22.11.2024 – 31.05.2026
In the newly opened exhibition room of the Folklore Museum, exhibitions with objects from the museum’s collection are organized at loose intervals. The majority of the objects date from before 1900 and were collected against the backdrop of rapid industrialization along the lines of the folkloristic canon of the time: furniture, household items, textiles, ‘folk art’ objects and objects associated with customs and rituals were typically included in the collection. The first collection cabinet is dedicated to a special category of textile objects: cross-stitch objects. The museum’s database lists over 300 inventory numbers with this craft technique, which involves counting and counting out, including samplers, ribbons, garments, pincushions and many other cross-stitched textiles or decorated objects. The curatorial concept follows the materiality of the objects: What do their textures, colours and shapes tell us about? Why did patterns and/or colours change? Why were cross-stitch objects collected, and what were they intended to convey?
Thread by numbers – cross-stitch from yesterday to today
22.11.2024 – 31.05.2026
Volkskundemuseum am Paulustor
www.museum-joanneum.at
