Fabric - Material - Cover. Textiles are present everywhere and always in the daily processes of human action, yet they rarely step out of the shadow of the bodies they accompany. In this volume, ten authors from art, philosophy, biology, and art and cultural studies approach the textile medium as a phenomenon of boundaries, limitation, and transcendence. Drawing from their respective disciplines, the authors describe the functions of the tangible and symbolic textile and carefully weave a historically-anthropological web of meanings surrounding the textile medium. The authors: Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Lili Fischer, Heidi Helmhold, Dietmar Kamper, Karin Maak, Heide Nixdorff, Wolfgang Schad, Katharina Sykora, Dagmar Varady-Prinich, Barbara Vinken. The textile as an interdisciplinary boundary crosser, as an unlimited material for a wide variety of forms.