June 2024
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Textiles of Sumba and Flores
Textiles and Culture of Sumba and Flores. Small group. Few tourists. Great ikat.
17 Days | 16 June - 02 July, 2026
$AUD7621. per person, ex Denpasar.
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Our Group and their Colourful Bus.
Julie Ryder, well respected indigo dyer, textile artist and weaver, invites you to discover the textile villages of “unknown” Sumba and Flores with their strong cultural practices, world class ikat and cotton weaving, incorp...
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Textiles & Arts of ‘Four Stans’ – Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, and Uzbekistan
28 August - 23 September, 2025.
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Textiles of the Nile Valley in Style with Nancy Hoskins and Christine Pearson. 05-20 November 2026.
16 Days | 05-20 November 2026
$AUD9983/$US6984 per person, departing Cairo
Our FOURTH annual journey along the Nile Valley in Egypt focuses on millennia of textile expertise, which we experience in Edwardian style . Utilising attractive accommodation, dahabiya boats developed by the British to cruise the Nile in Style, and wonderful meals, guests not only experience the diversity ...
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Textiles of Thailand & Laos with Valerie Kirk 2026
16 Days | 21 January - 05 February, 2026
$US3,640/$AU5760* per person, joining in Chiang Mai, concluding in Vientiane.
"I invite you to join with me as we travel from the cultural centre of Chiang Mai, in Northern Thailand, across the Mekong into the beautiful country of Laos, the home for many minority people who still produce and wear colourful fabrics using generations' old tech...
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Textiles, Craft, Arts and History of ‘Four Stans’.
27 Days | 28 Aug - 23 Sep, 2025. $AU9,843 joining in Almaty, end in Tashkent. Bookings coming in. Places available.
Our small group journey begins in Kazakhstan, through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, then to the Silk Road towns found in Uzbekistan. Our journey celebrates the famous textile and other crafts fostered by the crossroads of the famous Silk Road, sitting between Western China and the C...
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Textiles of Japan 2026 with Valerie Kirk
14 Days | May 2026 bookings open. $AUD8771 approx pp, joining and concluding in Osaka.
Learning about silk production and weaving preparation
Apart from textiles, Japan has profound skills in many other crafts and we will witness some of these from sword making, ceramics to cooking. We also see glorious scenery, magnificent ancient buildings – temples, palaces, shrines and more. Ou...
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Elephants of Katha
Throughout Asia elephants were both sacred and workers. Sacred ones live as sculptural edifices in temples, while worker ones toil in forests. In Myanmar, as in all Asian elephant countries, the latter are discarded when forestry ceases or modern machines are employed.
Throughout, elephant camps and sanctuaries have been created to rescue abandoned elephants and to provide as close as possible a ...
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Textile tours around the world – 2025-26
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Textiles of Japan with Valerie Kirk.
30 May - 12 June, 2026. Approx dates.
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