Textiles of Pakistan with John Gillow

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Wedding Shawl(detail) from Thano Bula Khan, Sind. Photo by John Gillow.

Textiles of Pakistan with John Gillow

Instructor: 
John Gillow
When: 
February 16, 2016
Time: 
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Place: 
Samsung Hall
Fee: 
$15 Society members, $20 non-members (after Museum admission). Online tickets are no longer available, but you may purchase tickets at the door.

Join us for a talk on the traditional textiles of Pakistan presenting a broad survey of the textiles produced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries while placing them in their social and historical content. The talk will concentrate on the fabulous embroidered textiles of Sindh province as well as the woven and embroidered glories of the Punjab and Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier regions of Pakistan.

John Gillow – author, lecturer, traveler, and collector – has spent more than 40 years collecting folk textiles of Asia and Africa. He has written extensively on world textiles including the textiles of India, Indonesia, and Africa. His latest work is "Textiles of the Islamic World."

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