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Curator Thweep Rittinaphakorn exhibits and describes some of
the textiles in the Siam Society’s collection.
Siam Society. Bangkok, Thailand. November 14, 2013. The Siam Society has a collection of Asian
textiles, which have trickled in as donations over many years, but the textiles
have never been properly catalogued nor displayed until now, when textile
expert, Thweep Rittinaphakorn, has taken charge and is beginning the exacting
task of being the curator of the collection. The purpose of tonight’s lecture, “Textiles
Appreciation: An Introduction to the Textile Collection of The Siam Society,”
was to introduce us to the collection and to display, for the first time, some
of the important textiles in the collection.
According to Kh. Thweep, there are three reasons to be
interested in textiles: (1) their beauty
(that describes me); (2) learning about the techniques and materials use to
produce artistic textiles, such as the looms and yarns; and (3) as anthropology,
that is, what we can learn from textiles about the culture and lives of the
people and societies from which they spring.
I have a beautiful textile hanging in my condo (see photo),
but I don’t remember anything about buying it, except that I think it is from
northern Thailand. Had I thought of it,
I would have taken a photo to the lecture to ask Kh. Thweep to identify it for
me; regardless, I think it is just a beautiful as some of the textiles in the
collection.
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| From the Siam Society collection. |
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| From the collection. |
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| From the collection. |
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| From the collection. |
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Textile from northern Thailand, which I bought many years
ago and have hanging in my Bangkok condo.
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