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Tracking sources of Chinese dress and fabrics in museum collections: Part 2
Nearly early all of the early collections of Chinese dress and textiles in North American museums ultimately are traced to the Beijing art market, whether acquired first hand or through the agency of collectors selecting from previously acquired materials. This...
Tracking sources of Chinese dress and fabrics in museum collections: Part 3
Nearly all of the early collections of Chinese dress and textiles in North American museums ultimately are traced to the Beijing art market. This continuing series highlights some of the personalities involved with the movement of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty...
Tracking Sources of Chinese dress and fabrics in museum collections: Part 1
Nearly all of the early collections of Chinese dress and textiles in North American museums ultimately are traced to the Beijing art market, whether acquired first hand or through the agency of collectors selecting from previously acquired materials. This continuing...
Symbol of the moon
This exquisitely embroidered motif of a toad and a rabbit within the white disk of the moon is one of many treasures in the Textile Traces Collection at the Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research. In the 1990s California businessman and philanthropist Lloyd Cotsen...
Bridging fragments
My friend textile artist Gerhardt Knodel has spend the ten years since “retiring” from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2007 producing one remarkable body of work after another. Last year he shared a still-evolving inventive series of new work inspired by fragments of...