Below is a list of articles in Craft Culture
regarding fibre.
Sewing All The Way To Here: The Australian Afghani Embroidery Project
by Rhonda Chrisanthou
Shepparton's growing Afghani community embarks on a complex negotation of their new identity through a craft collaboration.
Kate Just and Tamara Marwood: You Make Me Feel
by Stephen Gallagher
Artists form contemporary objects from the legacy of the hand made in Central Victoria
Julia Robinson: The Infernal Cake
by Inga Walton
Julia Robinson reconfigures Dante's epic poem as a grotesque and compelling ‘Infernal Cake'
Peta Carlin Urban Fabric: Greige
by Toby Horrocks
A exhibition brings together photography, architecture and fabric design
Sera Waters
by Pam Zeplin
Flow charts connect the craft of grandmothers to the underworld of vice
Nature through Light
by Humna Mustafa
Material by Product
by Kate Rhodes
A new range by Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald becomes a performance of making, both production and parade, including a focus on tattooed kangaroo leather.
Mary Louise Edwards
by Ramona Barry
From little things, big things grow
Knitting relationships: Experiences in the Philippines
by Cheryl Adams
A well-meaning venture to develop craft with a victim group leads to initial disappointment then unexpected success
Bespoke
by David Craig
A show of handmade objects seems to transcend distinctions of high and low art
Textiles Connection: the loom as a stage for performing community history
by Kirsty Darlaston
A weaver writes about the revealing experience of working in the public eye
Noble Rot - An alternative view of fashion
by Anthony Gardner
Presence of Things: Sense, Veneer and Guise
by Sue Green
An exhibition pairing artists with works of the Embroiderer's Guild produces some stunning results and some loose ends
Artifiction by Annabelle Collette
by Roy Ananda
Responding to the traditional crafts of Pacific cultures, Annabelle Collett generates a new body of work. But how well does it fit into the museum context?
Textile exhibitions for Festival Melbourne2006
by Sue Green
Sport provides an overdue exposure for traditional textiles and new paradigms for collaborative work, that don't always succeed.
Tamara Marwood: Stitching a Line
by Elizabeth Boyce
Bendigo artist takes a thread for a walk around a statue of Queen Victoria
Thrift To Fantasy by Rosemary McLeod
by Sue Green
The other history of New Zealand through its popular needlecraft
Threads
by Elaine Miles
A bold new project to enable collaboration between key craftspersons in the Country Women's Association and contemporary artists, ensuring the survival of local craft knowledge
The Young Telephone Wire Weaver
by Philile Simelane
Lost in Translation? Tactile Collaborations
by Margaret Baguley
Take a tour of the 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
The Knitting Train
by Bridget Cameron
A Matter of Time
by Kate Murphy
Hello Tokyo
by Zoe MacDonnell
An Australian textile artist explores new territory
Tutu: Designing for Dance
by Sue Green
In early 2002, The Australian Ballet commissioned 17 of Australia's top designers to create their interpretation of a tutu to be worn by a dancer of the Australian Ballet. The only guideline was the definition of a tutu: a ballet dancer's short projecting skirt.
Journey to Hill End
by Zoe Macdonnell
A breif stay in a powerful place transforms the practice of a young textile designer
Ties for young women
by Emilie Sinclair
Why the old school tie isn't so old school any more
Ilka White: Whitework
by Rachel Gorman
White in colour, white in heritage, White in name. A new body of work celebrates liberation from expectancy
Body Felt
by Sue Green
A creative collaboration flourishes as the Gold Treasury Museum closes to craft
Warm and Fuzzy
by Emma Morgan
An exploration of felt and feeling
Pins and Needles
by Ramona Barry
Inside the glory box of the NGV
Sue Hiley Harris
An expatriate textile artist shifts her practice from scarves to sculpture, finding inspiration in geometry and nature
Chaco Kato: One day under the window
by Emily Howes
Stitched drawings open a window of fancy
Akira Isagawa in interview with Mayu Kanamori
Fashion designer Akira Isagawa finds creativity and success in the space between cultures
Shirley Cass 'Marking the Stranger'
by Harry Nankin
An exhibition featuring marked clothing alludes to lost souls
Annabelle Collett: United Notions
by Cathy Speck
Adelaide textile artist Annabelle Collet gathers together fellow artists for an exhibition of irony and comment
Holes: Surrounded by Thread
by Sarah Bond
An interesting combination between traditional and contemporary lace requires a little more dialogue
Strong Cloth: East Timor’s Tais
by Sara Niner
East Timorese textile crafts capture the spirit of a newly liberated people.
