Skin and Cloth
Seeks to explore relationships between skin and cloth including: mimesis, representation and metaphor
A special issue ‘Skin and Cloth' for Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture Vol. 6, issue 3, Oxford: Berg, Nov. 2008. This issue seeks to explore relationships between skin and cloth including: mimesis, representation and metaphor and includes work on technological advances in textiles. Image manipulation software such as Photoshop gave rise to a plethora of art works and advertising that depicted seamless collages of skin, cloth and body. Advances in technical textiles and military clothing research has brought about innovative fusions between science, technology and textiles where cloth takes on behavioural qualities of skin and body.
The Skin and Cloth issue intends to locate textiles and discussion within a sometimes edgy and unnerving context, taking the ‘cosiness' out of textiles and bringing together ideas around horror, poetics and/or innovation in a collection of essays, interviews, poems and reviews.
