This is what she wrote to me.
I am still in love with my jobit/runjat! [a Batak textile type] Just wonderful to have such excellent supporting documentation in the form of Legacy In Cloth! How you must have
poured over the old photos trying to identify the cloths being worn -
incredible! It made me realize how amazing the work that you and the
designer did on Legacy In Cloth
putting the links backwards and forward between the Style Regions [Part II] and
the Catalogue [Part III]. I love the thumbnail pictures in the Catalogue
of details in the old photos in the Style Regions! It is only when one
works through in earnest with a real textile that it is possible to appreciate
this properly. It so fits with your wish that Legacy In Cloth could be used by museums to identify their
textiles. (I know that the focus at the moment is on recording and giving
back the designs/examples of the cloths to the Batak weavers but you always had
several aims in mind. Of course, for me as a collector, I am just proving
that it also works for us!)
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