After a long month of December with candles, presents, carols and plenty of traditional food, we have passed Christmas and New Year’s Eve. In many places around the world, New Year’s Eve marks the end of one year and the beginning of a new and […]
All posts tagged: India
On Garments and Gender
When my son was 4 years old, he loved to dress in skirts. Reactions from the surroundings varied a lot: from the daycare assistant who laughed and said he was funny, to his great grandfather who exclaimed that skirts were for girls only. Not to […]
An artist in India: The longing of a missionary wife
How do you pass the time, when your husband has brought you all the way to the other side of the world? To a strange land, with different customs? In a time, when women of a certain class were not supposed to work? And when […]
Following the call: The Indian missionary collection
Imagine taking your family and travelling halfway around the world, to a place, which is strange and wholly different from everything you know. Now imagine that it is 1874 and that place is Madras in India. What do you bring from home, to remind you […]
Kaftan – India
Silk! The fabric equivalent of precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum – historically reserved for the nobler part of society. Needless to say, this garment was traditionally worn only by the aristocracy. From the beautifully picturesque “land of high passes”, Ladakh, neighbouring the Himalayas […]
Tami Shawl – India
Coping with disease and searching for recovery often make many people look outside of what is usually referred to as “western medicine” when they fall ill. The collector of this beautiful shawl, Jes Moeskjær, came across an example of this, back in the 1970’s. “When […]
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