Special Issue: Digital Dialogues 1: Textiles and Technology

'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'- Times Higher Education'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dare to move beyond the narrow concerns of tradition and technique.'Crafts

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

"If You Have a lot of Clutter it Messes Up the Popup": The Pursuit of Good 'Gestalts' in an Online Folk Art Brenda Danet Digital Imagination: The Impact of Digital Imaging on Printed Textiles Cathy Treadaway Textile Patterns and Their Epistemological Functions Kerstin Kraft Digital Clothes: Active, Dynamic and Virtual Textiles and Garments Anne Farren and Andrew Hutchison Textiles, Patterns and Technology: Digital Tools for the Geometric Analysis of Cloth and Culture Sushil Bhakar, Cheryl Kolak Duek, Sylvain Muise, Lydia Sharman, Eric Hortop and Fred E. Szabo Super 'Cilia' Skin: A Textile Interface Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor and Hiroshi Ishii