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               Next Program - Thursday, October 12, 2024 @ 10 AM
     TEXTILES OF INDIA: 1,000 YEARS OF ART AND DESIGN

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LEE TALBOT
Curator, Textile Museum,
George Washington University Museum





Artists on the Indian subcontinent maintain some of the world’s most ancient and illustrious textile traditions. Generations of cultivators, weavers, dyers, printers, and embroiderers have ingeniously harnessed the region’s rich natural resources to create a remarkable range of fine fabrics. Using examples chosen from the collection of the George Washington University Museum, this lecture will showcase Indian artists’ extraordinary achievements in textile production and patterning.

​Talbot is a curator at The Textile Museum and The George Washington Museum, Georgetown, D.C., specializing in the history of East Asian textiles. He has curated numerous exhibitions and published extensively. He has a B.A. from Rhodes College, an M.B.A. from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and an M.A. and M. Phil. from Bard Graduate Center.

banner image:  Textile  fragment. Gujarat, late 8th to early 9th century
                                  cotton, plain weave, block-printed resist, indigo dye
                                  The Textile Museum 6.118;  Acquired by George Hewitt Myer
image upper left:  Coverlet (thalposh) or dowry wrapper,  Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan, early 20th centuryc
                                    cotton, plain-weave ground with silk embroidery in interlacing stitch (hurmitch), raised satin stitch (kharek),
                                               Romanian stitch and cross stitch
                                    Karun Thakar Collection, London

image lower left:  Shawl or waistcoat (detail), Paithan or Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 1708-09
                                     silk and metal-wrapped thread; plain-weave field, tapestry-woven ends, side and cross borders

                            The Textile Museum 6.315; Museum purchase

LECTURE AVAILABLE ALSO BY ZOOM
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LECTURE Location: peoria Riverfront Museum, 225 SW Washington St. 
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