O GG, nevair, evair.... (as if)
I've braved earthquakes and bullets in my hunt for fabulous fabrics.
Okay, yet again the art/craft binarism going on, permission to beat her about the head with a copy of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, accompanied by a recitation of West's wonderful accounts of Balkan women's embroidery?
Plus, how is that wonderful textiles are only found at the end of the long hard trail in somewhere exotic?
And are old - do we get any sense that she is using her interest in textiles to seek out and encourage modern craft-workers working in or moving on from older traditions? Hmmmm? As opposed to bemoaning the crude commercial travesties?
'The great resources of the rich nations have been used instead to preserve work that isn't a patch on it' - because yeah, there is just so much in the way of resources going into the preservation of women's trad crafts in the West...
And, hello, I don't think the V&A or the BM exactly neglect non-European textiles. Just sayin'.
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