Miriam Milgram

Textile Detective: Cultural Clues from Fabric Fragments

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aired June 19, 2021

$5.00

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Textile Detective: Cultural Clues from Fabric Fragments with Miriam Milgram

Part of our Thursday evening SOFA Series presentations, find the program listings online.

About the Presentation
Ethnographic textile researcher Miriam Milgram shares a richly-illustrated presentation on her multi-year research documenting and reproducing 19th-century Western Bulgarian embroidery.

Her own experiences embroidering historic patterns provides a lens for viewing fragments of original embroidery; this, plus on-site research among living craftswomen, led Miriam to an understanding of historical techniques and differences in regional and sub-regional techniques, motifs, and traditions, as well as insights into the girls and women who made and used these pieces.

About Miriam
Interested in textiles from an early age, Miriam has made numerous research trips to the Balkans, including those for her Master’s Thesis and a Fulbright research grant. She has worked with Eastern European textiles at the Smithsonian and as guest curator at the Tamburitzan Folk Art Center in Pittsburgh. She practices most of the techniques that she studies, including fiber preparation, spinning, weaving, lace making, and embroidery.

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