Member Program: Early Chinese and Wiener Werkstätte Textiles in the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection

Join us as we explore two significant groups of artworks within the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection. Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer will discuss textiles designed for the 20th century Viennese design collective, the Wiener Werkstätte, by artists such as Josef Hoffmann, Lotte Frömel-Fochler and Koloman Moser, and their influences from other Japanese and Indian artworks. Lee Talbot will discuss rare Chinese textiles from the Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE), Han (206 BCE–220 CE), and Tang (618–906 CE) dynasties that trace the development of Chinese silk production and influence of cross-cultural exchange on Chinese textile design and technology.

About the Collection

The Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection represents a lifetime of collecting by business leader and philanthropist Lloyd Cotsen (1929–2017) and is one of the world’s most significant textile study collections ever assembled. The nearly 4,000 fragments offer insights into human creativity around the world and from antiquity to the present. Cornerstones of the collection include fragments from Japan, China, pre-Columbian Peru, and 16th-to 18th-century Europe. 

About the Presenters

Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer is academic coordinator for the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center. Dr. Celio-Scheurer has experience working as a curator (Rietberg Museum in Zurich) and teaching (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland). She also spent eight years in India consulting on projects for UNESCO. She holds a doctorate in art history from the Sorbonne, and a master’s from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.  

Lee Talbot joined The Textile Museum as a curator in 2007, specializing in East Asian textiles. He has curated numerous exhibitions and published catalogues, articles, and textbook chapters. Talbot was previously curator at the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum in Seoul, Korea. He has a bachelor’s from Rhodes College, MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and master’s from Bard Graduate Center.

How to Participate

You can register for this program online. After you register, we will email you a link and instructions for joining our program online via Zoom. Simply follow that link at the time the event starts (1 p.m. EST). When you register, you can also ask to receive a reminder email one day before the program with the link included.  

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