Networking:

Building a network is important, but finding other people in your line of historical textile work can be very difficult. The Forum wants to give you the opportunity to meet both professional specialists and hobbyists in your field of crafts. You can exchange tips, techniques and hints. Come to see the work of others and get inspired; bring your own projects to work upon in company with other textile experts; share your problems and maybe you will find a solution. We hope that everybody (including ourselves) will be surprised at the number of textile people!

Research:

Research about old textiles - archaeological finds, relics and museum pieces - is a wonderful way to learn from the ancient workers. To give you fodder for brain and fingers, there is a themed set of short lectures every evening, where you can hear about current research in historical textile studies. See what was once possible and hopefully will be again! We also want to contribute to research with our forum, and the Forum with its large number of skilled textile workers is the ideal opportunity to run a large-scale archaeological experiment concerning textile works, like the Spinning Experiment in the Forum 2009.
If you have an experiment project concerning historical textile techniques that you think would fit well into the Forum, please contact us.

Market:

Getting supplies and tools for historical crafts can be difficult or near impossible. To help stock the shelves, we would like to include a small (but high-quality) textile market on the weekend of the forum week.
Unfortunately, the possibility to hold such a market is not always given. However, we still wish to give participants the opportunity to sell or promote their wares, so if you have something of interest to the other participants (information leaflets, books or small goods to sell), please contact us at info@textileforum.org.

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