Inspired by the fame of her friend Charlotte's webs, Fern Arable studied textiles at university and has recently opened her own boutique, specialising in silk garments.
Academic background: B.S., textile engineering, Uludag University, 2000; M.S., textile engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2003; Ph.D., apparel design, Cornell University, 2011.
Museums and Galleries BEN SHAHN GALLERIES, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY "Textile Arts: American Art Quilts" and "Crossing the Line: Wearable Art".
Jo Westwood graduated with a degree in textiles from Falmouth University and spent 18 months in a design studio before realising she wanted to be her own boss.
"They tried to create a collection that reflected the entire gamut of quilt-making traditions," Patricia Cox Crews, the Willa Cather professor of textiles at the university and the quilt center's director, said on Thursday.
The center will include storage, a conservation laboratory and a visiting area for the Textile Museum and the university's collections.
Wuhan Textile University (WTU), founded in 1958, is the only university named after 'Textile', with top-ranking textile and apparel disciplines in the country.
On Monday Susanna Harris, an ancient textiles expert from Glasgow university, studied an unprepossessing bundle of blackened fibres and found a reel of thread spun from plant fibre, finer than a human hair.
The mattresses for all state university dormitories, textiles, soap, furniture, brooms, mops, vehicle inspection stickers -- and license plates, of course -- are just a sampling of the products made by inmates learning trades.
