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Link to October Newsletter – In this issue: Textile Artists taking Needlework to the next level, Mayan Weavers in Guatemala video, Design Spotlight Isabel Toledo video, Handweavers Guild of America Spinning & Weaving Week
Link to August Newsletter – In this issue: Artist Spotlight – Diedrick Brackens, The Lost Textile of Ryukyu (video), In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories, Artist Spotlight – Joel Allen
Link to July Newsletter – In this issue: Surface Design Association, Explore Fiber Book Review Shedding the Shackles, National Basketry Organization Virtual Conference, Weave a Real Peace
Link to June Newsletter – In this issue: (Videos) Black Artists to Watch in 2021, Exhibits at Visions Art Museum, Bisa Butler: Portraits at the Art Institute Chicago, Janet Echelman’s 1.8 Renwick
Link to May Newsletter – In this issue: 3D Textiles Could Replace Concrete and Cement in Construction; New TextielLab weaving machine brings excitement to artists and designers; Textile Artists:  the Pioneers of a New Material World; Why Sewing Should No Longer Be Seen as just    ‘Women’s Work’
Link to March Newsletter – In this issue: Tulip stop motion animation trailer; How to make a basket; Barbara Kingsolver writing ‘Where it Begins, Knitting as a Creation Story’; Overview of Jon Eric Riis’s exhibition Threads of Consciousness
Link to February Newsletter – In this issue: Marela Zacarías; A 500 Year History of the Pocket (video); Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition, Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa; Sanuki Kagari Temari
Embroidered Hand Balls (video)
Link to January Newsletter – In this issue: In Memoriam: Jack Lenor Larsen (video); Art to Wear Julie Schafler Dale (video); YARN, the Movie (trailer); H&M’s Green Machine: A Recycling Solution?
Link to November Newsletter – In this issue: Digital Instruction Lesli Robertson, Maker to Maker: Barkcloth of Uganda; Lia Cook (video);  Tanya Aguiñiga (video); Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (video); Navajo weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas & Lynda Teller Pete
Link to September Newsletter – In this issue: Studio Art Quilt Associates, SAQA Textile Talks; Free Downloadable Ebook Textiles & Tapestries: Self-Study for Envisioning New Ways of Knowing; Critical Craft Forum Conversations; The George Washington University Museum The Textile Museum Textiles 101 Gallery
Link to August Newsletter – In this issue: Hair Love (video); Fiber Stop Motion Animation (video); Best Wool Animations (video); Intangible (video)
Link to July Newsletter – In this issue: Bisa Butler (video); Sonya Clark (video); Christopher Martin (video); Abdulaye Konate (video)
Link to June Newsletter – In this issue: Deborah Kruger (video); Jack Lenor Larsen (video); Moy Mackay (video); Kaffe Fassett (video)
Link to March Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Melanie Siegel; The Violet Protest; Shu Embroidery; The Funk Files – Embroidery Frontiers
Link to February Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Jennifer Torres; SDA Art Educator Resource; 5 Amazing Artists using Felt; From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art; Hand Woven by Judit Just
Link to January Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Leslie McReynolds; Creating Embroidered Illustrations for the Washington Post; The Last Knit (video); Nick Cave Until
Link to December Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Amie Adelman; 25 Million Stitches; We Wear Culture Searchable Archive; Reiko Sudo at CHAT – Japanese Textile Ingenuity
Link to October Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Amanda Batson Tucker; 3D Printing Felt; How Bottles are Turned into Fashion; Waterless dying
Link to September Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, April Dauscha; Black Books – Favorite Place (Official Video); Peak Alpaca (video); Lost & Found (2018) – Oscar Short Listed Stop-Motion Animation
Link to July Newsletter – In this issue: Dallas Community Educator, VET; Diedrick Brackens Weaves History for First Solo Show at New Museum; Sculptural Drawings by Kazuhito Takadoi; Ethical Cashmere
Link to May Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Tracy Evans; Sheila Hicks at Nasher Sculpture Center; Tempestry Project; Christo, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l’Étoile – Charles de Gaulle)
Link to April Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Ashley Manning; Deborah Kruger; Leisa Rich; Trevor Smith
Link to March Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Laura & Matt Grundler; India Boosting Handloom Sector; Layers of Crocheted Fabric Drape Across a Large-Scale Inflatable Installation Inside of Paris’s Le Bon Marché; Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich
Develop Knitted Concrete System
Link to February Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Alison Adame; Surface Design Association Highlight; Textile and Fiber Art List; Hand/Eye; TextileArtist.org
Link to January Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Annie Zirin; Shifu, A Traditional Paper Textile of Japan; Judy Chicago article; Designs for Life: the Guatemalan Women Fighting for the Rights to Their Textiles
Link to November/December Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Stephanie L. Chambers; Quilts for Guns Program; Origami for space; Modern Macrame
Link to October Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight, Julie Marks Blackstone; Fiber Advocacy Call to Action; Nick Cave Feat.; World of Wearable Art
Link to May Newsletter
Link to September Newsletter – In this issue: Textile and Art:  Recent Developments…from the Textile Forum Blog; Hearts healed through weaving innovation; Wall Street Journal Magazine The Art World’s New Material Obsession: Fiber; Textiles as Architectural Material
Link to August Newsletter – In this issue: Explore Fiber Blog #4 in Feedspot Top Fiber Blogs; Eileen Fisher & Eco-Fashion; Fibers on the Road, Turtle Ridge Gallery; Frau Fiber vs. the Machines
Link to July Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight Christine Miller; Orange is the new silk; Indigo Cultivate, Dye, Create; How the Button Changed Fasion
Link to May Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight Kimberly Paser; West Dressed: Fashions Inspired by the Western Frontier; Sally Ackerman, Yarn Bomber; Healing Power of Fiber Art, Lynn Ojeda
Link to April Newsletter – In this issue: Educator Highlight Katherine Pinkham; Dallas Yarn Bombers; Anonymous Artists of Chinese Textile Collage; World of Threads Festival