The Association of TEXERE resulted from the first ever European conference for people involved in Textiles Education at all levels in 1990 in Kehl, Germany. It was organised by the German association Fachverband Textilunterricht, who had invited over 600 representatives of schools and universities from all over Europe. As a result, a group of us decided to form a European textiles teaching association. After meetings in Gothenberg and Helsinki we finally formed the group TEXERE, Textiles Education and Research in Europe, which included textiles education research which is important in Scandinavian countries.
Curator: Patricia Christy.
Participants: Marianne Puschner & students of BAKIP Secondary school (Austria), Julia Astreou (Cyprus), Caroline McNamara and “Seamless”group (England), Patricia Christy and members of the Octopus Creative Textiles group (England), Pamela Hardesty and students of Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork (Ireland), Renata Pompas and digital textiles students at AFOL MODA, Milano (Italy), Hanny Spierenburg and Breed Textiel Overleg (Netherlands), Cathryn Amidei and Y Collective – students at the School of Technology at Eastern Michigan University, (USA).
