Did anyone else here sign up for the ZOOM sessions from this conference? Was
scheduled for St. Petersburg prior to Ukraine invasion and is now happening
in Lodz, Poland this weekend. The theme is CODES in textiles with speakers
from around the globe. The sessions happen in the middle of the night here
in Wisconsin, but there are several very interesting topics.

Sara von Tresckow, Fond du Lac, WI
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Looks fabulous. What a wonderful location for a textile conference. I had no idea that I would want to plan a trip to Lodz, Poland!

Sara and all, Don't need to stay awake if you do not feel like. All sessions will be recorded and the link sent to all those with a proper registration (which requires paying a fee).

And yes, a trip to Lodz is well worthwhile specially if the Tapestry Triennial is open to visit. Not many tapestries but a lot of interesting textile art. The city is interesting also, it used to be called the Manchester of Central Europe because of its booming textile industry.

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I’m jealous - I’d love to got to the conference.  We’ve been to Poland several times - it’s a beautiful country with wonderful people.  If you do go - don’t just visit Lodz (which is pronounced like Wodz BTW)- visit Zakopane (where the Pope used to ski), (I bought a beautiful textile and a model spinning wheel there) and Gdansk in the north - which is near Malbork (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbork) which has a fantastic history - part of the Templar legacy, and don’t miss the salt mines - which begins with a W and there’s no way I can spell it but it’s near Krakow. And don’t miss Krakow - an amazingly beautiful city that even the Nazi’s spared in WWII.  And as long as you’re in Krakow - see the Lady and the Ermine which is in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.  And again - as long as you’re in Krakow - - you have to visit Auschwitz - if for nothing else but to pay homage to the many people who died there. And in the Old Town Warsaw (Stare Miasto) there’s a lovely Handcraft store with lots of textiles.  You can spend a day or more in the Stare Miasto - all along one side of the square there’s an amazing museum of the history of Warsaw - it was like being there.  Many of the tour guides have cards showing the devastation of Warsaw in WWII and how they basically picked up all the pieces and put it all back together. There were several places in Gdansk with restorations like that too.