Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

With Stephanie Endter (curator Education, Weltkulturen Museum)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Stephanie Endter provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION „THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking“

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Berit Mohr provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “Resist-dye techniques: The play of colours and ikat strands”

With Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum)

Threads, materials and patterns are taken for granted as a natural part of our daily life. Around the world, textile ideas and terms shape our language, narratives, stories and myths. The making of textiles stimulates our spatial and mathematical thinking.

Taking the museum’s textile collections from the Americas, South East Asia, Oceania and Africa as a basis, curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski reflects on and presents the culturally diverse techniques of textile production.

Many tools, fibres, materials and other artefacts are shown to the public for the first time, including such pieces as an ikat scarf from a material interwoven with silver threads, a pre-Columbian coca bag from the Andes, a Maori cloak – a status symbol – as well as plush-textured raffia cloths from Central Africa.

Learn more about the exhibition “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION „THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking“

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Berit Mohr provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ TALK

“The future of traditional craftsmanship in Bangladesh? A sustainable Perspective”
Sven Bergmann and Lisa Wagner (Hessnatur, Butzbach)
Wednesday, 8th March, 7pm

Sven Bergmann and Lisa Wagner take the example of classic selvedge denim jeans from material woven on hand looms and dyed with natural indigo, a plant growing in Bangladesh, to explain and discuss model production techniques there.
 

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
In German
€5 / reduced €2.50

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Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION „THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking“

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Berit Mohr provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

With Eva Raabe (curator oceania and acting director, Weltkulturen Museum)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Eva Raabe provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONSERVATORS GUIDED TOUR “Simply iron?”

With Kristina Werner (conservator, Weltkulturen Museum)

What does the work of conservators involve? What are their tasks in setting up an exhibition? And are the textiles in a museum ever ironed? Our conservator Kristina Werner provide not just the answers, but also a rather different perspective on the exhibition.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR

“New patterns for old”

Where do our clothes come from? What are the different manufacturing processes they go through? After exploring THE COMMON THREAD exhibition, we redesign rejected T-shirts using a hot press. Please bring along a T-shirt!

From 6 years old
€6. No registration required
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION „THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking“

With Bea Barrois (Artist and Art Educator)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Bea Barrois provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR

SATOURDAY: “Colourful patterns”

How are patterns created? Are they woven, dyed or braided? We encounter snakes, pampas cats, and lamas as well as large-format photos with integrated codes. After visiting the exhibition THE COMMON THREAD, we design our own patterns and transfer them to fabrics.
 

 

 

 

For families with children from six years old
Free. Registration required
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29
FULLY BOOKED!

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “THE COMMON THREAD”

With Julia Friedel (curator Africa, Weltkulturen Museum)

Threads, materials and patterns are taken for granted as a natural part of our daily life. Around the world, textile ideas and terms shape our language, narratives, stories and myths. The making of textiles stimulates our spatial and mathematical thinking.
Taking the museum’s textile collections from the Americas, South East Asia, Oceania and Africa as a basis, curator Julia Friedel reflects on and presents the culturally diverse techniques of textile production.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION “THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking”

With Nora Schön

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Nora Schön provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ THEME RELATED GUIDED TOUR

“The material of myths: Sacred robes and textile cosmogonies”
With Matthias Claudius Hofmann (research assistant, Weltkulturen Museum)

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ TALK

“The global footprint. The causes and consequences of the textile manufacturing chain”
With Vivek Batra (CEO of hessnatur, Butzbach)
Wednesday, 29th March, 7pm

Vivek Batra, who has worked in the international textile sector for many years, discusses the historical back­ ground and global dimensions of the textile industry.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
In German
€5 / reduced €2.50

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