Van maandag 25 tot/met donderdag 28 november a.s. organiseert het TRC een aantal activiteiten rond het thema van Atayal wevers in Taiwantraditioneel textiel en het verven van textiel in Taiwan. Het programma wordt mede georganiseerd door de Taipei National University of the Arts, en het International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden). Het programma wordt financieel ondersteund door het Taiwanese Ministerie voor Cultuur. De activiteiten omvatten een tentoonstelling, een serie lezingen, en een aantal workshops waar de deelnemers een inleiding krijgen op het oude Taiwanese ambacht van het verven van textiel met indigo. De meeste activiteiten vinden plaats bij het TRC, en U wordt verzocht U daarvoor te registreren, maar er is op dinsdag 26 november ook een lezingenprogramma in het Gravensteen, in het centrum van Leiden. Voor dit gedeelte van het programma wordt u verzocht de website van het IIAS te raadplegen, www.iias.nl

Exhibition: Textiles in Transition:

The Spinning of Life

among the Atayal of Taiwan 

TRC, 25^th November – 28^th November 2013 (4 days only!!)

The Atayal people, one of the 14 indigenous communities in Taiwan, believe that the lifetime of a human being is woven by god. A woven product made by Atayal woman forms a circle when it is finished. This exhibition, ‘The Spinning of Life,’ adopts the form of a circle, allowing engagement with many other circles. It shows the interaction between people, and emphasizes that the opening of each circle sends out welcoming messages for more people to join. This installation piece is surrounded by Atayal traditional dresses belonging to different life stages. This temporary exhibition celebrates various types of Atayal woven forms and includes individual textiles and various outfits.his (very) temporary exhibition celebrates various types of Atayal woven forms and includes individual textiles and various outfits.

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26 November, 15.30, TRC: Lecture and demonstration

Atayal Traditional Weaving

and Its Contemporary

Transformation (Ms. Yuma Taru)

Ms. Yuma Taru, having a Han Chinese father and an Atayal mother, is the founder of the Lihang Studio in the Atayal Xiangbi (象鼻) community in central Taiwan. She started to learn traditional Atayal weaving skills from grandmother and her sisters after she returned to the tribe from her teaching and civil official position in urban and mainstream society. Ms. Yuma Taru decided to record and rebuild the traditional techniques through the founding of the Lihang Studio. In the first decade of running the studio, she revived the traditional Atayal classification system of textiles and rescued once-endangered weaving and dyeing crafts. Over the second decade she is striving to cultivate young talent. Now, the studio is becoming a social enterprise, and she hopes to establish an Atayal Ethnic School. In this lecture, Ms. Yuma Taru will share her personal journey in Atayal weaving and will also give a demonstration of traditional back-strap loom weaving.

The lecture and demonstration will take place at the TRC on Tuesday 26^th November 2013. The programme will start at 15.30 with some words of welcome by the director of the TRC, followed by the lecture.. The lecture is followed by a view of the exhibition and a reception. Please register in advance at Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken..

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 Indigo Dyeing: lectures and workshops

Reviving Indigo: A case in Taiwan (Ms CHENG Mei-Shu and Mr. CHO Tzu-Lo)

27^th November 2013 at the TRC, Hogewoerd 164, Leiden

Indigo dyeing had been in Taiwan for hundreds of years, but all disappeared from ordinary life in the twentieth century due to the import of chemical dyes. In the 1990s, researchers started to revive this traditional craft. The Zhuoye Studio intends to preserve the traditional techniques as well as to improve the production process with modern technology. They also hope to bring the indigo memories back into everyday life. They make indigo clothes, everyday items, decorative items and artworks in order to bring indigo back into their daily experiences and allow more people to get close to this clean and non-toxic traditional industry.

In this lecture and workshop, they will in fact have three indigo workshops which focus on forming beautiful indigo motifs with chopsticks, wooden sticks and rubber bands; or with wax-resist techniques (batik). Before the workshops, a 20-minute introductory lecture presents the traditional processes and techniques involved in producing indigo dyes, touches upon the historical development of the indigo industry in Taiwan and introduces the Zhuoye Studio.

• Workshop 1: 09.00 – 11.00 (max. 10 participants)
• Workshop 2: 11.30 – 13.30 (max. 10 participants)
• Workshop 3: 14.00 – 16.00 (max. 10 participants)

These workshops are open to the general public and are free. If you would like to attend one of the workshops, please register as soon as possible at the TRC at Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.