In The Farrell Auditorium
 

Sarah Fee, Senior Curator of Global Fashion & Textiles, Royal Ontario Museum
 

As no other cloth in history, the painted and printed cottons of India  - known today as “Indian chintz”  - changed the fashion, economies, and relations of people around the globe. Join Dr. Sarah Fee to learn why for thousands of years, India “dressed the world” with its exuberant painted and printed cotton cloth. Delving deeper into pieces featured in the exhibition Global Threads: The Art & Fashion of Indian Chintz, she will explore how from the 18th century Indian chintz sparked the industrial revolution, intensified cotton production in the U.S., and how today artists and fashion designers in India are again revitalizing this ancient textile art. 

This lecture will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register at slam.org to receive the Zoom link.

A closed-captioned recording of the program may be posted on the Museum's YouTube channel and at slam.org at a later date.

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