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4 OATG EVENTS PROGRAMME Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 5.45 pm A Biography of the Cloud Collar The changing role of dress in Chinese ceremonial culture By Rachel Silberstein Rachel is a DPhil student at Oxford and is just completing her study of Chinese dress Wednesday 11 November 2009 AGM at 5.45 followed at 6.15 by a talk Felts in Central Asia through time and place by Dr Stephanie Bunn Lecturer and author of the recent book Nomadic Felts Wednesday 9 December 2009 Dr Ruth Barnes has kindly offered to give two guided visits at The Textiles Gallery in the New Ashmolean Museum The visits will be at 11am and 2.30 pm and numbers will be limited. Please book with the programme coordinators indicating your preferred time on or after Wednesday 11 November. Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 5.45pm Researching Stories and Dance in Bali By Fiona Kerlogue, Deputy Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum, London. Author of numerous articles and books relating to Southeast Asia Talks are held at the Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford. Refreshments from 5.15pm.Visitors welcome (£2) Programme Coordinators: Rosemary Lee 01491 873276 rosemarylee143@btinternet.com Fiona Sutcliffe 01491 872268 j.v.sutcliffe.t21@btinternet.com
5 NEWS Textile Museum shows ikats, Japanese high fashion The Textile Museum in Washington DC is holding a number of exhibitions this autumn that will be of interest to OATG members. Colors of the Oasis, which began in mid-October, features a selection from the 148 high calibre Central Asian ikats given to The Textile Museum by collector Murad Megalli in 2005. The stunning, colorful textiles on view include coats for men and women, and women‘s dresses and pants (trousers), as well as cradle covers, hangings and fragments -- all on view for the first time ever. Also running until next April is an exhibition of the Mary Baskett Collection, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s. The Japanese avant garde designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto are all well represented in her collection. And anyone who has not yet seen the online exhibition ‘Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four centuries of Ottoman Embroidery‘ can find some wonderful exhibits first shown at the museum in 2000 at http://www.textilemuseum.org/fsg/gallery/thumbnails_frmset.html Newsletter rises out of the ashes of Hong Kong society Bonnie Corwin, who edited the newsletter of the Hong Kong Textile Society until its demise earlier this year, has launched a new publication, called Textiles Asia. She says that ―Textiles Asia is aimed at those with an established knowledge in all aspects of Asian textiles, as well as those who are just beginning their interest in this ever wide-ranging field of study.‖ She has gathered round her an impressive group of contributing editors, including Dale Gluckman, retired curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Valery Garrett, Hong Kong-based Chinese clothing scholar. Textiles Asia newsletter will be published three times a year (spring, autumn and winter). The inaugural issue features an article by architect Bernhard Bart describing the revitalization of western Sumatra songket weaving (brocaded fabrics featuring metallic threads) in the late 1960s following its suppression under Japanese occupation in the 1940s. Sally Yu Leung, an independent curator and teacher who serves as a commissioner at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, writes about the meaning of the ―yinxitu‖ or pictures of boy‘s at play, commonly known as one hundred children and its resonance within the contemporary culture of the People‘s Republic of China. And collector Paul Prentice writes about his collecting philosophy. The newsletter editor, Bonnie Corwin, has designed packaging and displays in the cosmetic industry in New York, working for Revlon, Clairol and L‘Oreal. Her love of Asian textiles developed in the early 1980s when she lived in Hong Kong for two and a half years. Travel to Thailand, Laos, Indonesia and other South East Asian destinations introduced her to the fascinating world of batiks and ikats. Bonnie and her husband returned to Hong Kong in 2005 where she became a member of the Textile Society and eventually editor of the newsletter, a job she continued after moving to Japan in 2008. The Textiles Asia newsletter editorial board includes Dorothy Berry, Norrie Peal and Lisbet Rasmussen, all former members of the Textile Society of Hong Kong executive committee. John E. Vollmer, Advisor. Contributing editors: Valerie Foley, Valery Garrett, Dale Gluckman, Gill Green, Linda McIntosh and Pramod Kumar. Subscriptions manager, Debbie Leung. For more information about Textiles Asia newsletter or for a free copy of the inaugural issue please contact: Bonnie Corwin, Textiles Asia newsletter, P.O. Box 423, General Post Office, Hong Kong. Tel: Japan 81-(0)3-3440-2205 or email: bonniecorwin@gmail.com
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