Textile-Cloth and Culture

Article	Citations
The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto	10
The Fabric of Our Lives: Reflections From Maria Balshaw	8
Designing Dua Negeri (Two Countries) Batik Influenced by Indonesia and Thailand Shared Culture to Enrich the Batik Repertoire in Both Countries	5
The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art , Zhejiang Art Museum, October 18 – December 5, 2022	5
Continuity and Innovation: The Traditional Inheritance of the Modern Vietnamese Áo Dài	5
Interpretation of Midas Monument in Knitted Surface Design with Impressionist Approach	5
The Feminine Artistry of Banjara Embroidery of Telangana	5
Linen Refi Threads in Renaissance Florence: The Making and the Use in Textiles and Tapestries	4
In Kind: A Dialogue on Repair	3
Tate Britain Commission: Hew Locke's The Procession	3
Exhibition Review	3
Authenticity and Place-Based Knitwear: Fair Isle and Aran Knitting in Shetland and the West of Ireland	3
Cultural Signification and Craftsmanship of Gollabhama Sarees	3
Materializing the Invisible: Embodied Translation of Domestic Labor Through Textile Resist-Dyeing Practices	3
“Out of Place”: Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Virtual Space	3
A Saussurean Semiotic Study of Symbolism in Keringkam Motifs: Interpreting Sarawak Malay Embroidery Within an Islamic Cultural Framework	3
Tradition, Change and Meaning: Textile Banners of the Durham Miners’ Gala	2
Yarn over Police Brutality: Race and the Occupation of Rochester City Hall’s Steps during the Daniel Prude Protest	2
Photographs of Jewish Clothing in Nazi Germany and the Shoah: Visual Records of Economic Assaults, Exploitation, and Plunder	2
Threads of Identity: Exploring Gendered Costume Practices in the Raika Community of Western Rajasthan, India	2
Impossible Numbers: Using the Linguistics of Labor-Intensity to Embroider a Text-Less Postcrisis Story	2
Silent Messages: The Role of İğne Oyası in Konya’s Dürü Tradition	2
Alchemization of Scrap Fabrics Narratives: From Small Ateliers, Off-Cuts, Threads, and Forgotten Scraps to Practical Creations of Textile Artifacts	2
Weaving Prayer. The Fabrication of Worship in the Convent of St Agnes, Emmerich, in the Fifteenth Century	2
Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine	2

Traditional Bomkai Saree from the Ganjam District of Odisha, India: A Sight to Behold	2
Historical and Scientific Discussion on Four Major Colors of Natural Dyes Used for Traditional Textiles in the Indian Subcontinent	2
Eva Obodo’s Recent Works: Tied, Twisted Textiles and Social Life in Nigeria	2
Iris van Herpen: The Body	2
Knitting and Everyday Meaning-Making	2
Textiles: Tracing Our Presence	2
The Cultural Biography of Mohair: From Ottoman Sof Weaving to Contemporary Rural Development in Turkey	2
The Lives behind the Luxurious Threads: Beleaguered Sustainability of Kashmir’s Pashmina Artisans	2
SLOW CLOSE LOOKING: Inside The Davis Street Drawing Room	2
In Praise of the Scarf: Its Role as Social Skin in Rites of Passage	1
Celebrating 10 years of Wari Watai. Cu Fibers 2024 – Objects	1
Ananse Ntentan and the Code of Minimalism: Scrutinizing Sculptural Thread Art Through Spider Web-Inspired Artworks	1
Bark/Birch/Birkenau (A Conversation with Giuseppe Penone, Georges Didi-Huberman and Gerhard Richter)	1
Knitting Close to the Edge	1
Thread Bearing Witness at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury	1
Made Done and Mended: Textiles Salvaged, Saved and Sewn	1
Cultural Textiles in Italy: Analyzing Pictorial Weaving in Graziella Guidotti’s Dentro il verziere (Inside the Orchard)	1
Dressing for the End of Time: Nihilism, Ritual and Nietschze, in Rick Owen’s Temple of Love	1
The Historical and Cultural Legacy of Muslin in South Asia: From Colonial Decline to Contemporary Revival	1
Indian Ikats and the Handloom Sector at a Crossroads – A Case Study of the Pochampally Ikat Weavers in Telangana (India)	1
Stab It, Strangle It 1 : Media Representations of Knitters, and Subversions of the Stereotype to Reflect Inclusion and Diversity	1
Exhibition Review	1
Strengthening Batik Character Using Sundanese Cultural Background (Case Study: Hasan Batik of Bandung Batik Pioneers)	1
Threads of Tradition: An Ethnographic Account of Silkworm Rearing Among the Pahari Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir	1
