The Textile Museum Journal
$90.00
University of Texas Press
Description:
ANNUAL · 8.5 x 11 · 100 PAGES/ISSUE · ISSN 0083-7407 · E-ISSN 2475-8825
Established in 1962, The Textile Museum Journal is the leading publication for the exchange of textile scholarship in North America. The peer-reviewed journal promotes high-quality research on the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles from Asian, African, and indigenous American cultures. Last issued in 2004, the journal resumed annual publication in an online format in 2017, thanks to a Founding Patron gift from the Markarian Foundation.
The Individual-Member package is available for members of The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Please submit proof of membership by sending a scan of your membership card to customer service.
Recent Issues
Volume 46, 2019
Volume 45 (2018)
Volume 44 (2017)
- Introduction: In Honor of Dr. Mattiebelle Gittinger
- Ruth Barnes and Cristin McKnight Sethi
- Tools of the Master Dyer: Dye Materials in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century South Asian Painted Cotton Textiles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Sylvia HOughteling and Nobuko Shibayama
- Stripes, Checks, and Flowers: Textile Patterns in the Murals of Lepakshi, South India
- Brigitte Khan Majlis
- An Unusual Shrinath...
Volume 45 (2018)
- Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages
- Patricia Blessing, Guest Editor
- Gems in Cloth and Stone: Medium, Materiality, and the Late Antique Jeweled Aesthetic
- Elizabeth Dospel Williams
- Painted Silks: Form and Production of Women's Court Dress in the Mongol Empire
- Eiren L. Shea
- Put a Bird on it: What an Aviary Preoccupation Reveals about Medieval Silks
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Volume 44 (2017)
- Toward a Grammar of Textiles: A Reconsideration of Medieval Silk Aesthetics and the Impact of Modern Collecting
- Arielle Winnik
- Nomad Textile Bags from Central Asia in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Geographic Distribution, Decoration, Semantics
- Irina Bogoslovskaya
- Through the Renaissance Frame: Carpets and the Beginnings of “Islamic Art” in Nineteenth-Century Vienna and Berlin
- Denise-Marie Teece
- Pope Innocent VIII’s...
Submissions:
The Textile Museum Journal promotes high-quality academic research on the textile arts and serves as an interface between different branches of academia and textile scholars worldwide. It is devoted to the presentation of scholarly articles concerning the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles. The journal is international in scope with emphasis on the cultures represented in The Textile Museum's collections (Asian, African, and indigenous American).
We invite authors to submit manuscripts or themed proposals based on original research of a documentary, analytical, or interpretive nature. Acceptance of manuscripts or proposals for publication is based upon double-blind peer review. Submissions should be both scholarly and accessible to a broad readership. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
Submission Guidelines
Download submission guidelines for manuscripts (.pdf)
Download submission guidelines for themed proposals (.pdf)
Download the bibliography style guide (.pdf)
All submissions must follow the Chicago Manual of Style for endnotes.
Production Schedule
Late August: Submission deadline for the following year’s volume
Early September to mid-January: Peer-review process
Late January to mid-March: Manuscript revisions
Late March: Deadline for revised manuscripts
Early April to late June: Editing
Early July to late September: Design and production
October: Print and online release
Upcoming deadlines:
Submission deadline for completed abstracts and articles by April 1, 2019.
Finished manuscripts are due by July 31, 2019
To be published in the fall of 2019
Contact
Please email manuscripts to tmjournal@gwu.edu.
Editorial Office:
Editor In Chief
Sumru Belger Krody
Senior Curator, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
skrody@gwu.edu
Associate Editor
Lynora Williams
Librarian, Arthur D. Jenkins Library, George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
lynorawilliams@gwu.edu
Editorial Assistant
Evan Packer
tmjournal@gwu.edu