Entries tagged with "textiles"

ATID experts to evaluate vintage clothing, textiles on May 21

Would you like to know more about that vintage article of clothing or textile you have, such as what it is, when it was made and how to care for it?

Fiberarts magazine features Haar’s work

Sherry Haar’s innovative work in the use of garden plants for dying and printing is featured in the winter issue of the prestigious Fiberarts magazine.

Quilt expert to talk history on Sept. 10

Patricia Crews, director of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will discuss the history of American quilts Friday, Sept. 10, in All Faiths Chapel on campus.

An Afternoon Tea Celebrating ‘Pieces of Time’

“An Afternoon Tea Celebrating ‘Pieces of Time,’” 3-5 p.m. Sunday, June 6, on the lawn of the K-State president’s home, 100 Wilson Court.

Vintage Flag Quilt to headline the ‘Pieces of Time’ exhibition at K-State’s Beach Museum of Art

A patriotic flag quilt will star in an upcoming exhibition of quilts at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

Textile professor’s garden blooming with plants to dye fabrics

Tall, vivid stands of flowers bloom in the beds surrounding Sherry Haar’s Manhattan home. The plants are inspirational, to say the least, and are for more than just looking at, according to the K-State associate professor of apparel, textiles and interior design. They are her research. Haar grows a wide variety of plants, from the [...]

Student team, Brosdahl in high cotton

Deb Brosdahl, associate professor in Apparel, Textiles and Interior Design, will take eight students  to North Carolina in October to learn how an agricultural crop becomes cloth. With a $43,000 grant from Cotton Inc., Brosdahl and “Team Cotton” will travel to Raleigh to tour a cotton farm, a cotton gin, and a cotton mill. At [...]