Textile printing is alive and thriving. As are all the other forms of textile expression that are currently picking up the threads and revitalizing historical waves – from 1960s fibre art to the wild textile printing of the 1980s. The contemporary Danish textile scene is as vibrant as ever.
Seventy-eight podcasts about clothing and textile told in twelve different languages. That is just one of the outcomes of the project The Fabric of My Life, in which team of researchers from Germany, Greece and Denmark focused on migration, clothing and memories. The EU-funded partnership, which ran from 2019 to 2022, involved museums, education […]
Who preserves the site-specific textile artworks? Who communicates about textiles - historically and in the present? Who looks after the invisible knowledge that lies in the work of the hand, the silent knowledge?
You only need to look carefully at any piece of textile to see the theme of this issue of Formkraft: fibres + connectedness = textile. Whether fibres are being spun, woven, crocheted, knitted, braided or felted, the purpose is the same: binding a vast number of tiny fibres close together in formations that now […]
Karen Grøn (museum director, Trapholt) puts into words the value of the community, the potentials of the textile profession and an embracing dissemination that breaks all previous frameworks for audience involvement. Trapholt has found new paths during the corona shutdowns.
Textile variation at Udstillingssted for Tekstil Our next destination is Udstillingssted for Tekstil (Exhibition Venue for Textile) and the new exhibition Blooomingtooon with works by textile artists Jette Hartvig, Anita Bracalente and Isabel Berglund.
As a weaver, she keeps the threads tight, and as a textile artist she works uniquely with the sculptural potential of threads and the possibilities of colour. But in the three new works created at Biblioteket Rentemestervej in Copenhagen NV, Sofia Hagström Møller has shared the art production with three different groups of children […]
Why do many thousands of people follow when the Danish designer and influencer Lærke Bagger posts knitting photos on instagram daily? Weaver and folk high school teacher Hanne Lange Houlberg looks at the textile community around Lærke Bagger as a framework for freedom, commitment and pattern breaking.
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Two trips to Mexico have had a crucial impact on the textile artist's expression. In this interview, she talks about her fascination with Mexican visual culture.
In this 504-page treatise, Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, senior researcher and head of the Textile and Dress Collection at the National Museum of Denmark, and Marie Riegels Melchior, PhD, associate professor at the Saxo Institute, present the history of Danish fashion, including a cornucopia of paintings, photographs, newspaper clippings, copperplates, reliefs and everyday photos of […]
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