The Textile Reader

Introduction 1. Touch 1. Victoria Mitchell (1997) 'Textiles, Text and Techne' 2. T'ai Smith (2014) 'The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography' (excerpt) 3. Elaine Igoe (2010) 'The Tacit-Turn: Textile design in design research' 4. Pennina Barnett (1999) 'Folds, Fragments, Surfaces: Towards a poetics of cloth' 5. Catherine Harper (2005) "Meditation on Translation and Seduction" 6. Isak Dinesen (1957) 'The Blank Page' 7. Birgitta Nordström (2020) 'How do you Footnote a Smile? One Dialog about Two Extremes of Textile Research' 2. Memory 8. Jenni Sorkin (2000) 'Stain: On Cloth, Stigma, and Shame' 9. Isabel Cristina González Arango (2013/2021) 'Claiming the Right to Memory, Stitch by Stitch: The experience of the Costurero Tejedoras por la Memoria de Sonsón' (the Sonsón Memory Sewing Group) 10. Marit Paasche (2019) 'We Are Living on a Star' (excerpt) 11. Roger Hutchinson (2011) The Silent Weaver (excerpt) 12. Faith Ringgold (2019) 'Interview: Faith Ringgold and Hans Ulrich Obrist' (excerpt) 13. Sue Prichard (2005) 'Collecting the Contemporary: Love Will Decide What Is Kept and Science Will Decide How It Is Kept' 14. Sarah Scaturro (2020) '(Im)mortal Fashion: Iris van Herpen's "Skeleton" Dress' 15. Takahashi Mizuki (2019) 'Hong Kong's Textile Industrial Heritage: Transformations to a place of weaving creative experiences for all' 3. Structure 16. Gottfried Semper (1851/1989) 'The Four Elements of Architecture' (excerpt) 17. Philip Beesley (1999) 'Reflexive Textile' 18. Otti Berger and Judith Raum (1930/2019) 'Fabrics in Space' & 'Weaving and Interior Design': Voice-over for the video Discussion of Material (excerpt) 19. Catherine de Zegher (1997) 'Ouvrage: Knot a Not, Notes as Knots' 20. Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (1987) '1440 The Smooth & the Striated' (excerpt) 21. Sabrina Gschwandtner (2008) 'Knitting Is.' 22. Kate Goldsworthy, Rebecca Earley and Kay Politowicz (2019) 'Circular Speeds: A Review of Fast & Slow Sustainable

Jessica Hemmings is Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is Visiting Professor with the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary (2022), the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020-2023 and a member of the editorial boards of Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture and Craft Research. Jessica is the author of Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (2008), Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the editor of In the Loop: Knitting Now (2012) and Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury, 2014).