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    Red, Blue, And Family Letters

    ZHdK-AVINA Fonds 2021

    Departement Kulturanalysen und Vermittlung

    Red, Blue, and Family Letters,Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

    Inspired by the history that in the 19th century, agents selling fabrics in other countries communicated with textile companies in Switzerland, mainly through letters sent back and forth many times to get the right designs and sales, I made a connection between Glarus and my hometown in China, and between different periods of time, in a reversed way.

    In my hometown Guizhou, there is a traditional hand-made indigo-dyed batik craft among the villagers. Instead of industrial production, the people there (mostly women) draw the patterns by hand and dye the cloth by hand.

    So I wrote to my hometown, attaching Glarner Tuechli as sample, and asked the craftswomen there to produce these fabrics accordingly and send them to me in Switzerland.

    Red is very popular in the production of textiles in Glarus. So I mainly chose red fabrics as samples. At the same time, the traditional craft in my hometown uses a natural indigo dye from plants - every time I send a red fabric, I receive the reply in blue.

    Details

    • Discipline

      Transdiziplinarität

    • Project Type

      Ausstellung

    • Field of Study

      Departement Kulturanalysen und Vermittlung

    • Authors

      Jiaxi Han

    • Contributors / Further collaborators
      Dan Zhai County Ning Hang Indigo Dyed Batik Workshop
    • Date

      2021