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope , London, UK: Tate Modern, 17 November 2022 to 21 May 2023 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Ro	1
Weaving Webs of Protection: Gringsing Textiles	1
Ties That Bind or Exclude? Knitting and Craft Groups as Contested Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion	1
What is to Hand: The Fold as Landscape Within Textile Imagination	1
The Twofold Manifestation of Perfectionism in Textile Craft: Experiences of Self-Identified Perfectionists	1
A Heritage “Nettle” Sheet Reveals the First Physical Evidence of a Hemp/Hop Textile from Denmark	1
Adoption of Patterns and Adaption of Cultures: Silk Textiles of the Khitan Liao (907-1125)	1
Lace as A Cultural Element in Turkish Home Decoration	1
Life after Death: A Saree as Memoir	1
Costume and Culture: Indigenous Tribes of the Himalayas	1
In Conversation with Jen Cable and Betsy Greer: What ‘Craftivism’ Means Now	1
The Culture Process Applied to the Hñahñu Artisanal Textile Embroidery in Mexico	1
Weaving as a Livelihood Option: A Study of the Bhulia Weaver Community in Odisha, India	1
A Model for Combining Wearable Technology and Cheongsam Design	1
Traditional and Contemporary Facets of String Puppets of Rajasthan	1
Poland in Blue: The Phenomenon of the Denim Clothing Industry in Polish Society During the Socialistic Period	1
Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings	1
Performing Reparative Craft: Oreet Ashery’s Passing through Metal	0
Bhairavgarh Batik: Cultural Heritage, Technical Practice, and Sustainable Futures in an Indian Resist-Dye Tradition	0
Motif, Myth and Materiality in Textile: The Habaspuri Handloom Saree of Odisha as a Gendered Cultural Text(ile)	0
Kathputli in Transition: Heritage, Hardship, and the Contemporary Scenario of Puppetry Art Form of Rajasthan, India	0
Dressing Up: “Reading” Costume in the Photograph Albums of Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Jews	0
Making Mothers and More: Chinese New Moms and the Crafting of Identity Through Mindful Textile Practice	0
The Nexus Between Crime and Textiles: Exploring the Sustainability Strategies of Ghana’s Textile Industry Through the Lens of Routine Activity Theory	0
Territory(ies)-Body(ies): Textiles and Embodied Experiences That Produce Maps	0
Stormy Weather: Textile Art, Water and Climate Emergency	0

Knitting Algorithmic Assemblages	0
Cultural Threads: Dress, Identity and Tourism in the Santhal Tribe	0
Review: Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in Indo-British Textile Trade at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, December 2025	0
Jewish Beauty Pageants in Interwar Poland: Entertainment, Beauty Ideal, and National Emotions	0
Bagru Printing: A Sustainable Practice	0
Iris van Herpen: Tools	0
Pharad Block Printing: A Cultural Treasure Resurging in Contemporary Times	0
Bandolier Bags and Indigenous Modernism	0
Bagru Textiles: Recontextualizing Traditional Craft as Contemporary Art	0
Braiding the Identity of the Zenú People: Territory and Nature-Culture Relationships in the Crafting of the Vueltiao Hat	0
Reimagining Marginal Textiles: Digital Crafting and the Renewal of Weaving Practices	0
Sustainable Transformation of the Lamongan Batik Industry Through Green Economy and Islamic Philanthropy	0
Upcycled Art Production from Post-Consumer Textile Waste to Foster Environmental Sustainability Awareness	0
Unraveling Issues in Contemporary Knitting Volume 2: Bound Together? Agency and Activism	0
From Loom to Life: Narayanpet Sarees	0
Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly’s Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall’s Theory of Representation	0
The Jordanian Shemagh: From Fabric and Colors to Cultural and Social Symbolism	0
Worn to Resist: The Political and Cultural Semiotics of Indian Headgear	0
Abra Abel : A Tapestry of Abrenian Culture and Heritage	0
Body, Dress, and Symbolic Capital: Multifaceted Presentation of PUGREE in Colonial Governance of British India	0
Chinese Folk Embroidery Bellyband: The Intersection of Loving Symbol, Emotional Release, and Spiritual Needs	0
Changing Identity in Chinese Fashion: Self-Choice and Preference During Late Qing Dynasty and Republican China	0
Knitwork: Creativity and the Manufacture of British Designer Knitwear in the 1980s	0
The Power of Padma. Forever is Now Vol 3 Exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, November 2024	0
