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From https://cinquewnews.blogspot.com/2016/12/exhibit-hand-woven-textiles-Sardinia.html

An exhibit of hand-woven textiles from Sardinia, Italy, opens at the Italian Cultural Institute - San Francisco on January 19, 2017.

The exhibit will feature contemporary weavings from the few remaining tessitori artigianali, Sardinia's traditional hand weavers, as well as a selection and antique weavings from the Sardinian Regional Textile Museum, MURATS. Sardinian textiles are virtually unknown outside the island, and only a handful of artists still weave by hand using traditional methods.  

Related events include a workshop (at Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley) with Isa and Anna Maria demonstrating Sardinia's unique pibiones technique of weaving; an intercultural project, Intrecciati, that brings collaborators from across the globe together to realize a fiber arts creation led by the Sardinian-born designer Silvio Betterelli; and a screening of I Want to Weave the Weft of Time, a documentary which shows how Sardinia's traditional women weavers demonstrate technical and artistic skill as they create beautiful textiles and weave the fabric of inclusion.

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