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Fiber & Form: SDA’s 2026 Symposium | Feb 7-12
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
Experience an immersive fiber art retreat at the Estelle Center for Creative Arts in stunning La Veta, Colorado.
Fiber retreats registration is now open for:
✨Patricia Belyea Creativity and Inserted Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - April 19-24
✨Daisy Aschehoug Foundation Paper Curves 5-day Quilting Retreat - June 15-19
✨Make the Fabric, Make the Garment with Bianca Springer and Stephanie Ruyle 5-day Sewing Retreat - July 13-17
✨Jamie Kalvestran - Quilt Like an Artist: Faces and Figures 5-day Quilting Retreat - July 20-24
✨Color Camp with Karla Overland and Elaine Poplin 4-day Quilting Retreat featuring Cherrywood Fabrics - August 25-28
✨Atsushi Futatsuya - 5 Day Japanese Sashiko Stitching Retreat - September 14-18
✨ April Sproule - Printed and Stitched Mixed Media 5-day Immersion Retreat, August 10-14
✨Carolina Oneto - Imaginary Places 5-day Quilting Retreat, October 19-23
Learn more at estellecreativearts.com or check the link in our bio for registration
📣 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE OPPORTUNITY! We want to support early, mid-career and established fiber artists as you undertake studio projects that inspire artistic growth. Held virtually over the course of a year, we're removing barriers allowing those of you who might otherwise be unable to attend an in-person residency to participate.
With a stipend of $4,000 you'll be woven into SDA programming all while your studio time is supported by our vast community rooting for you along the way.
There is no application fee but you must be a member of SDA to apply. This program is made possible by a generous grant from Lenore G. Tawney Foundation.
Learn more and apply by August 14th at the link in our bio
Andrea Brewster is a SDA Member whose work is featured in the Exposure section of our latest journal, Traditions and Techniques in Lace. To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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📸: Andrea Brewster (Oakland, California, U.S.), The Fragile Balance That Lies Beneath #3, 2023. 3D printing pen, smooth poly-filament and
alcohol inks, 13 x 10 inches. Photo by the artist. @abrewster698
Reframing Lace: From Ornament to Discourse by Asia Graziano: “In contemporary art, however, lace has been reactivated as a critical medium, one capable of addressing questions of power, embodiment, labor and cultural memory. Artists such as Ghada Amer, Anne Wilson, Cal Lane and Piper Shepard—all women—engage lace not merely as material or motif, but as a conceptual framework through which inherited hierarchies of gender, craft and value can be examined and reconfigured.” @ghadaamer @annewilsonartist @cal_lane_artist @piper_shepard
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Piper Shepard, Lacing Space I (detail), 2012.
2) Ghada Amer, Borqa, 1997.
3) Anne Wilson, Topologies (3-5.02) (detail), 2002.
4) Cal Lane, Hood #8, 2015.
Reframing Lace: From Ornament to Discourse by Asia Graziano: “In contemporary art, however, lace has been reactivated as a critical medium, one capable of addressing questions of power, embodiment, labor and cultural memory. Artists such as Ghada Amer, Anne Wilson, Cal Lane and Piper Shepard—all women—engage lace not merely as material or motif, but as a conceptual framework through which inherited hierarchies of gender, craft and value can be examined and reconfigured.” @ghadaamer @annewilsonartist @cal_lane_artist @piper_shepard
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Piper Shepard, Lacing Space I (detail), 2012.
2) Ghada Amer, Borqa, 1997.
3) Anne Wilson, Topologies (3-5.02) (detail), 2002.
4) Cal Lane, Hood #8, 2015.
Reframing Lace: From Ornament to Discourse by Asia Graziano: “In contemporary art, however, lace has been reactivated as a critical medium, one capable of addressing questions of power, embodiment, labor and cultural memory. Artists such as Ghada Amer, Anne Wilson, Cal Lane and Piper Shepard—all women—engage lace not merely as material or motif, but as a conceptual framework through which inherited hierarchies of gender, craft and value can be examined and reconfigured.” @ghadaamer @annewilsonartist @cal_lane_artist @piper_shepard
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Piper Shepard, Lacing Space I (detail), 2012.
2) Ghada Amer, Borqa, 1997.
3) Anne Wilson, Topologies (3-5.02) (detail), 2002.
4) Cal Lane, Hood #8, 2015.
Reframing Lace: From Ornament to Discourse by Asia Graziano: “In contemporary art, however, lace has been reactivated as a critical medium, one capable of addressing questions of power, embodiment, labor and cultural memory. Artists such as Ghada Amer, Anne Wilson, Cal Lane and Piper Shepard—all women—engage lace not merely as material or motif, but as a conceptual framework through which inherited hierarchies of gender, craft and value can be examined and reconfigured.” @ghadaamer @annewilsonartist @cal_lane_artist @piper_shepard
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Piper Shepard, Lacing Space I (detail), 2012.
