BETWEEN WEAVE AND TIMBRE: WHEN FABRIC TRANSFORMS INTO MUSIC

| by Eleonora Giglione | From warp to sonic vibrations, an invisible thread connects looms, scores, and contemporary experiments. A frontier still waiting to be woven. The history of textile art is a silent symphony that spans millennia. Behind every nomadic carpet, every medieval tapestry, every Renaissance brocade lies a language of rhythms, pauses, and counterpoints. The warp and weft are like intertwined melodic lines; the loom itself is as much a compositional instrument as a violin or piano. In the 19th century, with the invention of the Jacquard loom, weaving took a leap into mathematical abstraction. The punched cards used to control thread movement were nothing but ancient binary…

FEDERICA PATERA AND ANDREA SBRA PEREGO: WINNERS OF THE 2025 MOTHERSHIP NYC RESIDENCY AWARD

Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego, Italian artists known for their shared visual and textual practice, have recently been selected as the winners of the 2025 Residency Award from Mothership NYC, one of the most vibrant independent spaces on the Brooklyn art scene. The duo, originally from Bergamo and recently relocated to New York, work by weaving fabrics and words together, creating hybrid works in which language and material merge into installations, sculptures, and multimedia performances. The official announcement was published on Mothership’s website. Since 2014, the space has welcomed artists from around the world aboard its Ship-That-Does-Not-Sail, a former industrial factory in the heart of Greenpoint that has been…

COLLECTIVE STITCHES FOR NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PARTICIPATORY TEXTILE ART

| by Nikola Filipovic | There was a moment when I stopped thinking of my work as something I should personally sign and began to see it as a collective gesture. Textile art and traditional techniques have taken centre stage in my research. I first got into textile practices during my studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, where I started exploring the expressive possibilities of fabric. I began by working with felt, drawn to its texture and the way it can create both flat surfaces and soft, sculptural forms. Later on, I discovered embroidery, and I was really struck by how slow and meditative the process is – it gives you…

WEAVING PLACES: LOCATING IDENTITY THROUGH TEXTILE LANGUAGE

| by Elena Redaelli | “Through their production, materials, and decorative motifs—closely intertwined with the cultural and social histories of different places—textiles offer a lens through which to explore cultural similarities, differences, and change. As matter, textiles are rooted in specific places, but they also trace our migrations across the globe.”(Kettle, A. 2019)

WALTER ALBINI. THE TALENT, THE DESIGNER

| by Susanna Cati | Walter Albini. The Talent, The Designer is the result of an extensive investigation and enhancement project led by the Museo del Tessuto in Prato, which sheds new light on Albini’s central role in the Italian fashion scene from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
The project took shape following a significant donation received by the Museum between 2014 and 2016: a rich and previously unseen collection of materials that belonged to the designer — jewelry, sketches, drawings, photographs, documents, and books — offering a clear and extraordinary view of his creative journey, from his early beginnings in 1959 until his untimely death in 1983.
These materials, never…

“COLOR AND FASHION”: THE ESSAY BY LIA LUZZATTO AND RENATA POMPAS

In the essay Color and Fashion, Lia Luzzatto and Renata Pompas take readers on a fascinating and unexpected journey through the history of color in clothing, from the togas of ancient Rome to contemporary looks. This work, meticulous and richly documented, stands out for its ability to intertwine aesthetics, history, and material culture, restoring color to its central role not only in fashion but also in the broader narrative of social identity.

INVISIBLE STITCHERS: MASCULINITY, NEEDLE AND THREAD IN JOSEPH MCBRINN’S BOOK

For centuries, the needle and thread have been tacitly assigned to female hands. But history is, as often happens, more complex and layered than conventions would have us believe. Joseph McBrinn demonstrates this with acumen and rigour in his book Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework, the first systematic study devoted to the male presence in the world of embroidery and textile arts. Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts in the spring of 2021, the volume opens an unexpected breach in the history of making, uncovering a hidden (and often erased) tradition of men who, from the Middle Ages onwards, have sewn, embroidered, made lace, knitted, tailored…

IL MEOC MUSEO ETNOGRAFICO OLIVA CARTA CANNAS E L’AAAPERTO DI AGGIUS

| by Barbara Pavan | Images ph.credit Chiara Marci The MEOC Oliva Carta Cannas Ethnographic Museum, the largest in Sardinia, preserves a rich heritage of testimonies of textile activity deeply rooted in the culture of this town in Gallura. So much so, in fact, that the reconstruction of the stazzo—the typical ancient Gallurese house—presented within the museum, is hosted inside the restored and renovated building that once housed the first textile school. The recognitions and certificates of merit awarded to the school are on display inside the museum itself.

THE WEAVING OF INTELLIGENCES: THREADS, ALGORITHMS, AND QUANTUM WORLDS

| by Eleonora Giglione | There is a silent yet tenacious bond between the art of weaving and the world of computation. An ancient thread that spans centuries and technologies, capable of linking the manual intuition of weavers with the abstraction of the most sophisticated machines. From mechanical looms to punched cards, from visual algorithms to neural bending and quantum computers, thought becomes weave, interlace, variation. In this journey through patterns, logics, and languages, we rediscover the symbolic roots of programming and open up a new space for imagining intelligence as an expanded form of creation. Among the pioneers in the history of computer science, Heinz Zemanek holds a unique…