This educational list of books, essays, journals, scholarly articles, documentaries and online resources is an accessible open resource designed to expand upon our knowledge and understanding of textiles and textile narratives.
Eichler-Levine, J. (2020) Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis. University of North Carolina Press
Falls, S. and Smith, J., (2020). Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond. 1st ed. The University of
Matsinde, T., (2015). Contemporary design Africa. London: Thames & Hudson.
Thomason, B., (2021). Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men & the Culture of Needlework. TEXTILE, pp.1-2.
Wax Print: From the Cradle to the Grave. 2018. [film] Directed by A. Obinyan. London: AiAi Studios.
Machado, P., Fee, S. and Campbell, G., (2018). Textile trades, consumer cultures, and the material worlds of the Indian Ocean. 1st ed. London
Phulkari: The Embroidered Textiles of Punjab from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.(2017). [Exhibition]. Philadelphia Museum of Art. March 12,
Simmonds, D., Oyelola, P. and Ọkẹ, S., (2016). Adire cloth in Nigeria: 1971-2016. London.
Spring, C., (2012). African textiles today. London: The British Museum Press.
Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes (2019). [Art Institute Chicago]. Chicago. Feb 23–Jun 16, 2019.
“The Making African Connections project ran between 2019 and 2021. It researched historic African collections held in Sussex and Kent museums