Exhibition at Textile museum

Exhibition at Textile museum

JAKARTA (JP): The Textile Museum on Jl. Aipda K.S. Tubun in
Central Jakarta will organize an exhibition on natural textile
fibers and dyes from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18, an official said on
Wednesday.

"The exhibition will be held in cooperation with the Korean
Fiber Arts Association. Governor Sutiyoso is slated to open the
exhibition on the evening of Feb. 14," museum director Dewi
Rudiati said in a written statement.

"The exhibition, entitled Reviving the Natural Colors is
intended to motivate textile craftsmen, producers and the
government on the use of natural dyes. It will display the whole
process of natural textile fiber production," she added.

The collections displayed will include those of students from
the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and the Jakarta Arts
Institute (IKJ), local designers and also the Korean Fiber Arts
Association.

"We will also hold a seminar on Feb. 15, titled In Search of a
New Aesthetic of Textile Through Natural Dyes, presenting Yusuf
Affendi from ITB and Kim Je-Hee of South Korea," she said, while
adding that there would be a workshop on batik processing using
natural dyes.

"The workshop is scheduled for Feb. 16 and will take place in
the Balai Batik, Yogyakarta," she said.

She added the museum would also hold a field trip to a famous
batik production center in Cirebon, West Java, and in Pekalongan,
Central Java on Feb. 17.

The museum will be closed to the public from Feb. 6 to Feb.
14. and open again on Feb. 15.

Dewi said the exhibition was the second event jointly
organized with the Korean Fiber Arts Association.

"Last May, we and the Korean Fiber Arts Association held an
international exhibition on textile design and natural dye," she
said.

"We have also cooperated with other textile museums abroad. We
cooperated with the museum of the State of Sabah, Malaysia, in
1989 and established a sister museum with one in the city of
Tilburg, the Netherlands, in 1996," she added. (05)