Fabric Textiles News
With Cloth, Thread And Needle Comes The Fabric Of Jewish Life
Wednesday March 19, 1997
THE YEAR Melbourne hosted the Olympics was the year of the Suez crisis. It was also when couturier Leon Haskin made the Gown of the Year, which was photographed by Athol Shmith. That gown and the photograph are on show at the Jewish Museum in St Kilda, along with items that came to Australia aftBatik Clothing: A Tradition Which May Be Fading Away
Saturday March 15, 1997
Ordinary Indonesians can no longer afford to buy their national fabric. LOUISE WILLIAMS, Herald correspondent, reports from Yogyakarta. The old women laugh dismissively, their backs hunched over their fabric, their brown, lined hands deftly tracing in fine strokes of wax the motif of the batik. Historic Asian Weaves Cast An Opulent Spell
Tuesday March 11, 1997
VISITING Woven Magic at Monash University is like entering another world - a distinctive domain of solemn, sonorous color, exquisite crafting and decorative opulence far beyond anything offered by contemporary culture. We are privileged to see some of the finest textiles made in India and South-Eas