Webinar: "Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles" in The Nelson-Atkins Museum. Saturday, October 30, 2021, 10 am Pdt / 1 pm Edt, Sponsored by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California. Register for free: https://tinyurl.com/TmaSplendorRgRbt. For the first time in decades, rarely seen Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish clothing and textiles from the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are assembled for an extraordinary exhibition. Made with fine materials, exemplary techniques, and superb artistry, Asian luxury textiles were prized domestically and were central to global trade. Sturdy wall hangings and furniture covers transformed palaces, temples, and homes, while shimmering tapestry-woven carpets were created as diplomatic gifts for foreign rulers. Covering the highlights of the exhibition from the 1500s to today, this talk will include two outstanding and historically important classical Persian carpets; velvet tent hunting fragments and some Kashmir shawls and hangings; several Chinese court robes and interior furnishings; and Japanese theatre robes and Meiji-era tapestries. Please join our presenters, curators Dr. Ling-en Lu, Dr. Kimberly Masteller and Yayoi Shinoda in Kansas City as they present some of the textile masterworks in this special exhibition. Register for free: https://tinyurl.com/TmaSplendorRgRbt. For more details, contact info@tmasc.org.