Opening Saturday: The Cloth that Changed the World

September 10, 2020 Welcome back to the ROM! Exhibitions to explore, galleries to wander, everything to discover. Book your timed-tickets online today Visit Us | More Exhibitions | More Events | Support Us | Accessibility | Membership | Museum Tours OPENS SATURDAY The Cloth that Changed the World: Indian's Painted and Printed Cottons Opens Saturday, September 12 Included with Museum admission Made with novel cotton, vivid colours and exuberant design, the painted and printed cottons of India changed human history; they revolutionized art, fashion and science wherever they went around the globe. Featuring pieces from the Museum’s world-renowned collection, this ROM-original exhibition explores how over thousands of years India’s artisans have created, perfected and innovated these printed and painted multicoloured cotton fabrics to fashion the body, honour divinities, and beautify palaces and homes. Discover how through trade-routes, encounters, and exchange, these cloths connected cultures, inspired imitation and, quite literally, changed the world.  Buy tickets ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE Exhibition Highlight Map Delve deeper into the ROM-original exhibition The Cloth that Changed the World: India's Painted and Printed Cottons with this free descriptive audio tour. Download now Ask ROM Anything Thursday, September 10; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Tune in to Instagram Live where Dr. Sarah Fee, lead Curator of The Cloth that Changed the World, who will be taking your questions on this highly anticipated ROM-original exhibition. Find out more LOOK BACK Origins of Chintz, The Exhibit: A Look Back to 1970 This week, the ROM will once again share with the world its renowned collection of Indian chintz in a new exhibition. Look back at the ROM’s landmark exhibition The Origins of Chintz, which opened 50 years ago in April 1970. Occupying the whole of the central ground gallery, known today as Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery, the exhibition displayed nearly 100 towering examples of Indian ‘chintz’.   Learn more All images courtesy of ROM unless otherwise noted. Woman’s jacket. Made in coastal southeast India for the Dutch market; used in Hindeloopen, Friesland. Mordant-dyed and resist-dyed cotton, 18th century, 57.8 cm. For media inquiries, please contact media@rom.on.ca The ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario.  You are receiving this email because you expressly consented to receive ecommunications from romnews@rom.on.ca or because you have a recent business relationship with the ROM. Please add romnews@rom.on.ca to your address book to ensure we land in your inbox. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of this email.

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