Textile Society of America Symposium Program &amp; Info: 2018: 16th Biennial; The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global
Journal: Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
Year: 2019

The theme of TSA’s 16th Biennial Symposium is The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global. Located on the Pacific Rim, Vancouver offers a pertinent setting to probe the impact and influence of settlers and immigration on an already long-inhabited land, and how textile traditions have been influenced, changed, and/or adapted through and by cultural contact. In 2014 Vancouver city council unanimously voted to acknowledge that the city is on un-ceded Aboriginal territory, creating fertile ground fo