Sacred Clothing, Everyday Ritual: A Case Study of the Deity Laddu Gopal’s Dress Practices in India through Ethnographic and Material Culture Perspectives	0
A Designer’s Perspective on a Creative Era in Knitwear Design: British Fashion Knitwear 1970–1990	0
Lederhosen,Dirndl, and a Sense of Belonging: Jews andTrachtenin Pre-1938 Austria	0
Framing Heritage Through Slow Design: A Comparative Study of Arraiolos Stitch Tapestry and Lawan Panja Durries	0
Ob-La-Di, Oc-to-Pus (Life Goes on): a Modern Métis Fire Bag (2021)	0
Exploring Symbolism and Myth in the Motifs of Pashmina Shawls: A Semiotic Analysis	0
Introduction: Textiles and Trauma	0
Received, in Shadows and Silence Received, in Shadows and Silence : Review of Do Ho Suh Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, November 4, 2022–F	0
Transforming Discarded Denim into Interior Art Through Box Furniture Design	0
İmren Erşen Oya Müzesi İmren Erşen Oya Müzesi , Permanent Collection, Eskişehir, Turkiye: Eskişehir Büyükşehir Belediyesi	0
Aambkapad, Chira, Khun, and more – Intercultural Influences on Fabrics of the Peshwas of Pune, India	0
Textiles, Embodiment, and Mourning in Traditional Korean Funeral Rites	0
Iris van Herpen: Collaboration	0
Stranded Iconographies: The Journeys of Tapestries from Rorke’s Drift, 1965	0
Pliable Logic as a Practice-Led Research Methodology for Textile Practice	0
Re-Engineering Nubi : A Design-Driven Approach to Cultural Sustainability in Korean Fashion/Textile Practice	0
Sustainability: Repurposing Textile Wastes for Visual Artwork Using “Orifabrics”	0
Re/Assembling the Imaginary: Counter-Narratives of Haiti’s Transnational Textile Industry	0
Ten Perspectives of the  Gáppte : Materializing Different Ways of Being Sámi	0
Fashion Auteurs: Yves Saint Laurent , Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas	0
Unraveling Issues in Contemporary Knitting Volume 1: Meaning, Identity, Community	0
Diffraction in Textiles-Based Community Craft Groups	0
The Evolving Story of Batik Printing	0
Exhibition Review	0
Modern Confections: Jews, New Women, and the Business of Fashion in Imperial Berlin	0
Handloom Guardians: Women Weavers of Mohpara in Assam, India	0
Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature	0
Technical Thinking on Chinese Embroidered Paintings	0
Sustainability of the Handloom Textile in India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies	0
Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting: Working with a Community of Practice	0
Embodied Identity in Cloth: Weaving, Gender, and Material Culture Among the Mishing Tribe of Assam, India	0
Weaving Cultural Sustainability in Urban Craft Economies and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Kesi Silk Tapestry in Taiwan	0
Western Minimalism in Design: Oriental Roots and Cultural Borrowings	0
The Ladies Ulster in the 1870s and 1880s: From “Eccentric-Looking” to “Beau Ideal”	0
The Sasanian Silk Road: Socioeconomic Structures of the Zoroastrian Silk Trade	0
Japanese Women’s Body Politics, Focusing on Clothing/Textiles in Pre- and Post-World War II Japanese Culture on Film	0
The Loom of Legacy: Deciphering Banarasi Craftsmanship	0
Fading Embroidery: Navigating the Decline Tradition of Zari-Zardozi	0
Jajam: A Traditional Handwoven and Handprinted Floor Covering	0
Hand Loom Weaving: The Threading of Kairos and Phronesis	0
Weaving Place and Identity: Textile Ecology, Gender, and Material Culture Among the Hill Karbi of Assam	0
Tiwi Textiles Design, Making, Process	0
Fashion, Society and the First World War: International Perspectives Fashion, Society and the First World War: International Perspectives	0
“Authentic and What Real Muslims Wore”: Medieval Textiles as a Source of Religious Authenticity in Contemporary Knitting Patterns	0
Threads of Empowerment. Conflict Textiles’ International Journey , Ulster Museum, Belfast, June 21, 2024–April 27, 2025	0
Will There Be Womanly Times? Reflections on the Work of Ellen Lesperance	0
Thread - An exhibition of Contemporary Textile Practices	0
Kouna ( Schoenoplectus lacustris ): Documentation and Development of Sustainable Handicraft from Manipur	0
Crafting Wellbeing: Exploring the Link Between Textile Craft and Wellbeing	0
The Adaptive and Responsive Practice of Making Black Dyes: A Sensory Ethnography of Mud-Dyeing Practices in Amami Ōshima, Southern Japan	0
The Path of Felt: tradition and Transformation in Kazakh Contemporary Art	0
