Presented by Surface Design Association​: "This exhibition investigates the many unexplored relationships between craft and technology while demonstrating how contemporary art practice has seamlessly embraced both. Join us on January 21 as Christine Duval, Curator of Cut From the Same Cloth: Textile & Technology, discusses the exhibition’s concept and highlights several featured artists, exploring how their practices— whether rooted in weaving or in digital innovation—intersect in unexpected ways.​" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 2 PM EDT.

More from the Surface Design Association​ (SDA):

"Textiles have not only fueled the creative inspiration of artists throughout history, but they have also provided the catalyst for technological innovation. Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French merchant, invented the “jacquard machine” in 1801, which simplified the manufacture of textiles and later became the inspiration for IBM's first computer introduced in the 1940s and 1950s.

Some of the artists are technologists, others are weavers, yet their approaches are far more connected than most realize. Textiles and computing are rarely seen as related fields, but this exhibition reveals their deep historical connection and how artists navigate fluidly between both worlds."

This Textile Talk takes place, Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Future installments are held online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) each Wednesday.

The video will be recorded and will be able to view later.

Click here, or the image below, to register for the Textile Talk.