Journeys to Gujarat
by Jemma Dacre
A textile designer finds a 'rare moment of clarity' in her travels through Kutch
Tactility
by Anne McMahon
An exhibition of indigenous craft at the National Gallery of Australia
Fungi conference
by Holly Story
An international fungi symposium in Denmark, Western Australia, reveals the secret life of the bush floor
Reflections on Work with Tiwi Design
by Stewart Russell
The great potential of collaboration with an indigenous community and the hard realities that sometimes ensue.
The Endless Scarf
by Blyth Toll
Blyth Toll writes about her lifetime project
A stitch in time: Re-inventing the story of the Bayeux Tapestry as set design
by Amanda Johnson
A theatre production of Bayeux tapestry explore contemporary medievalism and the dramatic device of weaving
Cicely & Colin Rigg Award
by Sue Green
An exhibition of textiles misses its craft context
Western Woollies versus Muslim mythologies
by Kate Pears
Muslim women wearing scarves should be respected as a personal choice just the same as other Western fashions
Suburban shawl
by Sherrie Knipe
Sherry Knipe trawls objects in a glamorous fabric.
Tim Gresham by Ramona Barry
by Ramona Barry
A Melbourne weaver takes inspiration from photography
Nicholas Jones folded book
by Danny Fisher
Jazz musician provides a musical response to Nicholas Jones' re-folded book
Serendipity: The Art of Designing for Kutch
by Maggie Baxter
West Australian textile artist tells story of collaboration with Kutch textile printers, and how she taught them to make 'badly'.
Edith Cowan bush camp 2002
by John Parkes
An illustrated account of the legendary West Australian bush camp for textile artists
Wild Nature
by Catherine Speck
A beautiful exhibition of work using indigenous materials rests on a questionable concept of nature.
Fold
by Alex Selenitsch
The fold is explored as a design, creative, craft and emotional device in an exhibition curated by Robyn Phelan.
Louiseann Zahra
by Sarah Bond
This stunning exhibition of delicate macabre works heralds an exciting maker
Tali Ikat: Fibre Connections
Indonesian exhibition on fibre artist with participants from south-east Asia, USA, Netherlands and Australia
Opening speech to Immigrants Garden
by Leigh Warren
Opening speech for an exhibition of work by India Flint and Stephanie Radock
Immigrants Garden
by Cath Kenneally
An Adelaide show of painting and textiles that offers a balm to the spirit
The Alice Springs Beanie Festival
by Kevin Murray
A unique craft event brings together Aboriginal and non-indigenous Australia, under the common beanie. But there are problems…
Fabrications: text and textiles conference
by Dorothy Jones
A conference at Wollongong university looks at the links between text and textile crafts in the colonial experience.
The Knitting Revolution
by Sue Green
Sue Green looks at the upsurge of interest in knitting by aritsts, celebrities and those seeking refuge from September 11.
Why I use felt
by Stephen Gevers
Stephen Gevers talks about his way of making sculptures in felt
Acid Weave by KT Doyle
by Kaye Ashton
'Much as the rug is a transportable item, KT transports her background in weave, into the digital environment.'
Home is Where the Heart Is (review)
by Juliet Peers
Juliet Piers heralds the radical critique in an exhibition of work inspired by the CWA, curated by Vivonne Thwaites.
Threads of hope
by Dawn Delaney
'Each of Timor's thirteen districts is culturally and linguistically unique with their own techniques, symbols, motifs and weaving styles.'
Notes from 2045
by Sue Green
...a mix of the old—a scholar’s hat, bags, thimbles, a child’s traditional sock—and new—face masks, a doorknob cover, a mobile phone cover, workmen’s gloves, children’s slippers.
Korean Commemorative Quilts
by Meredith Rowe
Melbourne textile artist talks about Korean re-use of fabric scraps and its relation to Australia folk traditions
