How India’s Cotton Cloth Forever Changed Fashion and the World with Dr. Sarah Fee | Opening Lecture

SATURDAY | DECEMBER 13 | 1:30 – 3 PM
NORMA KERSHAW AUDITORIUM | OPENING LECTURE & Book Signing

Presented by Dr. Sarah Fee, Senior Curator of Global Fashion & Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada

As with no other cloth in history, the painted and printed cottons of India, known today as “Indian chintz,” changed the fashions and economies of people around the globe and helped shape our modern age. Join Global Threads guest curator Dr. Sarah Fee to delve deeper into objects and stories featured in the exhibition, from early natural dyes and the Industrial Revolution to contemporary artists and fashion designers who are revitalizing this ancient South Asian textile art. Purchase the exhibition catalog and get it signed by Sarah Fee after the lecture!

Ticketed Event: Members $15 | General $20

Questions? Email cHJvZ3JhbXMgfCBib3dlcnMgISBvcmc= or call 714.567.3677. Proceeds benefit Bowers Museum Education Programs. Tickets are non-refundable.

Image credit:

Palampore (textile panel)
Coastal southeast India, for the Western market
Chintz: cotton tabby, painted mordants, resist and dyes, gold leaf
around 1720-1740
365.6 × 256.4 cm
934.4.13
Harry Wearne Collection; gift of Mrs. Harry Wearne

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