2) Ghada Amer, Borqa, 1997.
3) Anne Wilson, Topologies (3-5.02) (detail), 2002.
4) Cal Lane, Hood #8, 2015.
Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 2PM EDT on Zoom for (Un)Seen Labor: Motherhood and Care. What is the value of care? Whose labor is seen, and how does loss impress itself into our bodies? Fiber artists Cassie Arnold @cassiearnoldfiberart and Catherine Reinhart @catherine_reinhart_studio will discuss their artistic practice in relationship to carework, grief, and haptic (hand) practices.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio
Textile Talks are a collaboration between the Surface Design Association, The International Quilt Museum @internationalquiltmuseum, Quilt Alliance @quiltalliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates @saqaart. ✨
Liminal Threads: Towards a Global Definition of Laceby Elena Kanagy -Loux @erenanaomi : “The question of how to define lace is deceptively simple, yet the deeper one delves into the recesses of lace research, the more difficult it becomes to answer. Unlike woven textiles, for example, which vary widely but are unified by the perpendicular warp and weft, lace does not refer to any one technique or structure. Rather, lace is an umbrella term for openwork textiles made using a range of methods that are associated with one another for primarily aesthetic reasons. Many definitions of lace are characterized by absence, including my own, which is that lace is a textile in which the pattern is defined by the spaces between threads.”
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Maker unknown, Handmade ñandutí lace, acquired in 1986 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2) Maker unknown, Armenian janyak mat, Ca. 1900.
3) Maker unknown, Panel with Peonies and Butterfly, Ca. late 14th–15th century China.
Liminal Threads: Towards a Global Definition of Laceby Elena Kanagy -Loux @erenanaomi : “The question of how to define lace is deceptively simple, yet the deeper one delves into the recesses of lace research, the more difficult it becomes to answer. Unlike woven textiles, for example, which vary widely but are unified by the perpendicular warp and weft, lace does not refer to any one technique or structure. Rather, lace is an umbrella term for openwork textiles made using a range of methods that are associated with one another for primarily aesthetic reasons. Many definitions of lace are characterized by absence, including my own, which is that lace is a textile in which the pattern is defined by the spaces between threads.”
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Maker unknown, Handmade ñandutí lace, acquired in 1986 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2) Maker unknown, Armenian janyak mat, Ca. 1900.
3) Maker unknown, Panel with Peonies and Butterfly, Ca. late 14th–15th century China.
Liminal Threads: Towards a Global Definition of Laceby Elena Kanagy -Loux @erenanaomi : “The question of how to define lace is deceptively simple, yet the deeper one delves into the recesses of lace research, the more difficult it becomes to answer. Unlike woven textiles, for example, which vary widely but are unified by the perpendicular warp and weft, lace does not refer to any one technique or structure. Rather, lace is an umbrella term for openwork textiles made using a range of methods that are associated with one another for primarily aesthetic reasons. Many definitions of lace are characterized by absence, including my own, which is that lace is a textile in which the pattern is defined by the spaces between threads.”
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From our Spring 2026 Surface Design Journal: Traditions and Techniques in Lace! To get your copy follow our link in bio!
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1) Maker unknown, Handmade ñandutí lace, acquired in 1986 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2) Maker unknown, Armenian janyak mat, Ca. 1900.
3) Maker unknown, Panel with Peonies and Butterfly, Ca. late 14th–15th century China.
Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 2PM EDT on Zoom for (Un)Seen Labor: Motherhood and Care. What is the value of care? Whose labor is seen, and how does loss impress itself into our bodies? Fiber artists Catherine Reinhart @catherine_reinhart_studio and Cassie Arnold @cassiearnoldfiberart will discuss their artistic practice in relationship to carework, grief, and haptic (hand) practices.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio
Textile Talks are a collaboration between the Surface Design Association, The International Quilt Museum @internationalquiltmuseum, Quilt Alliance @quiltalliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates @saqaart. ✨
🌻 Our Spring Surface Design Journal, Traditions and Techniques in Lace is here! 🌻
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"Exploring vast historical and material contexts, our Traditions & Techniques journals are always some of our most inspiring issues. Lace is no exception. The history of lace is one rich in luxury, ornamentation and skill. Like many textile techniques, lacemaking has seen a significant resurgence in conceptual and material recontextualization." –Lauren Sinner, Surface Design Journal Managing & Interim Editor @kritzrackerz
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Read the digital journal with a current membership at the link in our bio
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Cover artwork 📸: Magdalena Sophie Orland, BETWEEN_SPACES @magdalena_sophie_orland
Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 2PM EDT on Zoom for (Un)Seen Labor: Motherhood and Care. What is the value of care? Whose labor is seen, and how does loss impress itself into our bodies? Fiber artists Cassie Arnold @cassiearnoldfiberart and Catherine Reinhart @catherine_reinhart_studio will discuss their artistic practice in relationship to carework, grief, and haptic (hand) practices.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio
Textile Talks are a collaboration between the Surface Design Association, The International Quilt Museum @internationalquiltmuseum, Quilt Alliance @quiltalliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates @saqaart. ✨
🌍📚 Check out this month’s pick for SDA’s Book Club! 📚🌍
Louise Bourgeois Bibliographic Essay: "I have a favorite t-shirt, which reads 'Name Five Women Artists.' A lot of people have risen to the challenge, invariably naming Georgia O’Keefe and Frida Kahlo, both of whom have arrived at a place of pop culture familiarity, both painters. Louise Bourgeois’ name rarely comes up, perhaps because images of her work aren’t as commodifiable as O’Keefe’s and Kahlo’s are... Though recognition and interest in Bourgeois’ work came late in her life, many published works are now available. This essay covers four show catalogs and five picture books." Reviewed by Faith Hagenhofer @faithhagenhofer
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🎉 As an international organization committed to celebrating the art, history, and innovation of textiles, we believe there’s no better way to learn and grow together than by diving into captivating reads from all around the world. 🌐✨
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Each month, we’ll feature thought-provoking books—whether about the rich cultural heritage of textiles or the latest advancements in sustainable fashion. 🌱👗 This is the perfect space to explore ideas, share insights, and connect with fellow textile enthusiasts! 🤝
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Interested in submitting a review of your favorite fiber-related book for our blog? Check out our link in bio! (add actual link for FB)
🌍📚 Check out this month’s pick for SDA’s Book Club! 📚🌍
Louise Bourgeois Bibliographic Essay: "I have a favorite t-shirt, which reads 'Name Five Women Artists.' A lot of people have risen to the challenge, invariably naming Georgia O’Keefe and Frida Kahlo, both of whom have arrived at a place of pop culture familiarity, both painters. Louise Bourgeois’ name rarely comes up, perhaps because images of her work aren’t as commodifiable as O’Keefe’s and Kahlo’s are... Though recognition and interest in Bourgeois’ work came late in her life, many published works are now available. This essay covers four show catalogs and five picture books." Reviewed by Faith Hagenhofer @faithhagenhofer
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🎉 As an international organization committed to celebrating the art, history, and innovation of textiles, we believe there’s no better way to learn and grow together than by diving into captivating reads from all around the world. 🌐✨
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Each month, we’ll feature thought-provoking books—whether about the rich cultural heritage of textiles or the latest advancements in sustainable fashion. 🌱👗 This is the perfect space to explore ideas, share insights, and connect with fellow textile enthusiasts! 🤝
.
Interested in submitting a review of your favorite fiber-related book for our blog? Check out our link in bio! (add actual link for FB)
Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 2PM EDT on Zoom for (Un)Seen Labor: Motherhood and Care. What is the value of care? Whose labor is seen, and how does loss impress itself into our bodies? Fiber artists Catherine Reinhart @catherine_reinhart_studio and Cassie Arnold @cassiearnoldfiberart will discuss their artistic practice in relationship to carework, grief, and haptic (hand) practices.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio
Textile Talks are a collaboration between the Surface Design Association, The International Quilt Museum @internationalquiltmuseum, Quilt Alliance @quiltalliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates @saqaart. ✨
Our artistic practices are a site for storytelling: where lived experience, inherited knowledge, and imagined worlds converge. Through material, surface pattern, and labor, we make memory and myth visible.
Submit your work to Memory and Myth, juried by Meli Bandera @melibandera, by May 18, 2026. Learn more at the link in our bio
Our artistic practices are a site for storytelling: where lived experience, inherited knowledge, and imagined worlds converge. Through material, surface pattern, and labor, we make memory and myth visible.
Submit your work to Memory and Myth, juried by Meli Bandera @melibandera, by May 18, 2026. Learn more at the link in our bio
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Frequently asked questions
Anonymity
Anonstories lets users view Instagram stories without alerting the creator.
Device Compatibility
Works seamlessly on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and modern browsers like Chrome and Safari.
Safety and Privacy
Prioritizes secure, anonymous browsing without requiring login credentials.
No Registration
Users can view public stories by simply entering a username—no account needed.
Supported Formats
Downloads photos (JPEG) and videos (MP4) with ease.
Cost
The service is free to use.
Private Accounts
Content from private accounts can only be accessed by followers.
File Usage
Files are for personal or educational use only and must comply with copyright rules.
How It Works
Enter a public username to view or download stories. The service generates direct links for saving content locally.