The Weird Wide Web 20 Sep 2005 11:28 pm
Textile Museum of Canada
Bless Canada. They provide us not only with the magnificent Virtual Gramophone, which I think I’ve mentioned before, but also the Textile Museum of Canada. It features beautifully photographed textiles from around the world, from a Kuna mola to a Pakistani kurta to modern Kaffe Fassett quilts. I look forward to seeing the online collection grow. (One gap in the collection: no NW Coast button blankets.)
Did you know that Kazakh and Uzbek nomads liked felted rugs better than woven ones when it came to yurt covers and big floor rugs? There you go.
Speaking of the Virtual Gramophone, do check out “Hey you want any codfish?”, which is valuable for its mind-numbing dumbness. It’s possibly the dumbest vaudeville song ever.