Woven Words: Decoding the Silk Book

Name: Woven Words: Decoding the Silk Book
Start: 2019-02-06T10:00:00
End: 2019-02-06T10:00:00
Location: The Walters Art Museum

Apr. 27, 2019 10:00 a.m.

The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Dec. 05, 2018

midnight

Event price: Free

Woven Words: Decoding the Silk Book highlights a little-known but magnificent rare book from the Walters’ collection—a 19th-century prayer book woven entirely from silk on a Jacquard loom. Visitors will discover a surprising and fascinating connection between the creation of the Silk Book and the computers that shape our modern world. Along with the Silk Book itself, the exhibition includes a group of handwritten books that contain trade secrets of the Jacquard loom. Tablets in the gallery will display the fully digitized Silk Book and a video that demonstrates how the Jacquard loom works.