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Films & Videos

An Antidote to Cultural Appropriation
On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, indigenous rights activist Seno Tsuha and social entrepreneur Rebecca Hui discuss a blueprint for respectfully borrowing from other cultures.

Textile Talks
Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, Studio Art Quilt Associates, and Surface Design Association. The programs are held online at 2 pm Eastern / 11am Pacific US and Canada (GMT/UTC -5) each Wednesday and last approximately one hour.

Books & Reports

Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne; Fiona Raby
ISBN: 9780262318501
Publication Date: 2013-12-06
In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures.
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
ISBN: 9781350005082
Publication Date: 2017-07-13

Fashioning Decolonization: Telling Stories of Canadian Indigenous Women Through Fashion Hacking
Decolonization is a complex, often discussed in academic or political environments, it is
challenging to discover tangible ways for individuals to practice it in daily life. A gap between
the personal understanding decolonization and the academic definitions of decolonization was
identified through oral history interviews, so this research shares the unique stories of eight
Canadian indigenous women through fashion as a way to inform a more accessible and embodied
definition of decolonization. The participants took part in a fashion-hacking workshop to began
to answer the questions: What does the lived experience of decolonization look and feel like for
Indigenous women? How do Indigenous women think about decolonization in the personal aspects
of their life and how can that be expressed through fashion? The format of this paper explores
different perspectives and ways of knowing by jumping back and forth between storytelling, art,
Indigenous and Western academic research.

Strange Material by Leanne Prain
ISBN: 9781551525501
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Strange Material explores the relationship between handmade textiles and storytelling.Through text, the act of weaving a tale or dropping a thread takes on new meaning for those who previously have seen textilesquilts, blankets, articles of clothing, and moreonly as functional objects. This book showcases crafters who take storytelling off the page and into the mediums of batik, stitching, dyeing, fabric painting, knitting, crochet, and weaving, creating objects that bear their messages proudly, from personal memoir and cultural fables to pictorial histories and wearable fictions.Full-color throughout, the book includes chapters on various aspects of textile storytelling, from'Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power'to'The Fabric of Remembrance'; it also includes specific projects, such as the well-known and profoundly moving Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as poetry mittens, button blankets, and stitched travel diaries. Offbeat, poetic, and subversive, Strange Material will inspire readers to re-imagine the possibilities of creating through needle and fabric.Leanne Prain is the co-author (with Mandy Moore) of Yarn Bombing, now in its third printing, and the author of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery. A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing.

Websites & Resources

V&A: Victoria & Albert Museum
The V&A is a museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Fibershed
Fibershed is a non-profit organization that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health. Our work expands opportunities to implement climate benefitting agriculture, rebuild regional manufacturing, and connect end-users to the source of our fiber through education. We transform the economic systems behind the production of material culture to mitigate climate change, improve health, and contribute to racial and economic equity.
The Kyoto Costume Institute
The late Koichi Tsukamoto, founder of the Kyoto Costume Institute and the Wacoal Corporation, made the following statement in regard to the establishment of the KCI: “The genre of Western-style women’s clothing underwent developed dramatically in postwar Japan, but most of these stylistic notions were imported. In order for Japanese fashion to truly lead the world, it is critical that we understand the entire history of the garment industry up until the present day, as encapsulated in the maxim, ‘Discover the new in the old.’ This was Wacoal’s mission and also my personal mission as the company’s founder and president.”