Weaving Paradise – Southeast Asian Textiles and Their Creators
Thanks to the generosity of David Lyman, Chairman and Chief Values Officer of Tilleke and Gibbons International Ltd, members of the Thai Textile Society resident in Thailand have received or will soon receive a complimentary copy of the catalogue for the exhibition “Weaving Paradise – Southeast Asian Textiles and Their Creators.” Tilleke and Gibbons International is the sponsor of the exhibition at the James H.W. Thompson Foundation in Bangkok. The exhibition closes on February 24.
Mr. Lyman is a Life Member of the Thai Textile Society. The exhibition showcases textiles fromtheTillekeandGibbonsTextileCollection, oneofthelargestprivatecollectionsinThailand.
The curator of the exhibition is another Life Member of the Thai Textile Society, Linda McIntosh. A consultant for the Tilleke and Gibbons Textile Collection, Linda, was a founding member of the Thai Textile Society’s steering committee. In that capacity, she made a major contribution to the launch of the Society. She is completing her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Her doctoral research focuses on Phuthai textiles of Laos based on fieldwork completed in Laos in 2004. In 2005, Linda was curator of the exhibition, “Status, Myth, and the Supernatural: Ritual Tai Textiles” at the Jim Thompson Centre for Textiles and the Arts.
The Society would like to thank Mr. Lyman for his generosity to its members and his continuing support of its activities.
The Society is exploring the most economical way of sending this catalogue to its overseas members. If overseas members will be in Bangkok in the next several months, please contact the Society at info@thaitextlesociety.org.
We hope that you will enjoy reading this beautiful catalogue.