Textile Design Student Takes Third Place in National Competition

Textile Design undergraduate student Hillary Anspach was awarded Third Place in the 2014 Alpaca Owners and Breeders Competition.  This is a national competition with awards in Textile Design and Fashion Design categories.  See the following for more information:

http://www.alpacafashion.com/SDCWinners/

Congratulations, Hillary!

Korean Hanbok Seminar

Textile Design Professor Marcia Weiss presented a lecture on Global Textiles at the Hanbok Seminar:  Finding a New Avenue of Fashion with Hanbok on March 1, 2014 at Drexel University.  The presentation was created in collaboration with PhilaU Textile Design alum Hyunsoo Kim.

PHS Flower Show

Sixteen Textile Design students are participating in the 2014 PHS Flower Show "ARTiculture".  Their textile designs inspired floral arrangements for a juried exhibition entitled THREADS.  Here are a few images of students with their textile designs and the resultant arrangements.

Kailey Smith--Textile Design MS student

Becky Flax--Textile Design BS student

Lan Ge--Textile Design MS student

PhilaU Textile Design at The Barnes Foundation

Textile Design students Becky Flax and Erin Stevens presented their work to interested guests at the Barnes Foundation yesterday.  The theme for the day was "textiles".  In addition to speaking to the crowd about Textile Design and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, Erin and Becky spent the afternoon sharing their work from design sketchbooks to finished products. 

Erin Stevens presents information regarding the
MS Textile Design program.

Becky Flax shares some of her work from the BS Textile Design program.

Erin and Becky are joined by Dr. Spinelli, president of PhilaU.