Made by Many: 50 Years of the Textile Museum of Canada , The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, October 30, 2025 – September 1, 2026	0
Digitizing Heritage: Cultural Traceability of Vietnamese Áo Dài Motifs as Lived Textile Practice	0
On Not Looking Jewish: Visualizing Submerged Memories and Appearances	0
Patterns and Programs: Replication and Creativity in the Place-Based Knitting of Shetland and Ireland	0
Non-Verbal Language of Peshkir Motifs in Turkish Culture: A Case Study of Peshkir Collection in A.R. İzzet Koyunoğlu Museum	0

Contemporary Indigenous Textiles from Australia’s Tropic ZoneContemporary Indigenous Textiles from Australia’s Tropic Zone	0
Fabrications: Using Knitted Artworks to Challenge Developers’ Narratives of Regeneration and Recognise Manchester’s South Asian Working Class Textiles Businesses	0
Jewish Dress through Visual Sources: An Introduction	0
Textile Diplomacy: Young Designers on Bridging Sino-Pak Traditional Textiles	0
Examining How Tactile Defensiveness May Influence Clothing Fabric Perception: A Mixed Method Study	0
Threads of Culture and Looms of Legacy: Honoring the Handloom Heritage	0
A Field and Museum-Based Technical Cultural Analysis of Patola Double Ikat Weaving in Gujarat	0
Looking Out, Looking In: The Poetics of Repaired Clothes	0
The Predicament of Suzhou Embroidery: Implications of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China	0
Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris Deco Dandy: Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris , John Potvin, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 300 pp.	0
Goa’s Traditional Handloom: Kunbi Weaving	0
Maker to Wearer: A Transfer of Intention	0
The Art and Value of Word-Men	0
Flora and Fauna-Based Textile Design with Natural Dyes: Preserving Malay Identity in Riau Songket	0
Clothing the Indian Third Gender in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis	0
The Ulster Tailor 1828–1883: From Shop Boy to Royal Clothier	0
In Conversation With Karie Westermann: “Whose Voices Are Loud? Whose Voices Are Being Heard?” Challenging Ideas About “Tradition” in Knitting	0
Introduction: Creativity in Knitted Textiles in Historical Context	0
The Processing of Used Clothing as a Survival Strategy: The Łódź Ghetto Textile Industry in Official Visual Documents of the Judenrat	0
The Reflection of Ancient Ages Ganos Mountain Byzantine Amphoras on Fabric and Clothing Design	0
Beneath the Surface: The Evolution of Underwear and the Construction of Female Identity in Republic of China (1912–1949)	0
Reweaving Folkness: Kilims and the Affective Reshaping of Contemporary Balkan Traditionality	0
Lesbian Knitting: From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Representation	0
Sustainable Pathway for the Indigenous Aso-òkè Fabric	0
Re-Constellations – The 5th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, September 23 to November 2, 2025	0
“Getting People Interested in Traditional Fabrics and Techniques:” A Case Study of Designers’ Use of Traditional Japanese Textiles for Contemporary Apparel	0
Transforming a Weaving Village into a Tourism Hub for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Study from India	0
Pattern Recognition: Identifying a Gap in the Surface Pattern Design Literature	0
Beyond Phu-Tai Matmii Handwoven Silk Fabric: Weaving Pattern Design, Ancestral Wisdom, and Originality	0
Weaving Climate: Harris Tweed as a Living Map of Environmental Change	0
Jewish Women, English Dress: From Kindertransport to Women in Uniform in Wartime England	0
In Conversation with… Lorna Hamilton-Brown: Who’s Getting a Seat at the Table?	0
In the Quiet Hum of Small Ateliers, Off-Cuts, Threads, and Forgotten Scraps Whisper Their Untold Stories	0
A Hidden Collection Of Yazmacilik (Woodblock Printing) Molds	0
Ehram Fabric Doll Design in the Context of Cultural Sustainability: A Cultural Carrier from Past to Future	0
Tracing the Legacy of Shalwar: From Ottoman Women to Women’s Rights Movements	0
Textile Weaving (Aṣọ-Òkè) at Ologbin-Adewole Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria	0
The Big Rainbow Knit: Revisiting Craftivist Practices through Place-Based Making	0
Interactions with Sound: The Soundscape in Textile Art	0
Styling the “Ivy” Man: Jewish Men as Creators and Consumers of an American Style, 1940–1965	0
A Living Tradition: The Cultural History and Transformation of Crowns in Latvian Dress	0
