Dr Linda S. McIntosh is a curator of Mainland Southeast Asian textiles with a focus on weavings produced in Laos and Thailand. A Lao American, she learned how to weave from her mother at a young age, paving the way to formally study textiles in graduate school. She completed a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, USA, and a PhD from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Field research, which began in 1996, has led her to collect data not only in Thailand and Laos but also in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, some of her works include curating two exhibitions and writing their respective catalogs: “Status, Myth and the Supernatural: Ritual Tai Textiles” and “Weaving Paradise: Southeast Asian Textiles and Their Creators”. Linda also wrote Art of Southeast Asian Textiles: The Tilleke & Gibbins Collection and Thread and Fire: Textiles and Jewellery from the Isles of Indonesia and Timor.

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