Webinar: “Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation” with Sheila Fruman, Author and Traveler, Saturday, October 21, 2023. 10 am pt / 1 pm et / 6 pm bst – London, Textile Museum Associates of Southern California & New England Rug Society. Virtual via Zoom. Free Registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMAPullrgrbt Travel has always been inspiring, and in particular “exotic” travel, and especially for creative people. In her new book, “Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation,” author and traveler Sheila Fruman has concentrated on nine intrepid travelers from the 1970s up to now, who, in their youth, combed the streets and bazaars of Central and South Asia finding, researching, collecting and selling antique woven ikat and embroidered Uzbek textiles and robes, Kashmir shawls, Anatolian kilims, Turkmen carpets and many other textile treasures to interested Westerners. This generation of dealers and collectors all made important and even essential contributions to their fields, publishing books, staging exhibitions, and often gifting items to major institutions such as the v&a and Met. The indigenous designs and motifs they popularized in the us and Europe can now be found in anything from haute couture to high-end interior design to mass-marketed bedding, tableware and clothing. These travelers have spent their lives seeking these complex pieces of the past, and have intriguing stories to tell, and collections of some of the finest textiles of their kind in the world. Free Registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMAPullrgrbt Read the Tma-Sc Newsletter for more details, and other organizations’ and institutions’ virtual programs, exhibitions, online articles, videos, and reviews of rugs & textiles: https://tinyurl.com/TMAPullRRNewsltr