Stains of Significance: Exploring the Stain as a Carrier of Meaning in Monique Lecouna’s Textile Jewelry	0
Exploring the Traditional Turkish Ucetek Entari of the Late Ottoman Era from the Izmir Ethnography Museum Collection	0
Draped Identities: Semiotics of the Indian Sari in Colonial and Postcolonial Paintings	0
Dinh Q Lê, Photographing the Thread of Memory Dinh Q Lê, Photographing the Thread of Memory , Musee du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris,	0
Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950	0
“An Index of Gentility”: Representations of Needlework inDombey and Son	0
Phad: The Scoping Review of Ritualistic, Performative Audio-Visual Folk Tradition of Rajasthan	0
The “Authenticity Discourse” in Contemporary Application of West African Textiles	0
“To Buy Him a Pair of Gloves”: Glove Etiquette, Fashion Consumption and the Building of Respectable Images in The Newcomes	0
Revitalizing Malaysian Heritage: Identification of Malay Aesthetic Principles in the Bunga Teratai (Lotus) Motif of Block Batik	0
The Afterlife of Early Modern Images of Jews	0
Sustaining Traditions: A Study of Guledgudda Khana Weavers	0
Dyeing and Washing Textiles in Medieval Kashmir: Unraveling the Artistic Techniques and Cultural Significance	0
Weaving Womanhood: Symbolic Representation of Femininity in Keringkam Embroidery of Sarawak	0
Knit is a Four-Letter Word	0
Razzle, Dazzle and the Black Fantastic The Black Fantastic , Nick Cave, The Hayward Gallery, South Bank Center, 29th June–18th September 2022 The Processi	0
The Artistic Legacy of Kashmiri Carpets	0
Beyond Representationalism: The Performative Materialities and Affective Dimension of Lin Tianmiao’s the Proliferation of Thread Winding	0
MOVING THE NEEDLE: The Australian Embroidery Revolution—Conference Review	0
Knitting: The Destructive Yarn-Bomb	0
Risky, Subversive, and Deviant? A Criminological Analysis of Guerrilla Knitting	0
Iranian Zoroastrians: Custodians of the Sasanian Silk Road Heritage to the Present	0
Analyzing Beaded Dress Imagery in Ozioma Onuzulike’s Strings the Length of Our Palm’s Seal. ChertLüdde Gallery, Berlin 12 November 2022–21 January 2023	0
From Underwear to Outerwear: The Influence of Machinery on Creativity and Garment Styling in the Scottish Knitwear Industry, 1920s–1970s	0
Abakanowicz Between Feminism and Medievalism in Public Art. Sculpting Arthurian Narratives and Cultural Reception in Poland	0
‘Odious! In Woollen!’: Death Dress Customs and the Burying in Woolens Act 1666–80	0
Exhibition Review “I Write the Needles Praise” : A Century of Sampler Making, 1630s–1730s, Witney Antiques, November 7–26, 2022	0
Exhibition Review	0
British Textile Biennial: Affirming the Roots of Textiles in East Lancashire and the Contemporary Curatorial Venture	0
Geographical Indications and Handloom Textiles: Insights from Mangalagiri Sarees of India	0
Consumption Pattern and the Factors of the Handloom Weavers in Charghat Upazila of Rajshahi District in Bangladesh	0
Creativity and Design in a Contemporary Knitwear Business: An Interview with Di Gilpin and Sheila Greenwell	0
Silk Fibers for Fashion as Drivers of Regional Development: A Comparison Between Italy and Thailand	0
Embodying the Mind: Anagrammatical Storytelling in Harriet Powers’ Pictorial Quilt II	0
Ushak Carpets in the Ankara Museum of Foundational Works: Structural and HPLC Based Dyestuffs Analysis	0
Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles , Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles , Symmes Gardner, Annet Couwenberg, Caroline Kipp, Lori Rubeling, Mary Savig, Balt	0
The Common Thread. Collected Essays in Honor of Eva Andersson Strand	0
Rozanne Hawksley	0
Textile Memories Textile Memories: Copenhagen, Denmark: HEIRLOOM Center for Art and Archives, 4 November 2022 – 8 January 2023	0
Naga Shawls: Weaving Cultural Narratives and Tribal Identity	0
Can the Saree Speak? Exploring Tradition, Heritage and Beyond	0
Protecting “Paradise”: Anti-Nuclear Textiles in New Zealand	0
This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection	0
Resisting Occupation Through Cultural Nonmovement: Palestinian Embroidery as a Multipurpose Tool	0
Textile Garden , July 15–October 30, 2022, Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungsstrasse, Zürich	0
Janyak: Armenian Art of Knots and Loops	0
Is Upcycling the Best Approach for Designers to Contribute to Sustainable Textile Industry?	0