No 26
June 2006

Anne Wanner-JeanRichard
e-mail: wanner@datacomm.ch
homepage http://www.annatextiles.ch

GENERAL INFORMATIONS ABOUT TEXTILES:

• TEXTILE ART BERLIN 2006: www.textile-art-berlin.de, 17 and 18 June 2006
• Needle and Thread Fair, 5th International Embroidery competition, Osnabrück from 15 until 17 September 2006, participation fee is Euro 40, Deadline 15 August 2006, http://www.osnabrueck.de/stadthalle/43372.htm
  

M E E T I N G S

• Historische Textilien aus Kirchen und Klöstern, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Koeln, Studientag am 15. Juni 2006
• TICCIH TEXTILE MEETING (the international Committee for the Conservation of the industrial Heritage), 8 until 10 June 2006 in Sedan and Mouzon/North of France. The area is a historic wool-processing centre with textile-industrial monuments. Registration address: Alain Renard, Treasurer of CREPI, 2 rue Saint Denis, F-08210 Mouzon, e-mail: alain.renard@gmail.com
  Organiser: APIC together with CREPI: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/crepi/index1.htm
• Unlocking the Trunk: Collections, Collectors and Collecting, 32nd Annual Symposium of the Costume Society of America, Hartford, CT, May 31st - June 3rd 2006
  A new informal forum for living history on Friday June 2nd: for more information contact Ann Wass (AnnBWass@aol.com) by April 15, 2006
• LEEDS: sessions on talking about textiles
  The International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9th to 13th July 2006. Sessions on Talking about Textiles and Transforming Textiles are organised by Dr Gale Owen Crocker. Details can be obtained on http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2006.html or by postmail from IMC, Parkinson 1.03, University of Leeds LS29TJ
• Scythia 6, Kherson/Ukraine, international meeting on contemporary textile art, from 14th to 18th June 2006. Contact: anschnei@public.kherson.ua http://anschnei.public.kherson.ua
• Textiles and Text, organised by AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, address: Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8DL, UK, e-mail C.G.Bennett@soton.ac.uk deadline for registration: 1 June 2006 http://www.costumesociety.org.uk/newstuff/News/textilesandtext.html on 11 to 13 July 2006
• Manchester: clothing ion the Near East to AD 1600
  The Biennial Conference is organised by the Early Textile Study Group, 8 - 10 September 2006, at Ashburne Hall, the University of Manchester. Information: Miss Frances Pritchard, Textrile Department, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Universiity of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M 15 6 ER, Grande-Bretagne, e-mail: frances.pritchard@manchester.ac.uk
• "Narratives and Conservations", 10th Symposium of the Textile Society of America (TSA),
  11 until 14 October 2006, Toronto Canada. Contact: Frances Dorsay, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 5163 Duke Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3J6 (call for paper's deadline was already on 1 December 2005)
• "Uniforms: yesterday, today and tomorrow", The Royal Military Museum in Brussels (Belgium) will host the next ICOMAM symposium, with a meet and greet on October 17 and a post symposium activity on October 21, the event is scheduled for October 18 - 20, 2006
  Please return registration form by 15 December 2005 to symposium2006@klm-mra.be
• London: meeting at the Courtauld Institute of Art:
  The Medieval Dress and Textile Society, in its bulletin of January 2006 announced the following meeting at the Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House, Strand, www.medats.org.uk
  28 October: Aspects of European Embroidery in Late Middle Ages
• Hyderabad: International Symposium and Workshop on Natural Dyes
  The UNESCO is organising, in collaboration with the Crafts Council of India, an international Symposium and Workshop on Natural Dyes which will take place in Hyderabad from 6 to 12 November 2006, French and English will be the working languages.
  Dominique Cardon is coordinator of the Symposium. For informatiob, contact Mr Indrassen Vencatachellum, Division des arts et de l'entreprise culturelle, UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France, fax:(+33) (0) 1.45.68.57.55, e-mail: vencatachellum@unesco.org
• "Reinventions: Artists and Tapestry", 2nd Symposium of the Victoria Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, in 2008, Contact: Di Macleod, e-mail: dmacleod@victapestry.com.au
  

E X H I B I T I O N S :

• Europäische Stickereien aus der Sammlung des Deutschen Textilmuseums, 1650 - 1850, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, 21 May until 20 August 2006
• Woven Gold, Metal threads in textile art, Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland, 30 April until 12 November 2006
• Gioielli di Filo - merletti delle Collezioni Pubbliche, Palazzo Bianco, Genova, Italy, from 12 April 2006
• Paradiesische Paramente - Paradiesische Kulissen, Benediktinerstift Admont, A-8911 Admont, April 2 until 5 November 2006
• "l'art du fil dans l'art actuel", Ecomusée de l’Avesnois, Fourmies, France, 17 march until 26 november 2006
• Harpies, Mermaids and Tulips, Embroideries of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region, Textile Museum, Washington USA, 17 March untl 3 September 2006
• Tore zum Paradies, Symbolik islamischer Textilkunst, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, München, Germany, from 24 November 2005 until 29 October 2006
• Fragile Remnants, Egyptian Textiles of Late Antiquity and Early Islam, MAK, Vienna, 7 December 2005 until 5 June 2006
• "STITCH" the biennial exhibition presented by the Guild in collaboration with Coats Crafts UK, and accompanied by "SCHOLAR" the retrospective show of work from Guild Scholars since 1995, beginning at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol from 14 May to 18 June 2006, touring later to Sleaford and Birkenhead - http://www.embroiderersguild.com/
• "In Our Time" a celebration of the Guild's centenary, beginning at the Knitting & Stitching Show in Birmingham from 14 to 17 September, touring in London, Dublin and Harrogate - http://www.embroiderersguild.com/
• Embroidered History - Stitched Lives: Samplers & Needlework from the Historic Deerfield Collection, 1670-1830, at Historic Deerfield’s Flynt Center, USA, September 9, 2005, scheduled to run through 2006
  

B O O K R E V I E W S :

books and articles since January 2006

Un mobilier à décor brodé de "chinoiseries" au château de Fontainebleau, par Danièle Véron-Denise, dans: La Revue des Musée de France, Revue du Louvre, 2 - avril 2006, p. 63 - 70

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