<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Jay,</div><div><br></div><div>Sooa Im McCormick, Curator of Korean art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, recently curated a show on Korean embroidery: <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/gold-needles-embroidery-arts-korea">https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/gold-needles-embroidery-arts-korea</a> <br></div><div>She may be able to answer your questions and/or refer you to an expert in Korea.</div><div><br></div><div>I will send you her contact information in a separate email.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kindest regards,</div><div>Maya Stiller</div><div>University of Kansas<br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 1:12 PM James B. Lewis <<a href="mailto:jay.lewis@orinst.ox.ac.uk">jay.lewis@orinst.ox.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>We've turned up some textiles at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
(see photos below). We have no hard information about their
provenance, other than that they were a gift in the 1960s from
someone with a European name, and that the catalogue refers to
them as 'Korean'.</p>
<p>I throw myself on the mercy of art historians and ask if anyone
seen anything like this? Or, if someone can direct us to studies
of similar textiles?<br>
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<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Jay Lewis</p>
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