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…
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…
In the framework of the project “Art Intervention at the Museum” Nino Kvrivishvili studied Soviet-era textiles and worked in the museum’s attic in 2016. During the residency process, she researched…
In 2017 State Silk Museum celebrated its 130th anniversary. In scopes of these celebrations we got in contact with the world silk museums we were able to find online. 9…