Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research
The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essential to the exploration of the
textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. The second edition brings together
lectures catalogue essays academic articles fiction and poetry as well as several articles
available in English translation for the first time to capture the diversity of voices
informing textile studies today. Content is organized around the themes of touch memory
structure politics and production plus a new section exploring the role of community. With 22
new contributors this revised edition includes selected work from Maria Fusco Ursula le Guin
Elaine Igoe Faith Ringgold and T'ai Smith. Extended introductions and annotated suggestions
for further reading by the editor Jessica Hemmings make the second edition an invaluable
resource to students of textiles craft and material culture.
