Interwoven Globe
The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
September 16, 2013–January 5, 2014
An incredible exhibition is currently on in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
is the first major exhibition to explore the international transmittal
of design from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century through the
medium of textiles. It highlights an important design story that has
never before been told from a truly global perspective.
The exhibition features 134 works, about two-thirds of which are
drawn from the Metropolitan Museum's own rich, encyclopedic collection.
These objects are augmented by important domestic and international
loans in order to make worldwide visual connections. Works from the
Metropolitan are from the following departments: American Decorative
Arts, Asian Art, Islamic Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts,
The Costume Institute, European Paintings, Drawings and Prints, and Arts
of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. They include numerous flat
textiles (lengths of fabric, curtains, wall hangings, bedcovers),
tapestries, costumes, church vestments, pieces of seating furniture, and
paintings and drawings.
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