GWU museum celebrates century of preserving ‘the most precious objects people owned’

For 100 years, a D.C. museum has offered views of some of the rarest and most beautiful handmade kimonos, intricate Persian rugs and vivid robes of Taoist priests.

The Textile Museum at George Washington University is celebrating its century long mission to educate visitors about, historically, some of the most valuable materials humans have created. GWU museum celebrates century of preserving some of ‘the most precious objects people owned’

“We should keep in mind that before the Industrial Revolution, textiles were some of the most precious, if not the most precious objects that people owned,” said Lee Talbot, a senior curator at the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum. “A great deal of time, effort, expense, went into the creation of textiles.”

The museum has