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Although the Virtual Museum focusses on East Timorese textiles, we are willing to include useful events and links from the surrounding region because we recognise that clothes from other regions are likely to contribute to our understanding of the East Timorese pieces. In particular, we recognise that many collections and write-ups will still refer only to "Timor".

Please contact us if you know of coming events (or even of past events if they have been written up), or of other sources of information on the Web.

Events

Links

The Virtual Museum does not sell tais, nor does it gain from anyone who does sell tais. However, as images of or information about tais are hard to find on the Web, we have included links to commercial sites that we think are useful.

The East Timorese Cultural Centre is being restored. In mid-2002 their web site had little detail on textiles, but this should change.

Solidarity In The Post To East Timor is a rather off-beat but charming link that describes an initiative between the Australian Trade Union movement, Australia Post and Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad, to help re-build East Timor by purchasing the first day issue of East Timor's inaugural stamps. The stamps have been produced by Australia Post, saving the East Timor government around $100,000 in production costs. All proceeds of the sale of the stamps will go directly to East Timor. The site has a link to pictures of the four stamps, each of which includes tais patterns, plus the first day cover.

Weaving a new culture, by Karen Meehan: from dramaticonline.com, Wednesday, December 19, 2001. The article starts "As United Nations field officers in East Timor's mountainous eastern sub-district of Baguia, Patrick Freeman and Inge Steyaert became acutely aware of the speed and uncontrollability of cultural change in the fledgeling nation. It is affecting every aspect of life, including the traditional art of weaving, where the situation might be said to mirror those stridently bright stripes of colour, sitting enthusiastically, but also somewhat edgily, side by side on a tais." Interesting reading.

The East Timor Action Network/US (ETAN) has a store which sells tais. Most of their stock seems to have sold out, however the site has some smallish photos of tais.

Rho Designs, when we looked, had decent sized photos of several pieces simply attributed to "Timor" and said to have been collected in the 1980s.

The Cutural Artworks has an ever-changing page on textilesand rugs which, when we looked, had several pieces simply attributed to "Timor", and with no details except the price. The photos are, however, a decent size.

Friends of Baucau is an initiative of the communities and councils of the City of Darebin and the City of Yarra, in Victoria, Australia. It is part of the "Friendship City" program with East Timor, which involves a number of local government organisations in Australia. Not strong in tais, but has an interesting explanation of the "Friendship City" program. We are seeking details of relationships between other cities.

Friends of Suai- East Timor: cooperation and friendship between the citizens of Port Phillip and the citizens of Suai in partnership with Australian Volunteers International. Not yet strong in assistance to tais but could be expected to develop into that area.

The Textile Museum Conservation Department has four on-line pamphlets that provide useful guidance for the care and display of textiles. The Museum site does not have any East Timorese textiles on display.

Updated: 20Jun2002