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TF 2/99 Finland

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TF 2/99: 52 pages, 24 high quality color pages, in A4 format (German edition: 60 pages)
Most of the articles are presented with complete contact addresses.

Finland

Textiles in Finland - On the occasion of the 8th ETN Conference in Rovaniemi, by Beatrijs Sterk

Focusing on textiles - Changes in the Finnish textile industry and the work of designers, by Eija Karjalainen & Jarkko Kallio

The Finnish Society of Crafts and Design, Form-Function-Finland magazine

Outi Tuominen-Mäkinen, Finnish Textile Artist of the year '99, by Maija Arela

The Finnish rya rug, by Seija Heinänen

120th anniversary of the Friends of Finnish Handicrafts, by Päikki Priha

Skills to quality - A strategy for the Finnish Arts & Crafts Organisation, by Birgitta Sassi

Textile and fashion training in the Arctic Circle, by Prof. Minna Uotila/ University of Lapland

The nature of the Finnish textile art, by Tuija Maija Piironen

Wetterhoff - A textile crafts college, by Beatrijs Sterk

110 years in the crafts service, by Director Seija Heinänen/ The Crafts Museums of Finland

    Special report

    The Frankfurt fairs Interstoff and Techtextil and two parallel symposia - New materials and new technologies

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Preview of events

Calendar of international events

Textile Forum magazine is known for its complete quarterly calendar. For the third quarter of 1999, 255 current exhibitions are listened, 38 specialized meetings resp. further educational opportunities and 17 competitions

Calendar of 'Regional' Events

The German edition has a calendar of more than 71 additional exhibitions, meetings/courses, competitions and fairs/markets in German speaking countries.

Some selected event previews

Ten fairs, four contests and ten specialised further educational opportunities resp. specialised meetings are noted in detail, with their entry, submission resp. application conditions, dates and complete addresses.

Exhibitions - Detailed and/or illustrated articles

Underwear in Socialism, German-Russian cultural exchange project, start in March/April 2000 in Russia

'Wedding', exhibition from 16 April to 29 August 1999 in Paris

'Garde-Robes', exhibition since 18 May in Paris

4th Intl. Tapestry Festival, from 1 July to 19 September 1999 in Beauvais/F

Miniartextil Como '99, exhibition from 25 September to 31 October 1999

'Filo-Around the Textile World', an event programme from 26 March to the end of October 1999 in the province Friuli-Venetia-Julia/ Italy

Marcel Alocco, exhibition of textile art in Paris

Embroidery '99, intl exhibition from 24 June to 24 August 1999 in Cluj-Napoca/Romania

'Natur-Gewebe', exhibition by Uta Arnhardt and Leena Naumanen from 16 June to 29 August 1999 in Heidelberg

The Zittau Lenten Veil on show since 12 June 1999 in Zittau/D

'Egypt between the sun and the moon', exhibition beginning on 11 July in Terrassa/Spain

'With Golden Threads'- Embroideries for the Prussian Court from the 22 August to 15 October 1999 in Potsdam/D

Silk treasures, special exhibition of Midieval textiles from Europe to China, 9 March - 1 November 1999 at the Abegg-Foundation/CH

Bauhaus Textiles 1919-1933, exhibition from 22 May to 5 September 1999 in Tilburg/NL

Hans Krondahl, exhibition from 30 May to 22 August 1999 in Kristianstad/Sweden

'Art of the Stitch', exhibition from 26 June to 22 August 1999 in Gateshead/UK

Inge Huber, quilt exhibition from 22 June to 24 July 1999 in Gateshead/UK

Michael James, iconographic quilts, from 27 June to 25 July in a gallery near Neuchâtel/CH

Marielies Riebesel, textile art and paintings, from 20 June to 19 September 1999 in Halle/D

'Living Waters'- Contemporary European textile art, from 18 June to 25 July 1999 in Helsinki

Nordic textile art, exhibition from 19 June to 5 September 1999 in Rovaniemi/FIN

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Reports

Special reports

'Today one Swiss worker costs as much as 100 Indonesians'- Hourly wages and machine utilisation in spinning and weaving mills, by Dietmar Laue

Reports of selected events

'From Australian bush to German forest'- 6th Gröbenzell Quilt exhibition with quilt art from Australia, by Brunhilde Jochum

2nd European Quilt Symposium in Blankenberghe/Belgium, by Irene Kahmann

Asian felt carpets, exhibition in Milan, by Renata Pompas

Ukrainian textile art, L'viv Academy of Art

6th Intl. Textile Competition in Kyoto/Japan, by Beatrijs Sterk

Digital textile printing, results of a contest between European schools

'Heaven and Earth'- Spanish textiel art, by Rosa Maria Castell

'Crossed Threads'- Textile art and historic ticking from Evreux/France

3rd European Competition of Textile and Fshion Design by the Apolda Region '99, by Beatrijs Sterk

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Other Subjects

Brief notes

A new international association of manufacturers of natural textiles

Design awards for recyclable textiles

Fibre Atlas by Detlef Lehmann

'Feltwork'- New Newsletter for felt artists, Australia

Caged museum visitors - Schönbrunn Castle in Vienna

Learning centres in North American textile museums

Letters

The Arthur D. Jenkins Library at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., by Mary E. Mallio/ Librarian

Book reviews

La draperie au moyen-âge, Dominique Cardon; Paris 1999

The Red Dyes - Cochineal, Madder and Murex Purple, Gösta Sandberg; Ashville/USA 1997

Images du lin textile, Jean-Marc Montaigne; Rouen/F 1997

Textile Techniken in Metall (Textile Techniques in Metal), Arline M. Fisch; Bern/CH 1998, German edition

Textilien färben und bedrucken (Fabric Dyeing&Printing), Kate Wells; Bern/CH 1998, German edition

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