Katrina
@katrinamo.bsky.social
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textile and fashion historian teaching responsible fashion
came to Gaziantep, Türkiye 🇹🇷 to see and buy handwoven kutnu. it did not disappoint. i purchased some solid color meters and a little ikat to bring back to the US
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if you are in DC this summer/winter, please consider stopping by The Textile Museum on GW’s campus to see my exhibition “Source Material: Lessons in Responsible Fashion”
4 months ago
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some big news out of the GW Museum & The Textile Museum: my exhibition opens May 15 with a couple great program offerings in the first week. if you’re in DC, come through!
6 months ago
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19thnews
6 months ago
Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost twice as likely to die during pregnancy or soon after giving birth, a report released Wednesday found.
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People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy
The risk is greatest among Black women in states with abortion bans, according to a new report.
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/abortion-bans-pregnancy-related-death/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=19th-social
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Kate Strasdin
6 months ago
Amongst his textile innovations, a technique that Mariano Fortuny created in the early c20th was a series of metal matrices to speed up production of his printed fabrics whilst retaining the artisanship. Here a printed silk alongside one of the matrices
#palazzofortuny
#FashionHistory
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Kate Strasdin
7 months ago
Some one shouldered glamour in tight pleated silk jersey. It can only be Madame Grès, bringing her familiar technique to a black evening dress with a slash of scarlet. Late
#1940s
, sold via Kerry Taylor Auctions
#FashionHistory
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7 months ago
Miao Hmong embroidery designs, deriving from the Miao Hmong people of the mountainous regions of China
#WomensArt
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I thought it was .004 and the fact that i even feel the need to make such a distinction makes me sick. these are books!!! and art!!! for people!!! what the fuck are we doing
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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Marisa Kabas
7 months ago
Confirmed DOGE is currently inside IMLS headquarters.
add a skeleton here at some point
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TM staff trip to a trustee’s house
7 months ago
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amazing workshop at the Postal Museum!
8 months ago
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exhibition dressing has turned violent
8 months ago
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the museum got a facelift for the centennial!
8 months ago
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First sightings of Tenerife lace since we got to the island!
10 months ago
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spent the first day of the new year in the High Atlas Mountains learning traditional wool & rug production skills from Amazigh women
10 months ago
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a sneak peek at Morrocan textiles. full workshop pics to come!
10 months ago
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Saying goodbye to our beautiful ikat exhibition and gearing up for the museum’s centennial anniversary. If you are in DC during 2025 please be sure to stop at the museum to see the best of our collection (including my exhibition)!
10 months ago
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Rebecca Quinton
11 months ago
Some fab
#TurkeyRed
peacocks for
#TextileTuesday
spotted by
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
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FRUITBLUSH
almost 2 years ago
Prints available All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
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Hi new followers! My name is Katrina & I work at a textile museum that severely underpays its workers. If you love the pics I post, and would be willing to spare 5 minutes so my colleagues and I can still afford to work there, please shoot me a DM!
11 months ago
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textile folks, is there a word for this type of 3 dimensional contemporary beading?
11 months ago
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preparing for our honeymoon!!!
11 months ago
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please say happy birthday to Kala, my beautiful 3 year old daughter!
11 months ago
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everyone loves a free museum until you learn that’s the pot of money that staff are paid out of
11 months ago
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wore probably the most expensive garment that i ever will this weekend, during our ikat show and tell
11 months ago
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incredibly proud of my first flax fiber! thanks to the Chesapeake Fibershed for a great day
12 months ago
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“vintage bird print” 😭😭😭
12 months ago
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an ex(terior)hibition at the Science History Institute in Philly. What a great use of architectural space AND it has an accompanying “tour” video. learn about ramie here:
www.sciencehistory.org/visit/exhibi...
about 1 year ago
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I’m not joking when I say this should be illegal
about 1 year ago
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some shots from our Celebration of Textiles 2025 featuring an ikat dragon 🐉
about 1 year ago
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playing around with our new Dino-Lite. what a dream
about 1 year ago
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Some favorites from Sleeping Beauties: an odd exhibition that seemed to have two concurrent but semi-unrelated curatorial ambitions
about 1 year ago
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frames and graphics designed by my students to hang in The Loop, GW’s free clothing swap! buy less and swap more this prime day!
over 1 year ago
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Textile history is American history 📍 Smithsonian National Museum of American History
over 1 year ago
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learn about textiles while you poop! beautiful, educational updates to our museums bathrooms!
over 1 year ago
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live from Smithsonian Folklife Festival
over 1 year ago
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about making textiles in GW’s day 📍Mount Vernon
over 1 year ago
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classic
#textilemuseumproblems
stuck in my local thrift trying to explain the human magic that is ikat to uninterested shoppers 😭😭😭
over 1 year ago
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for three years, my students have been fighting for a space on campus to see their circular fashion dreams come to life this month, I am happy to say they’ve done it. please enjoy GW’s “The Loop,” a PERMANENT free clothing swap!
over 1 year ago
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beautiful if rainy day on the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks
over 1 year ago
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“Claire / McCardell” and behind the scenes at the Maryland Center for History and Culture
over 1 year ago
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blessed by a visitor on our windowsill this morning. she didn’t mind my company one bit as she tore her breakfast to shreds 🐀
over 1 year ago
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Simone Leigh, Mark Bradford, and Jessica Diamond (and me!) at the Hirshhorn
over 1 year ago
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spent this week with our collection and cannot stop thinking about the beauty of our piña blouses
over 1 year ago
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The Walters Art Museum
over 1 year ago
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BMA
over 1 year ago
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The Sky’s the Limit at The National Museum of Women in the Arts
over 1 year ago
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next up
almost 2 years ago
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Matthew Noe
almost 2 years ago
The library being "the last real third space" isn't a reason to keep adding new responsibilities to the library; it is a reason to create more third spaces.
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