ATA-LA SPONSORS BORNEO TEXTILE WEAVERS FROM SARAWAK, MALAYSIA. PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, 2003 Members of ATA-LA and visitors to weaving exhibition discuss Indonesian and Borneo textiles. Sumatran textile specialists and authors John and Anne Summerfield (center-left) attend weaving exhibition. Famed Borneo textile expert Edric Ong (left) of Sarawak discusses his publications with noted Borneo textile collector Gerry Masteller (who made a special trip from the Bay Area for this event!). Edric Ong (center) and ATA-LA member Jerry Solomon (right) discuss the merits of Borneo weavings with Borneo textile collector Phil Shugar, who also made the trip down from the Bay Area. Los Angeles area textile collectors Mary Jane Leeland (left), Cindy Bendat (right) and Clare Graham (front) examines a group of rare textiles from Indonesia and Hainan Island, China. Edric Ong and Phil Shugar in an intense discussion on the motifs and symbols of Borneo weavings. ATA-LA member Vanna Lacy watches as one of the Iban-Dayak weavers wraps the warp threads before immersion in the dye bath. Wearing ceremonial clothing, one of the last Iban-Dayak weavers in Sarawak still able to work in the old Ikat method, works on a traditional backstrap loom. Mathew Ng, a well-known Kenyah-Dayak musician and bark cloth painter from Sarawak, plays the traditional Sape (guitar) during the weaving exhibition.   Home Galleries LA Location Map Events Page Spotlight References

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