Five colorful tapestries hang in a row. They are intricately woven and suspended in a forest with green and brown foliage in the background and foreground. Marcos Kueh, Kenyalang Circus: Exotic Workers Series, 2023. Industrial woven recycled PET, dimensions vary. From the Surface Design Journal's Summer 2025 Issue, Modern Weavers/New Spirit

Surface Design Association

Arts/Cultural Organization

We at the Surface Design Association (SDA) promote awareness and appreciation of fiber art and support to artists and writers through publications, exhibitions, and events.

We are a community of thousands of textile artists, curators, educators, and enthusiasts across 40 countries and 6 continents. Our community encompasses the breadth and depth of contemporary artists and designers working with or inspired by fiber art and/or textile-based materials, methods, and techniques.

As an organization, we embrace fiber and textiles in the broadest terms including performance, social practice, and sound-based works. If you love textiles, you already belong.

Medium: 
Fiber
The Surface Design Journal. Six journal covers are lined up in a 3x2 gridLeisa Rich, Remaining Behind After Humans Have Gone, 2024. Repurposed and recycled fabrics and clothing, thread, dyes, 36in x 48in x 2in. This textile is crowded with flora and fauna - including vibrant green plants, black birds, and orange and red flowers. Red thread has been stitched in looping motifs throughout the composition.Tina Marais, Sleep in the bed that you made III, 2022. Cotton, tulle, textile paint, 102in x 130in x 1in. Warm gray toned fabric has been cut into strips and woven tightly in some areas while leaving swaths of negative space. The textile is large and hangs from the ceiling against a white wall and wooden floor.Pachia Lucy Vang, peb teb, teb peb (a call to land), 2023. Reverse-appliquéd madder and turmeric dyed silk, 20in x 20in. The artist is working on a piece of red silk stretched across a frame. She is placing pieces of yellow silk down in an intricate pattern.