Postcards from Afar: Highlights from the Collection of Dr. Jean Andrews

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Slide presentation with exhibition details on "Postcards from Afar: Highlights from the Collection of Dr. Jean Andrews," curated by Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker in 2005.

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23 slides : col.

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Slide presentation with exhibition details on "Postcards from Afar: Highlights from the Collection of Dr. Jean Andrews," curated by Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker in 2005.

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23 slides : col.

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Slide number (1): Slide featuring the title of the exhibition and three images suggesting travel. Slide number two (2): featuring curator information and three images suggesting polaroid photos of travel and the exhibition's content. Slide number three (3): of the layout of the exhibition in a broad cross-shaped gallery space with pedestals and platforms throughout, represented on a light yellow, parchment-like background and with black text. Slide number four (4): featuring text about a "Cobra" headdress and with two images of a red and turquoise accessory. Slide number five (5): featuring text about a "cholo" garment and two images of the heavily embroidered red, black, and gold garment. Slide number six (6): featuring text about a Pakistani quilt next to two images of the textile design, with a detail showing the narrow bands of black, green, yellow, and red fabric pieces creating a checkered geometric pattern. Slide number seven (7): featuring text about two neckpieces from Turkey and Pakistan, with an image showing two pieces on short black forms and another image with the texture of tiled metal disks. Slide number eight (8): information about hats and headgear, presented with images suggesting travel. Slide number nine (9): of three headpieces with components extending downward and created with rope, beads, and shells, shown on three invisible mounts on a platform in an off-white gallery space. Slide number ten (10): three rows of small white pedestals mounted on a wall, each featuring a traditional hat on an invisible stand. Slide number eleven (11): featuring information about two blouses and an image of the long red and black and shorter sleeved red and green garment. Slide number twelve (12): featuring information about "hats from Thailand," including two images, the one on the right a detail of the two on the left, with heavily beaded headpieces in bright colors shown on invisible mounts in a white gallery setting. Slide number thirteen (13): featuring text about "wedding sashes," including two examples in bright red with multicolored floral embroidery. Slide number fourteen (14): featuring text about "Tibetan Sacred Objects" and an installation photograph of a variety of metal and jeweled artifacts in a case with a red base and background. Slide number fifteen (15): featuring text about "Traditional Clothing" and a collage of photographs suggesting travel. Slide number sixteen (16): five ensembles shown on dress forms, all with heavy embroidery and with skirt or coat silhouettes, shown on light yellow low platforms in a gallery setting. Slide number seventeen (17): of six ensembles show on dress forms, all with dense textile manipulation and in a variety of colors, shown on light yellow low platforms in a gallery setting. Slide number eighteen (18): featuring three photographs of densely embroidered red accessories created on fabric grounds, one in a square shape and three other accessories. Slide number ninteen (19): featuring text about tunics next to an image of three tunic-shaped ensembles with beading and embroidery in a light yellow gallery setting. Slide number twenty (20): with text about "Miao Textiles from China" with images in the background and other items suggesting travel. Slide number twenty-one (21): a t-shaped tunic with angled panels extending to the side and narrow panels at the bottom, mounted flat over a light yellow gallery wall. Silde number twenty-two (22): four photographs of rectangular and square highly embroidered square and rectangular textile samples. Slide number twenty-three (23): several ensembles on dress forms mounted in a light yellow gallery space.

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  • Preferred Citation: University Photography from the Texas Fashion Collection (AR1008), University of North Texas Special Collections

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University Photography from the Texas Fashion Collection

Digital collection that documents people and events connected to the University of North Texas submitted from The Texas Fashion Collection in the College of Visual Arts and Design.

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  • August 1, 2023

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  • August 15, 2023

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  • 2005

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  • Aug. 16, 2023, 8:51 a.m.

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Postcards from Afar: Highlights from the Collection of Dr. Jean Andrews, image, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2148927/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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