Happy New Year to all our wonderful Caring for Textiles readers! We hope the start of this year brings you joy, creativity, and lots of inspiration in your textile journeys. At Caring for Textiles, we swap books and talk about them as we stitch. Here are some of our favorite textile-tomes from the last 4 […]
A Day in the Life at the Studio
By Annabel Dobbyn Photograph by Sarah Goolishian When I tell strangers that I work in a textile conservation studio, I know exactly what will happen. A blank look eclipses their face. The whites of their eyes blow open and then they narrow. They unhinge their jaws and ask: what? It is a bit thrilling, possessing […]
The Warp and Weft of it: The Interwoven Lives of Clarence King Not your ordinary linen hand towel……..
by Annabel Dobbyn There is a man. He only rides in first class train cars. He is the most charming man at the Century Club, and he is only friends with the most important moneyed people, DC political powerhouses. This man stands tall and prideful over the Sierra Nevadas, shifting the earth between his fingers. […]
Conserving Amish quilts for Smithsonian American Art Museum
By Julia M Brennan & Caring for Textiles Team Saturday June 8 & August 10 Caring for Textiles is hosting a quilt care & repair clinic, and tour of the exhibition “Pattern & Paradox”. Click here to register. Yet, we came to know each maker by her needle skills, sense of color and eye, her […]
Senator Kelly’s Spacesuit
By Annabel Dobbyn The year is 2016. Beyonce’s Lemonade comes out, the beloved David Bowie passes on, and American politicians are at each other’s throats. Now open twitter, not X, and see that one of the top trending videos is a gorilla. No, not Harambe, the gorilla shot and killed at the Cincinnati zoo. This […]
Conserving Mother Seton’s dancing slippers – America’s first saint
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was a Catholic sister and founder of Saint Joseph’s Academy and Free School, the first Catholic girls’ school in America, Emmitsburg, MD, 1810. She dedicated her life to the care of children, the poor, and her school. In 1975 she was the first American canonized as a saint. Mother Seton […]
The textiles that bind us – in memory of Mike Heffner, 1967-2023
How many of you have a beloved sweater, jeans, or your mother’s shirt or father’s scarf? Textiles can be transformative, alive, sharing their stories by context, memory, and touch. A baseball cap might be just a baseball cap until your hero signs it. You now hold what the other person once held. A central principle […]
Multicolores Textile Arts by Guatemalan women
Go see this before October 1, 2023! What a joy to meet Reyna Pretzantzin Chipix, creative director of the Multicolores cooperative! Reyna, in her gorgeous huipil and handwoven ikat skirt, eyes sparkling, personifies the vision, tenacity, creativity, and humanism of this successful grassroots art organization. Please visit the Amy Koslow Gallery in Bethesda before October […]
A Special GoFundMe appeal…
A personal message & call to action from Julia… Help us preserve these textiles. Over the last 23 years, I have collaborated with and trained the conservation team at the Textile Museum in Bhutan. We spent many weeks in monasteries doing inventories and assisting monk caretakers in preserving fragile textile collections. In fact, every person I […]
Time Traveling with TWA!
Here’s a blast from my childhood when we used to fly through Kennedy Airport NYC in the 1960’s & 70’s… The restored TWA terminal + hotel is like stepping back in time – in space, light, clothing, the click-click sound of the flight boards, a huge central clock, the beauty of the airplanes…awe, wonder, the […]
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