We are happy to share with you the exciting news that the 50th volume of The Textile Museum Journal is now available through https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal.
In the Textile Museum Journal’s 50th volume, nine articles by senior and emerging scholars from across multiple disciplines examine the cultural, technical, and aesthetic significance of textiles through time and across cultures by using a variety of methodologies and resources. The topics discussed include the roles of silk, fine wool, and velvet textiles within and between societies; material and dye-color identification; and ancient weaving technology. The articles investigate historical textiles from a wide array of geographic regions including Egypt, Turkey, Japan, and England.
For subscriptions to The Textile Museum Journal 50 and access to earlier issues, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal. For submissions, more information or questions, please contact The Textile Museum Journal editorial team at tmjournal@gwu.edu or check https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal.
We very much hope that you enjoy reading our new volume.
Table of Contents
The Textile Museum Journal, Volume 50
King Midas’s Textiles: Dyeing and Weaving Technology in Ancient Phrygia by Elizabeth Simpson, Mary W. Ballard, G. Asher Newsome, and Brendan Burke
The Asian Silk Fabric in the Binding of Great Meteoron Manuscript 236 by Nikolaos Vryzidis, Marielle Martiniani-Reber, Georgios Boudalis, Alexander Konstantas, and Athina Vasileiadou
Two Velvet Letter Pouches and Their Role in Safavid Diplomacy by Anna Jolly and Corinne Mühlemann
Professor Wace’s Turkish Sampler: Ottoman Women Embroiderers and Continental Collectors of Woven Archaeologies by Deniz Türker
Reading Mosurin in Imperial Japan by Yu-Ning Chen
Research Notes
Yusuf and Zulaikha in Sufi Poetry and Safavid Silks by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
Tasar or Muga? The Dilemma in Identifying Golden Yellow Silks in Textiles from Bengal by Karthika Audinet
Emerging Scholars
An Amazon in Antinoë: Contextualizing a Late Antique Textile from Egypt by Max McDonald Malik
Sleeves Required: Identities of Consumption and Production in Elizabethan Embroidered Dress by Andrew Clark
Recommendations from the Library compiled by Tracy Meserve
Contact Information
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tmjournal@gwu.edu
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