Introduction: Ena de Silva and the Aluwihare Workshops

Autor:	David G. Robson
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Parliament media_common.quotation_subject Performance art Art Sri lanka Quarter century media_common Visual arts
Zdroj:	The Journal of Modern Craft. 1:405-414
ISSN:	1749-6780 1749-6772
DOI:	10.2752/174967808x379452
Popis:	In 1962, 40-year-old Ena de Silva moved into the unique courtyard house that architect Geoffrey Bawa had built for her in Colombo and started to experiment with batik making. Assisted by Laki Senanayake and her son Anil, she established Ena de Silva Fabrics and went on to produce such masterpieces as the ceiling of Bawa's Bentota Beach Hotel and the banners that hang in front of Sri Lanka's parliament. In 1982 she returned to her ancestral home in the hills above Matale and founded a women's cooperative to make batiks and needlework along with a brass foundry and wood-carving workshop. The cooperative has now existed for more than a quarter century and continues to make modern fabrics and carvings, which are inspired by traditional Sri Lankan designs.
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