A spin-off from the traditional non-European textiles exhibition currently in progress at Prato Textile Museum, this new exhibition focuses specifically on the Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland Manipur and Meghalaya regions of North East India from which it brings together twenty or so examples of clothing and furnishing textiles.

One of the most interesting features of the populations of these territories – regions which form a real and proper bridge between India and China – is the way in which they use materials such as cotton, wool and silk in both religious rituals and domestic life. Indeed, the weave of the textiles of these regions can be seen as a universal form of expression and is even used to decorate the external walls of the homes of the people of the area with reed panels replicating the traditional woven structure of the locally produced textiles.

The exhibition also includes a display of photographs documenting the places, the homes and the customs of the populations of these territories.
The aim of the exhibition is thus to explore the interaction between vegetable-based materials and the materials used in traditional textiles and embroidery of the local area, which, in a region of India such as this, are clearly an integral part of the architecture. 

The exhibition has been organized together with Indoroman, a Rome-based showroom of textiles from various areas of India.