saic.edu/access.

[Image description: Outdoors in the sun, three people sit cross-legged in a circle on the ground. Each holds a strand of the yarn being spun together onto a drop spindle in the center.]

Quilting, Mathematics, and Thoughts on the Beauty of Pure Abstraction
with Sarah Nishiura

Registration required. Free event. Please send request to [email protected]

As we all hunkered down during the pandemic, with little access to stores and our usual supplies and materials, I found myself considering how women from the past who did not have easy access to store bought templates and pre printed patterns did their work. I approached my mathematician father with the question: how could a person create a hexagon template without access to a computer, the internet, and a printer? Our resulting conversations about geometry, design, and the essence of abstraction are the basis of this talk. We will consider the allure of regular polygons and revisit Euclid’s insight into understanding these forms. We will discuss ways to draft these shapes without use of ruler or compass and spend some time appreciating the potential of the simplest geometric forms to produce an infinite number of dazzling designs.

BIO
Sarah Nishiura is a Chicago based quiltmaker who utilizes traditional techniques to craft quilts out of recycled and vintage materials. Inspired by numerous textile traditions including 19th and early 20th century American Quilts, Sarah's work explores and celebrates the infinite possibilities of geometric design. Her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad including the Iowa Quilt Museum, the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Art, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and the Yokohama Quilt Fest in Japan. Her quilts have been featured in numerous magazines and blogs including Martha Stewart Living, QuiltFolk Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and Food and Wine, and they are included in private, corporate, and public art collections throughout the United States. In 2019 Sarah received an Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award for Craft. Sarah has an MFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in visual arts from Brown University.
More information about Sarah's studio practice can be found at:
http://www.sarahnishiura.com/

Organization The event has been held over 26 times all over the world, and after more than 10 since it last graced European soil, it touches down in Barcelona. With it comes an enthusiastic international and local community, ready to work together to develop this interdisciplinary field. As it has travelled the....

Visionary Textiles: How Anni Albers Staked a Claim for Herself as a Key Modernist A series of exhibitions has cemented Albers’s place as a seminal modernist.

[TXS/TTRG] TEXTILE × SCIENCE

Engineered Materials: Electrospinning, structure, and mechanics

June 5th 2021, 10:30 am. PST, 12:30 pm. CST, 1:30 pm. EST

Register at [email protected]

Dr. Addie Bahi, a Research Scientist, Sessional Lecturer and the Manager of the Advanced Fibrous Materials Lab at the University of British Columbia, explores boundaries of fibrous materials through a variety of processes to exploit their properties and potentials. He takes fibers into new and unexpected realms to expand their conventional applications, uncovering new avenues and ideas for the future of the industry. Addie will share his current research and projects on nanofibers, electrospinning, and fiber mechanics.

Dr. Addie Bahi is a Research Scientist and Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia and the Manager of the Advanced Fibrous Materials Lab at UBC, a multidisciplinary lab conducting research and teaching of subjects ranging from nano-biomaterials to electronic textiles. He received a B.Sc. in Textile Chemistry and Fiber Science Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University, a M.Sc.in Textile Engineering and Biotechnology from Tehran Azad University, a M.S.S. in Software Systems from UBC and a Ph.D. from The University of Manchester.

Opinion | Women and Men Are Like the Threads of a Woven Fabric The textiles women produced made our civilization what it is.