“Hope, that you can wear” is a bilingual touch-and-feel picture book, written in celebration of les enphants’ 50th anniversary. It is inspired by century-old children’s textiles from Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia and explains techniques and symbols, and is also filled with hands-on tactile experiences.
Read MoreA few years ago, I read Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon to my young children. It’s a story about a little girl who lives in the Valley of Fruitless Mountain. As its name suggests, the village is cursed with misfortune and barren soil, and its residents stricken with hunger and poverty.
Read MoreThe idea of textiles as an art medium and art form didn’t take hold until recently because of its gendered assignment and for the fact that weaving, knitting, and sewing were largely dismissed as "women's work."
Read MoreMy mother and I are in a storage room behind
her gallery, its lights shut off so as not to damage the displayed textiles with over-exposure to light. The tem- perature in the storage room is chilly, somehow made more noticeable by the constant double whirring of the air-conditioner and dehumidifier which are always on at full blast because the textile pieces need to be in a tem- perature-controlled room, like wine.