Asmoro Damais
Mrs. Asmoro Damais (born in Amsterdam 20 may 1948) is the daughter of a French historian and a Javanese mother. She grew up in Jakarta in a household deeply involved with culture. In the early 1970s, she began collecting batiks from the north coast of Java and creating a range of garments and interior design products that used batik and other local fabrics for a shop that remains active today. Ms. Damais has delivered numerous presentations in different cities on the importance of textiles and its place in Indonesian culture. asmorodamais@hotmail.com
Paper (pdf): Setting up a Community Textile Museum
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