News of what sounds like a fascinating exhibition to be staged in Taiwan at the which is located on Yang Ming Mountain overlooking Taipei city.
The exhibition - "Recovering Lost Woven Treasures" - will run from June 19 through August 31, 2012. It will consist of eighty six reproductions and creative interpretations of beautiful historic textiles from Taiwan’s “first peoples”, the yuanzhumin", woven and embroidered by Professor Yushan Tsai.
Yushan Tsai is an accomplished textile professional, scholar and artist with vision and a mission. The exhibition is the culmination of more than ten years of her research and textile reproduction work.
I was alerted to this upcoming exhibition by Kathleen Forance Johnson who is herself a weaver and lived in Taiwan from 1996-1999 when she met Professor Tsai, an academic at Fu Jen Catholic University in the Department of Textiles and Clothing, College of Human Ecology.
Kathleen has written a very interesting article about the exhibition which she has entitled "Taiwan Aboriginal Textiles: Translations and Transformations, An Exhibition by Yushan Tsai" Kathleen has very kindly sent me the PDF file of her article for me to attach to the forum to share with you all. As a taster I attach a few photos from the article including: Yushan Tsai modeling a beautiful costume from the Rukai indigenous group; weaving at her dobi loom; a reproduction by her of heads motif from an old Paiwan tribe textile; and her showing needle weaving a Rukai embroidery pattern on the loom.
With Kathleen's agreement I am planning to convert the PDF file to a web article as part of the 'studies, articles and exhibitions' section of the main
www.tribaltextiles.info website. When it is live I will put a link into this thread.
We have already been privileged to see some of Yushan Tsai's meticulous and beautiful reproductions of yuanzhumin textile patterns on the forum e.g. See a post of mine in Nov 2009
http://www.tribaltextiles.info/communit ... =4669#4669
Reading Kathleen's preview of the upcoming exhibition only increases my admiration for Yushan's meticulous and beautiful work - and, of course, the original textiles on which her reproductions are based. If anyone has the chance to see this exhibition it certainly looks to be a treat! Meanwhile I commend Kathleen's article to you.
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Pamela
http://www.tribaltextiles.infoon-line tribal textiles resource
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