Abstract This article preserves the format of a dialogue that was originally held in late 2018 between research colleagues Jessica Hemmings and Birgitta Nordström in the weaving workshop at the Academy of Design and Crafts (HDK), University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The conversation – a “Higher Seminar” in Swedish academic parlance – was intended to expose the breadth of current textile research and inspire colleagues to see across disciplinary boundaries to the unexpected similarities their research interests might share. Jessica Hemmings spoke of her interdisciplinary interest in reading the textile through literature and Birgitta Nordström discussed her ongoing research into the woven textile as an object that can help us confront, and hold, death. These two examples arguably represent extremes along the spectrum of methods used in textile research, but both share an attention to topics often treated with silence that may find useful alternative forms of communication in the textile.

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你如何为微笑添加脚注？纺织研究两个极端的对话

摘要 本文保留了 2018 年底研究同事 Jessica Hemmings 和 Birgitta Nordström 在瑞典哥德堡大学设计与工艺学院 (HDK) 的织造车间进行的对话的形式。这场对话——瑞典学术用语中的“高级研讨会”——旨在展示当前纺织品研究的广度，并激励同事跨越学科界限看到他们的研究兴趣可能会分享的意想不到的相似之处。Jessica Hemmings 谈到了她通过文学阅读纺织品的跨学科兴趣，Birgitta Nordström 讨论了她正在进行的对机织纺织品的研究，作为一种可以帮助我们面对和控制死亡的对象。