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Tribal ethnic textiles reflect the cultural and aesthetic signifiance of different people in the world. Materials, techniques, forms, motifs, colours identify the geography, the history, the religious beliefs, the lifestyle and cultural differences within people.

"The fabric of a people, unlock their social history. They speak a language which is silent and yet more eloquent than the written word" (Lewis Henry Morgan, XIXth century's American anthropologist studying American Indians tribes and who is considered as the modern anthropology 's father). Reading this, I immediatly thought about antique tribal textiles. My passion for antique traditional textiles and my travels' experiences in different countries made this phrase having a particular and strong signifiance for me : ethnic textiles reflect the cultural and aesthetic signifiance of different people in the world. In each area people have shaped their textile traditions, links to their own identity, using the ressources available in their local environments. Tribal ethnic textiles' materials, techniques, forms, motifs, colours identify the geography, the history, the religious beliefs, the lifestyle and cultural differences within people. Heldover the centuries, tribal textiles produced on the six continents reveal the mankind's highly rich skill, creativity and aesthetic sense. This traditional textile art of different ethnic and tribal textiles have evolded over many generations: the Silk Road trades, tribes becoming sedentary, marriages between different ethnic groups resulted in a highly rich variety of tribal ethnic textiles.