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Global Threads: How Indian Chintz Forever Changed Fashion and the World
With Sarah Fee, Senior Curator of Global Fashion & Textiles, Royal Ontario Museum
As no other cloth in history, the painted and printed cottons of India—known today as Indian chintz—changed the fashion, economies, and relations of people around the globe. Join Sarah Fee to learn why, for thousands of years, India “dressed the world” with its exuberant painted and printed cotton cloth. Delving deeper into pieces featured in the exhibition Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz, she will explore how from the 18th century Indian chintz sparked the Industrial Revolution and intensified cotton production in the US, and how today artists and fashion designers in India are again revitalizing this ancient textile art.
This program will be offered in person at the Museum and will also be livestreamed. See below for ticketing and registration information.
Tickets for the on-site program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s Information Centers or through MetroTix at metrotix.com or 314.534.1111. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum.
For information about the Museum’s safety protocols, visit slam.org/covid-19-response.
This lecture will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register to receive the Zoom link.
A closed-captioned recording of the program may be posted on the Museum’s YouTube channel and at slam.org at a later date.
