Conserving an Indian Chintz Cope made in the Eighteenth Century for the Armenian Church Here in the Textile Conservation department of the ROM, Senior Textile Conservator Chris Paulocik and I have

Textiles are an essential part of Mexico’s enduring legacy. Over the course of four millennia, many cultures have flourished. The Maya, the Aztec and other major civilizations developed distinctive

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How Indian chintz transformed fashion, trade, and technology. Of all the remarkable textile traditions that India has bestowed on the world, its printed and painted cotton textiles, popularly known as

The Friends of Textiles and Costume at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) proudly presents Enchanted Threads: The Legendary Textiles of William Morris, a one-night only event on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Our current exhibition The Cloth That Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons explores and celebrates handcrafted textiles made of cotton and natural dyes, known as “chintz.” Any

Cloth in Art, Cloth in Fashion. Folded kalamkari fabrics in dye artist Ajit Das’s workshop possessed an innate ambiguity: when folded, they are pieces of fabric; when unfolded, they reveal themselves

Talks highlight the Museum’s exhibition of Early Islamic Textiles (Toronto, Ontario – August 21, 2014) Tickets are now on sale for the Cairo Under Wraps Lecture Series highlighting numerous aspects of

During Canada’s 2017 Sesquicentennial celebrations, the Royal Ontario Museum hosted an international conference to explore the material culture of textiles through the work and legacies of Dorothy K

Figure 1: Woman’s jacket. Textile made in coastal southeast India, for the Dutch market, eighteenth century. Cotton, hand-drawn, mordant dyed, resist-dyed. Tailored and woven TORONTO, November 20

Visitors are invited to ‘see history unfold’ through India’s painted and printed cottons in a dramatic, exclusive ROM Original exhibition TORONTO, September 8, 2020 – For the first time in 50 years, t

TORONTO, October 24, 2019 — The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the publication of Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz on December 2, 2019. The

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