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Navajo chief’s blanket ends up on Antiques Road Show (2004)

LB — Fri, 23 May 2014 18:52:47 +0000

This is for those who haven’t seen this decade-old segment which for some reason has been making the social media rounds again.

It is so nice to see a truly beautiful textile get this sort of attention (and from men too, which speaking as a textiles person rarely happens in North America, in contrast with other parts of the world).

Fleamarket decor in Delhi

LB — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:55:17 +0000

India has the best inventory of vintage and antique furniture—both institutional and domestic—I’ve ever seen. Especially deco and moderne (bench above) not to mention traditional Indian wooden furniture of various vintages.

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Militant Guild of Rural Tailors – Young Meagher

LB — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Young Meagher’s “Militant Guild of Rural Tailors” is apparently a fashion line that doubles as a faux-museological collection of objects and textiles purportedly belonging to a revolutionary worldwide underground cult of rural tailors reaching back into early 19th C history.

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