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November update – textile stories on air and in print
Lots of recent coverage of textile events and people involved in CTANZ, including our members, our symposium speakers and attendees and subjects, offering up a rabbit warren of links. For starters, coming up on Choice TV this week (Monday 26 … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Craft, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Festivals, Film, Jewellery, Media, Movies, Museums, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Symposium, Textiles, Weaving, wool
Tagged Angela Lassig, Anna Williams, Auckland Arts Festival, Choice TV, Christine Keller, Creative New Zealand, Iran, Loom Room, Objectspace, Otago Museum, Pacific Sisters, Qashqai, RNZ, Rosanna Raymond, rugs, Sue McLean, Sulieti Fieme'a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies, The Wool Lover
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Land Girls and Lifesavers, painting by Sally Spicer
In Land Girls and Lifesavers, Sally Spicer has created paintings and prints that observe the varied lives and contributions of New Zealand women during World War II. Sally, who specialises in portraiture, worked from black and white photos from the … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, New Zealand, Whangarei
Tagged art, art/fashion, events, exhibitions, fashion, New Zealand women, Northland, openings, paintings, Whangarei, women in clothes, women's work
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CTANZ Symposium 2017 is only a month away!
THERE’S NO TIME LIKE NOW TO REGISTER for HIGHLIGHTS! Three Keynote Speakers! Doris de Pont needs no introduction to CTANZ members: the founder of the New Zealand Fashion Museum will talk about how her ongoing exploration of the ways clothing … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, CTANZ people, Exhibitions, Hamilton, History, Lectures & Talks, Museums, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Symposium, Textiles, Waikato
Tagged CTANZ, CTANZ symposium, Hamilton, Sympoium, Waikato Museum
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Meanwhile in Auckland….
March is definitively New Zealand’s fashion month, with iD down in Dunedin, and Auckland’s Four Days of Fashion in the City, including films, seasonal previews and other special activities. The four days specifically are 29 March – 1 April, but … Continue reading
New Magazine for Textile Lovers
“Connecting makers, collectors & lovers of textile craft arts” For those of you who missed it, in September last year, a brand spanking new textile magazine – Fabricate – was launched. And the 2nd issue (Summer 2016) isn’t long published. A celebration of … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Fabric, Journal, Magazine, Media, New Zealand, Publications, Reading, Shopping, Textiles
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Forthcoming! A beautiful new NZ-based online journal devoted to WOOL
The Wool Lover is soon-to-be-launched digital journal featuring fresh and contemporary stories across culture, fashion, film, design and so on, all with wool at their heart. ‘A VISUAL, LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDY DEVOTED TO A CELEBRATION OF THE WONDER FIBRE … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Fashion, History, New Zealand, Publications, Reading, Research resources, Textiles, Websites, wool
Tagged fashion, fibre, Kirsty Cameron, New Zealand, online journal, textiles, Vivienne Stone, wool
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Upcoming events at Te Papa
Te Papa has a great line up of costume and textile based events over the next three months, including a public lecture by leading fashion historian, Dr Valerie Steele. Dressing for Splendour, Sunday 2 October 2pm Enjoy an illustrated talk about the … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, Fashion, History, International, Lectures & Talks, Museums, New Zealand, Textiles, Wellington
Tagged 18th century fashion, cosrtume display, European Splendour, fashion exhibitions, Friends of Te Papa, John Gillow, Kantha quilts, Nga Toi, Te Papa, Valerie Steele
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Conference: The End of Fashion registrations open
The End of Fashion An international conference and exhibition | 8-9 Dec 2016 | College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington Registrations are now open. Early bird rates apply until 16 October. When designer Yves Saint Laurent departed from the … Continue reading