Contact, Crossover, Continuity

• Featured paper: Ancient Near Eastern Fibers and the Reshaping of European Clothing. - Elizabeth J.W. Barber
• Wreath and Cap to Veil and Apron: American Modification of a Slavic Ritual. - Patricia Williams

• Akwete-Igbo Weavers as Entrepreneurs and Innovators at the Turn of the Century. - Lisa Aronson
• What's in a Name: The Domestication of Factory Produced Wax Textiles in Cote d'Ivoire. - Kathleen E. Bickford
• Technology and Change: The Incorporation of Synthetic Dye Techniques in Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria. - Judith Byfield
• The Transformation of Men into Masquerades and Indian Madras into Masquerade Cloth in Buguma, Nigeria. - Elisha P. Renne and Joanne B. Eicher.
• Discussion of “Textile Transformations and Cultural Continuities in West Africa.”  - Christopher B. Steiner.

• The Conversion of Chinese Court Robes into Japanese Festival Hangings. - Gloria Granz Gonick
• Micronesian Textiles in Transition: The Woven Tol of Kosrae. - Ann Deegan and Ross Cordy
• Bolong-Bolong and Tirtanadi: An Unknown Group of Balinese Textiles. - Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff and Monika Palm-Nadolny
• Green Labels with Golden Elephants: Western European Printed Cottons for Malaysia and Indonesia. - Frieda Sorber

• Continuity of Culture: A Reenactor's Goal. - Elizabeth McClure
• The Influence of Computer Technologies on Contemporary Woven Fiber Art. - Cynthia Schira

• Contact, Crossover, Continuity: The Emergence and Development of the Two Basic Lace Techniques. -Santina Levey and Milton Sonday

• Supplementary Weft on an 'Ikat' Isle: The Weaving Communities of Northwestern Flores. - Roy W. Hamilton
• The 'Severed Shroud': Local and Imported Textiles in the Mortuary Rites of an Indonesian People. - Penelope Graham
• From the Ancestors or the Portuguese: Exotic Textiles in Flores and the Solar Archipelago (abstract). - Robyn Maxwell
• Cloth as Marriage Gifts: Change in Exchange Among the Lio of Flores. - Willemijn de Jong

• Byzantine Influences Along the Silk Route: Central Asian Silks Transformed. - Anna Maria Muthesius
• The Pomegranate Pattern in Italian Renaissance Textiles: Origins and Influence. - Rosalia Bonito Fanelli
• Ottoman Silks and Their Legacy. (abstract) - Diane Mott
• The Assimilation of European Designs into Twentieth Century Indian Saris. - Linda Lynton

• Raphael's 'Acts of the Apostles' Tapestries - The Birth of the Tapestry Reproduction System. - Marjorie Durko Puryear
• Market Effects on the Design and Construction of Carpets in the Milas Region of Southwestern Turkey, 1963-1993. - Charlotte A. Jirousek

• Featured Paper: Charmingly Quaint and Still Modern: The Paradox of Colonial Revival Needlework in America, 1875-1940. -Beverly Gordon
• From Bohemian to Bourgeois: American Batik in the Early Twentieth Century. - Nicola J. Shilliam
• New Twist on Shibori: How an Old Tradition Survives in the New World When Japanese Wooden Poles are Replaced by American   PVC Pipes. - Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
• Video: Paj Ntaub: Textile Techniques of the Hmong. (video script) - Joyce Smith

• Anni Albers: Pre-Columbian Resonances, the Significance of Pre-Columbian Art in Her Textiles and Writings. - Virginia Gardner Troy
• Ancient Andean Headgear: Medium and Measure of Cultural Identity. -Niki R. Clark and Amy Oakland Rodman
• Paracas Cavernas, Paracas Necropolis and Ocucaje: Looking at Appropriation and Identity with Only Material Remains. - Ann Peters
• Dressing the Part: Indigenous Costume as Political and Cultural Discourse in Peru. - Katharine E. Seibold
• Ethnic Artists and the Appropriation of Fashion: Embroidery and Identity in the Colca Valley, Peru. - Blenda Femenias
• (Re-)Fashioning Identity: Late Twentieth-Century Transformations in Dress and Society in Bolivia. - Elayne Zorn