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Wearing My Heart On My Sleeve, Sam Hunter

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Wearing My Heart On My Sleeve is a collection of fabric and fiber works that focus on issues related to my recovery from a heart attack. Using the hospital gown and other garment forms as templates for self-portraiture, I explore the emotions surrounding the diagnosis and subsequent management of my chronic health condition. My art-making process combines tradition and technology, using modern, high-speed sewing machines and computers to create the fabric for contemporary interpretations of traditional garment and needlecraft forms. I am also concerned with the use of language and words as critical design elements for the fabrics I create. …

Blanket Statements, Issue 99, Spring 2010

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 99, Spring 2010

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 22:2 — Spring/Summer 2010, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

A Feast of Options Awaits Symposium Attendees in October [Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space, 12th Biennial Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 6–9, 2010]
From the President
TSA News
TSA Member News
In Memoriam: Natalie K. A. Rothstein, 1930–2010; Patricia J. Williams, 1944–2010; Stephen M. Beal, 1939–2010
Collections News
Textile Community News
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Publication News
Calls for Papers
Calendar-Conferences & Symposia, Exhibitions, Tours, Lectures & Workshops

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 22:1 — Winter 2010, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Symposium Planners Announce Native American Program Focus [Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space the Cyber Space, 12th Biennial Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 6–9, 2010]
From the President
TSA News
TSA Member News
Book Reviews
Tour Reviews
Textile News
Events Calendar-Conferences & Symposia, Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Publication News

Kitab Al-Hadaya Wa Al-Tuhaf: A Unique Window On Islamic Textiles, Wendy Landry

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During the first millennium, a rare kind of literature evolved in the Islamic world that provides a fascinating window on the interest and importance of material objects. A unique example of this literature, entitled Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf [Book of Gifts and Rarities] was translated into English, annotated and published in 1996 by Kuwaiti curator and scholar Ghada al Hijjawi al-Qaddumi. It is an anthology of anecdotes referring to the period between the sixth century and the twelfth century, probably compiled in the late twelfth century by an official in the Islamic Egyptian government.

Although the historical veracity of the …

Figured Velvets From Simple Looms: Velvet Pick-Up And Related Techniques For Handweavers, Wendy Landry

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Much historical velvet was designed to be figural, often in elaborate curvilinear floral motifs, and multiple colours. These complex patterns could be efficiently designed for and executed on the available drawlooms and their successors, the jacquard looms. Faced with such complexity, and the unavailability of jacquard looms and drawlooms, few handweavers have attempted to add velvet technique to their repertoire. However, the basic principles and weave structures of velvet are relatively simple and can be executed on simpler handlooms. Pick-up techniques and simple loom modifications make figured velvet accessible for weavers without access to complex jacquard velvet looms, allowing them …

Blanket Statements, Issue 102, Winter 2010–2011

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 102, Winter 2010–2011

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 31 (2010), Laurel Horton, Virginia Gunn, Anita B. Loscalzo, Nao Nomura, Pamela Weeks, Jonathan Gregory, Jane Przybysz

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Laurel Horton

McCall's Role in the Early Twentieth-Century Quilt Revival by Virginia Gunn

Prussian Blue: The Development of a Colorant and Its Use in Textiles Anita B. Loscalzo

The Development of Quiltmaking in Japan since the 1970s by Nao Nomura

"One Foot Square, Quilted and Bound": A Study of Potholder Quilts by Pamela Weeks

Wrapped in Meanings: Quilts for Families of Soldiers Killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars by Jonathan Gregory

Bay Area Beginnings: The American Quilt Study Group and the Twentieth-Century California Fiber Art Movement by Jane Przybysz

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