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Textiles are one of humankind's oldest forms of cultural expression, and women have been and remain pivotal players in this multifaceted and exacting field. In Textile Practices, designer and author Stephanie Kahnau presents 40 outstanding female textile designers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their individual methods of engaging with this fascinating medium at the intersection of craft, design, and art. Textiles are an artistic means of articulation: sensitive, political, defiant. Ever since the 1960s in particular, textile arts have become increasingly recognised and subsequently established as an art form in their own right, with female artists blow-ing apart traditional concepts in their work: textiles became sculptures, installations, social gestures and a medium of feminist empowerment. This current publication focuses on 40 specially selected 20th- and 21st-century female positions in Europe that evince the multifaceted development of textile expression up to the present day. The charged relationship of textile and body runs through many of the compiled works. For textiles are frequently experienced up close they touch us, literally. And it is in precisely this closeness that the functional or critical, fragile and poetic potential of many textile works unfolds.

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Stephanie Kahnau was born near Stuttgart and studied Textile Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. She has had her own label for about 10 years and presents clothing, accessories and textile art pieces in her own distinctive designs. Each item is individually created with a strong focus on textile characteristics. Inspired by everyday life, her work combines traditional textile techniques with experimental and unusual materials and is enhanced by the use of minimalist styling. The unique handcrafted items will appeal to similarly individual owners, and are sold in a concept store in Munich. She also teach at various universities and colleges in the field of fashion and textiles, give lectures and workshops.

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