Contributors

Ruth Barnes is the inaugural Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art. She received her doctorate from Oxford University and was previously textile curator at the Ashmolean Museum, where she organized exhibitions on Asian and Islamic textiles, early Indian Ocean trade, and the theme of pilgrimage. She was also curator of three new permanent-collection galleries for the Ashmolean’s reopening in 2009. Her publications include The Ikat Textiles of Lamalera and Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. One of her books, Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, coedited with Mary Kahlenberg, received the R. L. Shep Award in 2010.

Arielle Winnik is the Donna Torrance Assistant Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. She holds a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on textiles in their transregional networks and contexts, and she has published on subjects ranging from Indonesian batiks to early Islamic textiles, as well as on the history of studying and collecting cloth.