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Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen In The Tenth Century Ce, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.

Transnational Ikat: An Asian Textile On The Move, Susan Rogers, Hana Carey, Patricia Giglio, Martha Walters

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Ikat is a ‘textile on the move’ today: moving across borders from Southeast Asia to different parts of the world, moving from ritual use to American fashion wear and other marketplace forms, moving from Asian villages to international museum and art collecting circuits.

Over 40 of these remarkable textiles, both in their deeply ceremonial forms and in their vibrantly commercialized versions, were displayed for exhibition in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. The exhibition focuses on ikats from eastern Indonesia, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Malaysia’s Sarawak state.

Curator Susan Rodgers (anthropology, Holy …

Color And Pattern: Tribal And Contemporary Ikats Of India And Laos, Concurrent Exhibitions, Lentz Center For Asian Culture

Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings

Lentz Center for Asian Culture
www.unl.edu/lentz/
1155 Q St.
(402) 472-5841

Color and Pattern: Tribal and Contemporary Ikats of India and Laos
September 20 - October 15, 2010

Jill Heppenheimer and Joanna Smith have curated this exhibition of contemporary and traditional Lao tribal apparel, drawing upon centuries-old motifs.

Wendy Weiss and Anjali Karolia have curated a presentation of dazzling single and double ikat from India, including documentation of warp and weft ikat preparation.

Mr. Vaghelu G. Vitthalbhai of Somasar, Surrendranagar, Gujarat will demonstrate weft binding in October.

A Calligrapher's Art: Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.

Bukhara: Traditional Weavings From Pre-Soviet Central Asia, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.