The Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine

Another video of the renown Silk Road Symposium in the Penn Museum on March 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Xinjiang Textiles: More Corridors in the Goldmine

The textiles in the "mummy" exhibit touring the USA display a far more interesting array of techniques than the information available in advance indicated. This talk offers further description, analysis, and historical placement both of some remarkable masterpieces and of some pieces that give more insight into early practices for making cloth and clothing. One is impressed again by how much we have lost elsewhere-by how rare and informative these textiles are within the Eurasian archaeological record.