The 2nd ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium

Ms. Lesley Pullen (MA, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) is currently an independent researcher and lecturer. Lesley was born in Medan Indonesia and lived the majority of her life in Asia. She moved to London in 1997, completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS and Sotheby’s in 1998, and worked as Programme Director at Asia House until 2000. She has conducted extensive fieldwork research focusing on traditional textiles, since 2005 in Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Bhutan, Nagaland and Sarawak. She was awarded her MA in Art and Archaeology by SOAS in 2008. Lesley will be lecturing on Indonesian textiles on the BA, Postgraduate Diploma and MA programmes at SOAS in 2009. Lesley has acquired a range of textiles and jewellery pieces which she employs as a teaching collection. pullen.london@btinternet.com

Paper (pdf): Kain Bebali: Reviving and Sustaining Balinese Sacred Textiles