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15/10/2026

15/10/2026

Flora Kovacs-Wester is a TRC Fellow, and as part of her research into Japanese kasuri weaving, she recently had the opportunity to interview Japanese textile designer Hana Mitsui about her practice and her approach to traditional Japanese textiles. She wrote a blog about the subject, which can be downloaded here: https://tinyurl.com/2xm5z4ye

Illustration: Tokyo-based textile designer Hana Mitsui. Photograph: www.hanatextiledesign.com

15/10/2026

TRC mini-exhibition: "A language of the hands. Embodied Knowledge and Transmitted Memory in Indonesian Buton Sarongs." This mini-exhibition at the TRC is curated by Minsook Kang, who is an intern at the TRC. She is a visual artist and researcher working across textiles, moving images, installations and publications. She explores stories, memory, and embodied knowledge through forms of care, attention, and material engagement. In the summer of 2026 she visited the island of Buton in Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

The exhibition explores the Buton sarong as a form of embodied and transmitted knowledge.

Drawing on TRC collections and fieldwork in Baubau, the island's capital, the exhibition traces how patterns, motifs, weaving practices, and memories that are transmitted across generations through speech, observation, and the hands. As a strong oral tradition culture, the sarong emerges as a living textile language shaped by everyday life, nature, and generations of makers.

The exhibition can be visited until 20th of November 2026. The TRC is open every weekday from 10.00 to 15.00.

Illustration:
-Producing sarongs on the island of Buton. Photograph by Minsook Kang.

15/10/2026

15/10/2026

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