Textile, Trade and Terror (Owú, Fil, Faden, Thread)

“Textile, Trade and Terror (Owú. Fil. Faden. Thread.) is a multi-sensory inquiry into the entanglements of textiles with history, memory, and reclamation. It follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places and weaving the histories of Bregenz, Lagos, St. Gallen, Vienna, and Dakar into a polyphonic fabric of recollection, refusal, and possible futures. At the heart of this publication lies a quilt: sixteen meters long and three meters wide, it is both artwork and method. Composed of fabrics that bear traces of colonial entanglements as well as resilience, care, and joy, the quilt assembles stories, memories, and gestures into a living archive. It bears witness to relations of power, modes of belonging, and forms of knowledge that have passed through hands, bodies, and generations.” An interdisciplinary investigation of textile cultures, their history and their future; traditions from all over the world are interwoven into a polyphonic fabric, with essays by various authors illustrated with monochrome pictures in various shades and several full-colour reproduced photographs of the quilt, with contributions by Anette Baldauf, Milou Gabriel, Sasha Huber, Janine Jembere, Susanna Delali Nuwordu, Abiona Esther Ojo, Jumoke Sanwo, Yusif Sani Said, Peju Layiwola, Hans Fässler, Ulrike Müller, Fatim Soumaré, Johanna Bramble, and Mariama Sow. Soft cover in dust jacket, 31,5 x 23 cm, 208 pages, ed/500, Vienna 2026 ISBN: 978-3-903353-26-8