| Newsletter No 38 - 32p, October 2007 - available as a Pdf file to download | |
| Phyllis Nye, our founding editor, retires - Ruth Barnes | |
| And a new editor takes over - Nick Fielding | |
| News: Remarkable find in 2500-year old Chinese tomb; Arts and Ethnology Centre opens in Luang Prabang, Laos; Jun Tomita, master of the Japanese art of kasuri (ikat) weaving; Washington's Textile Museum set for major expansion. | |
| Ceremonial coverlets from Japan: Japanese Fukusa textiles from the Meiji Period - Hiroko McDermott | |
| Japanese wrapping textiles at the Horniman - Fiona Kerlogue | |
| Cataloguing the Iranian Qajar textile collection at the V&A - Jennifer Wearden | |
| OATG visits and meetings: The British Museum Store, the Bhutanese and Indonesian collections of Lesley Pullen and Mary Kinipple's collection of Tibetan textiles | |
| Book reviews: Crafting Beauty in Mondern Japan catalogue for the exhibition: 'Japan's 'Living National Treasures' at the British Museum, Nicole Rousmaniere (ed); Minority Textile Techniques, Costumes from South-West China Ruth Smith (ed); Architectural Textiles: Tent Bands of Central Asia, by Richard Isaacson; Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science, by Dominique Cardon, trans. Caroline Higgit; Material choices: Refashioning bast and leaf fibres in Asia and the Pacific, Roy W. Hamilton and B. Lynne Milgram (eds); Balotra: The complex language of print, Emma Ronald. | |
| Events in the UK and abroad | |
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