These colourful images come from Linda McIntosh’s EMKP project with the Alurung who live in the Alor Regency, Indonesia. Dyeing with indigo or morinda takes eight or more months, meaning a traditional garment can take 1.5 or 2 years to complete!

Project: emkp.org/colours-from-t…

This issue of our #newsletter features an article by Rachel Tough, who explores the #nostalgia of sign painting in Ho Chi Minh City, #Vietnam , and how a boom in retro-themed cafés and markets have encouraged interest in this #endangered practice.

Link: emkp.org/newsletter/

The next issue of the EMKP #newsletter is here!
Packed inside are updates about changes to the team, features on the work of our grantees, and new releases to EMKP digital repository!

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And don't forget to #subscribe !

Reminder! School of Advanced Study, University of London is inviting contributions for the 2025 ‘Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory’ Conference, organised jointly by EMKP, University of London, British Library, and Aarhus Universitet
Deadline: 7th June 2024
For more info & to apply: ow.ly/QoFh50RSRIM

Join us for a lecture at the British Museum where 65-years expert Kazuko Satō will present on the craft of Japanese paper textiles. Kazuko's knowledge features in Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran’s EMKP project documenting Japanese paper clothing.

Event details: ow.ly/LGyZ50RSJTl

Today’s #DocumentationInProgress is Samuel Derbyshire project on household material culture of semi-nomadic pastoralist communities in the #Turkana Basin of northern #Kenya .

The image displays Turkana #women attaching the roof to a #house .

Learn more here: ow.ly/yHTU50ROxzU

This week’s #DocumentationInProgress features Hasan Ali’s project, currently documenting the production of wool and leather products from the Awassi sheep, by the displaced Palmyrene people who currently reside in Turkey.

Project page: ow.ly/EQwb50RzySa

Call for proposals!
School of Advanced Study, University of London at University of London is inviting contributions for the ‘Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory’ Conference (2nd-4th April 2025).
Deadline: 7th June 2024
For more info & to apply: sas.ac.uk/borndigital2025

A new collection of assets is live on the repository! Bula Wayessa's project has produced audiovisual and photographic records to ensure a #heritage resource for #indigenous pottery-making practices of people from Gimbi Oromo, #Ethiopia .

Browse here: ow.ly/JR1Y50Rzp0I

Something is cooking… it’s Emilia Ferraro’s project on Ecuadorian #silversmithing ! Emilia and her team, Gabriela Pallares, Sandra Wilson, and Juan Serrano have been documenting the #construction , finishing, and #decorating of metal objects in #Ecuador .

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A big thank you to MEG for an incredible annual conference, and the opportunity for Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun (EMKP Project Curator) to present about her #research with native Chagossians in Mauritius, and their endangered #materialculture . See you next year!

Exploring the rich tradition of Coptic Palm Sunday palm fronds weaving. Our Endangered Material Knowledge Programme project documents this craft, preserving techniques and celebrating cultural heritage. 🌿 #CopticCulture #TraditionalCrafts

Today's #projectspotlight features Ana Carolina Brugnera’s project that documents women from the Oleiras do Candel Community of #Brazil who produce #ancient #ceramic pots and maintain #sustainable architectural techniques.

Learn more: ow.ly/9Fi050Rk5r4

Interested in documentary heritage preservation and cultural heritage protection? Join us for a conference marking twenty years of the Endangered Archives Programme:

📅 31 October - 1 November 2024
eap.bl.uk/conference-2024

We are gracing your feed today with lots of luscious plants for #InternationalPlantsDay ! Quite a few of our #EMKP projects involve #plants , #trees , and what #people around the world produce with them.

Projects of Catherine Scanlon, Alice Rudge, Bruna Rocha, and Lawrence Barham.

Happy Thursday! We are livening up your feed with these vibrant #textiles from Yunci Cai's project documenting the #traditional hand needle-weaving of Linangkit, by #women of Sabah, #Malaysia .

Learn more here: emkp.org/rediscovering-…

Project Spotlight! 🌟 Today’s feature is Miriem Naji’s #EMKP project that documents the textile production and uses in Souss-Massa, southern #Morocco . Displayed is the 'taska', a beating comb used in the #weaving process to tamp a row down before adding the next.

Today's #DocumentationInProgress features Tahura Navile's on the #Rohingya recipes and food practices to understand how the traditional and cultural boundaries overlap, shift, and change through the long-term marginalisation in Myanmar and within the refugee camps in #Bangladesh .

Today's Project Spotlight 🌟 features Ann Stahl’s #EMKP project (with Enoch Mensah, Sampson Attach, & Zonke Guddah) which documents the earthen and organic materials technologies of Banda, #Ghana . These images display the #harvesting and #weaving of raffia palm to form mats.