DECORATIVE TEXTILES Part 4, ROM May 4
Friends of Textiles & Costume, ROM, presents Decorative Textiles
Part four Printed Textiles: An Old Technology, the Challenge from India and the European Response with Hanna Martinsen Friday, May 4, 2012, 5 to 7 pm ROM classrooms 3 and 4
Hanna was the Gervers’ research fellow focusing on French block prints in the ROM’s collection. She received training as an arts and crafts teacher in her native Norway, later receiving textile engineering and arts history degrees in Sweden. More recently she studied chemical and technological changes to the methods of printing textiles in 17th and 18th century France.
Free to FTC members. All others: $20.00 per session.
To register: Call 416.586.5797 or go to www.rom.on.ca/whatson, select by date on “What’s On” calendar.