The Textile Resource Centre houses a comprehensive range of facilities providing a diversity of functions and services to the community and incoming visitors.

 

See our collection of hand-looms varying in size, form and ethnicity. From simple rigid heddle table looms to 6-heddle floor looms. Some old, some new. All intact and operating.

 

Workshops participants have full access to weaving equipment and materials.

 

Residents with prior knowledge are welcome to use these facilities, or to propose a workshop during their stay at Jinze Mansion.

 

Themed exhibitions and special textile events are held at the Exhibition Gallery. It is a space for open forum and dialogue with the art and craft community.

 

The Centre's reference library contains hundreds of books and journals devoted to the historical, technical, and cultural study of textiles, in particular on China. Computers provide access to the collection database, which offers images and descriptive information about the Centre’s collection items, maximizing the information available to scholars and the public while minimizing the textiles' exposure to light, dust, and handling.

The textile archive was built on a private collection collected over 20 years ago, at present, reaching to over 5000 items. The collection includes items from different regions of China, embracing different minority groups, with a diversity of materials, techniques, functions and forms, dating from Qing dynasty to the present.

 

The Centre provides the environmental conditions necessary for the long-term preservation of these fragile works of art, as well as study and research facilities for internal staff and the general public. It includes onsite access to the collection database, study space for the examination of the textiles themselves, and a reference library for the historical, technical, and cultural study of textiles.

 

• Village Style
• Vista Suite
• Vintage Suite

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