Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats, an interview with Clarissa Esguerra

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🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, exhibition curator Clarissa Esguerra teaches us all about the sophisticated resist-dying ikat technique responsible for the resplendent textiles and garments on display in LACMA's current exhibition Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats.

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0:00.0	Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and
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1:23.0	Dress, the History of fashion is a production of I Heart Radio. The Whenever 7 billion people in the world we all have one thing in common.
1:49.2	Every day we all get dressed.
1:51.3	Welcome to Dressed The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what,
1:55.8	when of why we wear.
1:56.8	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary.
2:02.0	Well, dress listeners, we have long promised an episode on today's subject,
2:07.0	and I am thrilled that this is a topic we get to cover
2:10.0	with my dear friend Clarissa Esgera,
2:12.0	who just happens to be the associate. with my dear friend Clarissa Esgera,
2:12.7	who just happens to be the associate curator
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