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TF 3/99 Textile Routes

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TF : 56 pages, 32 high quality colour pages, A4 format (German edition: 64 pages)
Most of the articles are presented with complete contact addresses.

Textile Routes

Brief description of the project 'Textile Routes', by Christian Grüßen
Museums in the context of European Textile Routes, by Dietmar Laue
Museum-based Textile Routes - A model study, by Ingelore Pohl

Information on ten planned Textile Contact Points (TCP's):
The Netherlands/Tilburg: Nederlands Textielmuseum
Piedmont/Chieri: Fondazione Chierese per il Tessile e per il Museo del Tessile
Berlin: Deutsches Technikmusuem, department of textile technology
Portugal/Lisbon: Museu Nacional do Traje
Finland/Jyväskylä: Suomen Käsityön Museo
Austria/Vienna: Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde
Slovenia/Ljubljana: Slovenski etnografski muzej
St. Petersburg: State Russian Ethnographic Museum
Belgium/Flanders: Stedelikjke Musea van Antwerpen
Great Britain/London: Embroiderers' Guild Museum

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Preview of events

Calendar of international events

Textile Forum magazine is known for its complete quarterly calendar. For the fourth quarter of 1999, 222 current exhibitions are listened. 34 specialized meetings resp. further educational opportunities and 15 competitions

Calendar of regional events

The German edition has a calendar of more than 69 additional exhibitions, meetings/courses, competitions and fairs/markets in German speaking countries.

Some selected event previews

One fair, four contests and five specialised further educational opportunities resp. specialised meetings are noted in detail, with their entry, submission resp. application condititons, dates and complete addresses.

Exhibitions - Detailes and/or illustrated articles

Kirghiz Felt Carpets, exhibtions from mid-October to 22 December 1999 in the Ethno-Textil-Galerie, Bremen/D
Men's Clothes from Japan, old firemen's cloaks and shopkeeper's smocks from the Sumi Collection, from 6. Oct. to 28 Nov. 1999
'De Line de Lan' - Traditional costumes, from 27 July to 17 Oct. 1999 in Terassa/Spain
Clowns: Costumes, Sequins and Accessories, from 15 April to 15 Nov. 1999 in the Ecomusée de la Montagne Noire in the south-west of France
Michael Brennand-Wood retrospective, from 24 July to 17 Oct. 1999 in the Bankfield Museum in Halifax/UK
Helena Hernmarck "Monumental and Intimate", tapestries, from 2 Oct. to 5 Dec. 1999 in Stockholm
Textile art exhibitions in Moscow, from October to November '99
Northern FibreIII with "Hidden Treasures", from 4 Sept. to 28 Nov. 1999 in Herning/DK
'Trees and Demons', tapestries by Annette Graae, from 10 Sept. to 3 Oct. 1999 in Copenhagen
Braided pieces by Carole Simard-Laflamme, from 27 July to 14 Nov. 1999 in Angers/F
Tutankhamun's Wardrobe, exhibition from 8 Oct. '99 to 27. Jan. 2000 in Borås/S
Bags and Handkerchiefs, from 2 June to 9 Oct. 1999 in St. Gallen/CH
ITNET 2000: Tapestries from the Millenium, Internet presentation from late summer on
Peter Collingwood, weavings, from 8 Oct. '99 to 23 Jan. 2000 in Washington D.C./USA
Fashion design by Yoshiki Hishinuma, exhibition from 26 June to 26. Sept. 1999 in Den Haag/NL
Miniature textile art in Mexico, from 23 Sept. to 7 Nov. 1999 in Quéretaro/MEX
Fibre Art at the 48th Venice Biennial, report by Renata Pompas (until 7 Nov. 1999)
Flexible III: 'Close to the Body', from June '99 to Sept. 2000 in four countries, in Linz/A, Wroclaw/PL, Tilburg/NL and Manchester/UK
'Fiberart International '99', from 9 Sept. to 30 Oct. 1999 in Pittsburgh/USA
Quilts by Joan Schulze, from 9 Sept. to 9 Oct. 1999 in Cologne
Cloth objects and installations by Günter Schuster, from 9 Sept. to 5 Nov. 1999 in Osnabrück

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Reports

Special reports

Culture and Crafts of the Sami of Lapland, by Beatrijs Sterk
Constructivism to Art Deco - Sovjet Textiles of the 20s and 30s, by Marina Blumin
Navajo Weaving Today, by D.Y. Begay

Reports of selected events

The 4th Intl. Tapestry Festival in Beauvais, by Anka Kröhnke and Hanno Jochimsen
Katarina Zavarska, tapestries, in winter '98/99 in Bratislava/SK
The 4th Baltic Biennial of Miniature Textiles, in summer '99 in Gdynia/PL
'Intertextuality' - The intl. design exhibition '99 in Osaka/Japan
The 3rd 'Talents' Triennial, in winter '98/99 in Bratislava/SK
Notes on ITMA - Intl. Textile Machinery and Accessories fair ^99, report by Vibeke Vestby
Finnish textile art exhibitions in summer '99, a.o. 'Sidos 2000', 'Living Waters' and 'Nordic Textile Art'
The 3rd Annual International Festival of Textile Design in Taegu, Korea, report by Carol D. Westfall
'Bodywork VII' - Exhibition by artists of the Women's University in Seoul, on show in Cologne
Charlemagne - The Father of Europe?, Art and culture during the time of the Carolingians, until 1st January 2000 in Paderborn/D, later on in Barcelona, Brescia, Split and York (until autumn 2001)

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Other subjects

Book reviews

The Mummies of Ürümchi, Elizabeth W. Barber, New York 1999
Leinendamaste (Linen Damasks), editor: Regula Schorta, Riggisberg/CH 1999
Linen on Net - The common roots of European linen patterns, editors: Paolo Moro and Giorgio Ferigo, Tolmezzo/I 1999
Amazonen der Avantgarde (Amazons of the avantgarde) - Six russian artists, editors of the catalogue: John E. Bowl and Matthew Drutt, Berlin 1999

Brief notes

TEN - Textile Environmental Network, Manchester
Mass-produced clothing for the handicapped, Münster/D
Weawing project in Sweden

Letters

Amarras, Plangi and Shibori, by Dr. Gisela Lautz

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