OATG Events Programme
The Oxford Asian Textile Group (OATG) annual programme includes a number of talks on a wide variety of textile related topics. Some lecturers are from the UK and some are specialists from overseas who are visiting England and enjoying some time in Oxford. Unless otherwise stated the talks take place in The Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford starting at 5.45 p.m. with refreshments from 5.15 p.m. Visitors welcome (£2). No booking necessary.
Study visits are also arranged to museums and textile centres in Oxford and elsewhere, often to see material that is not on public exhibition. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have the collector of the items, the researcher or the curator, to throw new light on the fabrics. Inevitably numbers must be restricted on these study days.
Wednesday, 1 October* at 5.45 p.m.
'Towards the new Textile Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum'
OATG Chairman, Ruth Barnes and Ashmolean textile conservator Sue Stanton will tell us of their hopes and problems during the creation of the new textile gallery.
*Please note that date changed to 1 October from September date shown in Newsletter 40.
Thursday, 6 November
AGM at at 5.45 p.m. followed by
'The Woven Archipelago: sustaining the traditional arts in contemporary Indonesia' at 6.15
a talk by William Ingram who has worked for a decade with a network of 1,200 traditional natural dye weavers and cooperatives across Indonesia and is also an author and director of Fabric of the Forest, a film about weavers in Kalimantan.
Please note that this meeting is on a Thursday rather than Wednesday as usual.
January 2009
Plans are in hand for a visit to Paris for a few days in mid January. We hve been offered help in arranging visits to key textile museums and possibly the Gobelin factory. We plan to travel by Eurostar and stay in a modest but convenient hotel in Paris. Please contact Fiona or Rosemary if you think you might be interested so that we can keep you informed.
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More information about forthcoming events is given in the newsletters
which come out in February, June and October.
From the 2007 programme: Study visit to the British Museum Textile Store – examining and photographing a textile from Siberia