ONLINE: Textiles From Home: Local Crafts, Global Conversations
Mar 14, 2021 to
Interdisciplinary textile artist Bisa Butler in front of her work The Warmth of Other Sons.
Anyone interested in the fiber arts should explore this multi-day conference from the Center for Design and Material Culture at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology. Presentations focus on connections between textile making, domestic space, and local environments, historically and now, and include sessions on such of-the-moment crazes as artful mending, embroidery, women in fiber mills, and Scottish wool. The keynote is from the extraordinary quilt portrait artist Bisa Butler, March 18 at 4 pm. Find the remaining events and sign-ups
March 31, 2021 25 Minutes
This week we are starting the first of a four (?) part look at pre-modern textile production. As with our series on farming and iron, we are going to follow the sequence of production from the growing of fibers all the way to the finished object, with a focus not merely on the methods of production but also
on the people doing the producing at each stage of production. Now while I have titled this series, “Clothing, How Did They Make It?” it is worth noting that textiles were used for a lot more than just clothing. All sorts of household goods were produced this way. In addition, of course, clothing was sometimes made out of non-textile materials (although, as we’ve discussed, far less often than is portrayed in popular culture; in Eurasia, by and large, clothing meant textiles).
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mukesh ambani hasn t given a television interview in almost a decade. he never let television cameras into his 17-floor tower. he is the chairman of india s largest company, reliance industries which his father started in 1980 making textiles. today their revenues come mostly from energy, though they re making big bets in retail and telecommunications, as well. tell me, you have a vantage point to look at the global economy. you run india s largest company. where do you think we are five years after the financial crisis began? well, i am more optistic than most. my view is that the beginning of