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Online Exhibit from the Craft Council of Newfoundland - Labrador

Online Exhibit by the Textile Museum of Canada "Cloth & Clay"

Online Exhibit of the Textile Collection of National Museum - Lima, Peru
Museo Nacional de Arqueoligia, Antropología e Historia del Peru

Online Selection from Permanent Textile Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (World Arts Museum)

Ongoing Exhbit Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio, USA
Weaving is Life The Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection

Ongoing Exhibit - Gulam-ri, Gangcheon-myeon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Women’s Life Museum (Chaehyeon Natural Dye Research Lab)

Nov 5 - 9, 2007 Sheperd Market, Mayfair, London, England UK
Sarah and Gracie Burnett - Naturally Dyed Clothing

Jul 22 - Aug 18, 2007 de Saisset Museum, San Jose, California USA
Variations of Grass, Light, and the Wind: The Plant Dye Art of Kim Jung Hwa

Past Exhibits - Look here for past exhibits which may have potential contacts for future exhibits that may happen in your area, or if you are looking to exhibit your textiles.

Includes examples of naturally dyed textiles from northern Peru of the Nasca (AD 100-300), the Moche (AD 650-850), the Lambayeque (AD 800-1300), and the Chimú (AD 1450-150).

http://www.textilemuseum.ca/cloth_clay/home.html

A web presentation from their permanent collection of natuarally dyed textiles. Other permanent exhibitions with textiles include the Paracas, the Chimú, the Tawantinsuyu, the Amazonia, and the Andean.

Plaza Bolívar s/n Pueblo Libre, Lima, Peru - Tel: 4 63 50 70 Fax: 4 63 20 09

http://museonacional.perucultural.org.pe/ingles/galeria3.shtml

The textile collection of the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam contains examples from all cultures of the world. The collection includes archaeological clothing and fragments, beautiful Persian textile, embroidery from India and China, an extensive number of Japanese ikat, ceremonial and theatre costumes, an imposing collection of Javanese batik, African beadwork, tree bark cloth from Oceania, dolls, but also accessories such as shoes and hats. The collection has grown to about 11,000 objects. Link below includes online examples from the collection

Willemskade 25, 3016 DM Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tel. 010 - 270 71 72 (general),  Fax 010 - 270 71 82

http://www.wereldmuseum.rotterdam.nl/engelse_site/collectie/collectie_textile.html

The museum offers programs of natural dyeing, tea manner, and traditional plays.
The museum was built by Natural Dyer Min-Jeong Lee, who started exhibiting 3000 remains in regard to life of women, which she has collected for 30 years, on June 2, 2001. The museum also serves as Chaehyeon Natural Dye Research Lab. Not only are remains of the women of the old days exhibited but also the museum possesses woodenware, clothing, accessories, furniture, and utensils.

The museum sits in the closed school building of Gangcheon Elementary School of Gangcheon-myeon and there are a tea manner classroom, a traditional dyes exhibition hall, an art works exhibition hall, Somssibang, and a break room on the first floor, and photographs of wild flowers and dyeing materials are exhibited on the corridor. On the second floor, there is an exhibition hall of traditional clothing and accessories, furniture, and living appliances and other general remains besides children’s clothing and utensils are exhibited.

The museum held a women’s art festival in 2004, opened special exhibitions and a dyeing school to popularize natural dyes, and held a kimchi festival and experience school. During the weekends, national classical musicians and celebrities have performances.

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Ongoing through 2006 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, NY USA
Threads of Time - Woven History of the Andes

Weaving is one of the oldest and most symbolically rich artistic traditions in the central Andean region, an area that includes present-day Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, northwestern Argentina, and southern Colombia. The earliest known Andean textiles were discovered on the northern coast of Peru and date to about 3000 BC. These dazzling works of art are remarkable for the skills required to create them, the complexity of their designs, and their vibrant colors. Extensive use of natural dyes.

200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 USA
Tel: (718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/2004/living-legacies/threads-of-time

This exhibit includes Diné (Navajo) weaving from 4 generations of weavers, including naturally dyed tapestry. Weaver D. Y. Begay assisted in preparing the exhibit and some of her naturally dyed weaving are included.

This exhibition is drawn from the Kennedy Museum of Art's outstanding collection of Southwest Native American weavings and jewelry items, including a rare assemblage of Navajo sandpainting textiles. The exhibition explores how the objects displayed exist at the intersection of a complex web of cultural discourses that reflects traditional Native American cultural practices and modes of representation as well as 20th-century market influences and evolving Euro-American museological and collecting methods. It features objects selected in consultation with a broad variety of individuals representing this multi-cultural environment, including Native American artists and scholars, spiritual leaders, tribal cultural preservation officials, traders, dealers, collectors, museum professionals, art historians, and anthropologists. The exhibition is curated by Jennifer McLerran, Ph.D., Kennedy Museum of Art.

http://www.ohioedu/museum kennedymuseum@ohio.edu 740-593-1304
Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall, The Ridges, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 45701 USA