Inside a “cocoon,” surrounded by a silk layer through which the images of moths and giant cocoons can be noticed; roofed with archival images of sericulture - mulberry tree and…
Without Museum Objects The Silk Museum started to spin a cocoon around itself. After the building’s rehabilitation, the museum will reopen in a new form. The objects are being temporarily…
Tbilisi Silk Weaving Factory, which many of us have heard about, was founded in 1928 inside the former tobacco mill of Tbilisi. The building itself was constructed in 1883 and…
What Is Textile Telling Us? This was the name of an online educational program that the State Silk Museum implemented in March 2021. The workshop focused on personal stories regarding…
Textile making has a long history in Georgia, reflected in the diversity of different handicraft techniques, abundance of designs and wide range of typical imagery. Being a common occupation for…
Collage of archival material, Tamuna Chabashvili, 2020. My practice revolves around the topic of archives and traces. Mapping personal stories, memories, and questions into visual and tactile narratives, for me,…
Research project by artist Nino Kvrivishvili The material was prepared in collaboration with the State Silk Museum. It includes the samples and history of Georgian silk from the Soviet time,…
The starting point of The New Dictionary of Old Ideas is multifaceted research of Central Europe. An artistic exploration of topics concerning identity and urgent socio-political issues was extended by…
“The intérieur [French: interior], in which the soul stores its collection of curiosities and memorabilia, is invalid. Memories cannot be preserved in drawers and file cabinets, but rather in them is indissolubly…
During my internship in the Silk Museum dye collection was the first thing that I had to deal with. These few but various samples preserved in the glass tubes tell…