Events Stop Press!
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embroidery. Egypt, Ayyubid period (1171-1249). Ashmolean Museum
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Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston: Global Threads: Asian Textiles and Fashion Today 14 May 2011 – 30 June 2012. Global Threads is a ground-breaking new fashion exhibition co-curated by young people from Lancashire. It mixes historic South Asian textiles with today’s catwalk, high street and student fashion.
The exhibition is inspired by a beautiful 18-volume set of fabric sample books – The Textile Manufactures of India – given to Preston in 1866. Many of the patterns, materials and techniques found in this collection are still in use today. Young curators have brought together a truly exclectic mix of men’s and women’s wear – from George at Asda to Dries Van Noten – to show how even the latest trentds reflect a global textile culture. You’ll also find photography by Gavin Fernandes and artwork from Shezad Dawood. See a video of stills from the show.
Young people have catalogued and photographed all 700 fabric samples in The Textile Manufactures of India. You can explore them on this website: www.tmoi.org.uk
This listing below is in no way meant to be comprehensive but aims to provide a 'Stop Press!' notice board of events, details of which have been received since the curent edition of the OATG magazine, Asian Textiles, went to press and for which the next edition may be too late. Asian Textiles is published three times a year in February, June and October with a submission deadline on the first Monday of those months - see magazine. All information on events should be sent, in the first instance, to the Editor of Asian Textiles but last minute information may also be copied to the web editor for inclusion on this page.