educational resources
Bamboo canvas
Bamboo Canvas is an interactive platform of video links, podcasts, online lectures, or databases explaining art-making techniques of Asian art and design for educational institutions and audiences and to highlight artistic contributions and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
China AFRICA POWER
CAFP investigates how, in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global power is manifested, negotiated, and resisted in people’s daily life in a South-South setting using fashion as an exemplary case.
DOCUMENTING FASHION IN SINGAPORE (1950 - 1999)
Singapore Fashion Histories is an open-access resource documenting the written and oral histories of fashion in Singapore from 1950 to 1999 through the lens of our everyday broadsheets and national press.
Nepal picture library
Nepal Picture Library (NPL) is a digital photo archive run by photo.circle that strives to create a broad and inclusive visual archive of Nepali social and cultural history. Since its inception, NPL has collected over 120,000 photographs from various private and organizational sources across Nepal.
Oma Traditional Textile Design DatabaSe
This unique database was created with the Free Prior Informed Consent of the Oma of Nanam Village in Laos as an act of cultural preservation, and also represents an invitation for collaboration respecting the 3Cs’ Rule: Consent. Credit. Compensation. The information in this database is owned by the Oma ethnic group of Nanam Village in Laos.
The Dictionary of Filipino Dress
Created by Cornell University Professor Jaleesa Reed in collaboration with undergraduates Alyssandra Rae Ortanez (’23) and Julianna Gembs (’27), the Dictionary of Filipino Dress is a list of terms relevant to Filipino dress throughout history, with an emphasis on the Philippine terno.
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