About OATG
Chinese Formal Robe for a Man
19th Century
Ashmolean Museum
EA1975.29
In 1995 Dr Ruth Barnes founded the Oxford Asian Textile Group with the aim of making the Oxford textile collections better known to specialists and the interested public.
​Oxford has unusual and important collections of textiles from Asia and the Islamic world. The University's Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum have major holdings. In the Department of Eastern Art in the Ashmolean there are more than 3,000 textiles from Asian cultures, while the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum are believed to number twice that. However, OATG also looks outside Oxford and welcomes speakers and contributors to its journal from all around the world.
Ceremonial textile, or maa' from Sulawesi, c. 1900
Ashmolean Museum
EA1996.19
What do we do?
OATG offers an annual programme of events including lectures, study visits and seminars, covering a wide range of subjects.
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OATG publishes Asian Textiles three times a year.
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As well as this website, OATG has a blog and a facebook page which have topical material as well as abstracts from the journal.
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You do not have to be a specialist to become a member, everyone with an interest is welcome.
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Committee
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Chair
Helen Wolfe
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Treasurer
Sheila Allen
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Membership
Judith Kennard
Secretary
Cecilia Lloyd
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Programme Coordinators
Felicitas von Droste zu Hülshoff
Imogen Catling
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Journal Editor
Gavin Strachan
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Website Manager
Marwa Ahmed
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Members at large
Julia Nicholson (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Clare Pollard (Ashmolean Museum)
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Embroidered Ottoman Wall Hanging
c. 1700, Ashmolean Museum
EA2007.104
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