The Newsletter 89 Summer 2021
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This issue’s Focus articles reflect upon the changing roles of textiles in society. Some of the articles were discussed during an online conference in October 2020, organized by IIAS with the assistance of Sandra Sardjono of the Tracing Patterns Foundation in Los Angeles, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood of the Textile Research Centre (TRC) in Leiden, and Chris Buckley, Oxford. The articles explore ever-present processes of adoption and adaption of ‘foreign’ elements into a local cultural context.