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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