Wooden Statuary, Bali (detail)
THE TWO OF US
Travel Itinerary
- November 23 – December 24THE HOLIDAY MARKET AT UNION SQUARE The Union Square Market a seasonal public market located outdoors in Union Square Park, NYC
TREASURE MAP
- The map to treasure is decorated with dozens of directions. There are the ways forward and the ways back, the places we pass through, the places we only pass by, the places we remember, the places we forget. The treasure, too, is manifold. There's destination, there's detour, there's what we bring and what we leave behind, there's what we lose along the way, there's what we find. And finally, there is what we carry back with us to that part of the map we call home. Sir Richard F. Burton wrote: "A traveler's legs are like blossoming branches, and he himself grows and gathers the fruit." Here then are some of those fruits, those Treasures from Elsewhere, gathered on this constantly evolving journey.
Pilgrim's Feather
- They all knew Cap'n Barnacle Bellweather, who spluttered and spat and cursed and laughed as he chased his mates all through the tavern, overturning tables and glasses as he went. Left alone there in the doorway, gazing around the room, Nicolas could scarcely believe his eyes. Men with pictures on their skin! Men with one eye and one arm, and with rings through their ears and their noses! Women with their torn skirts hitched up over their scarred thighs, and thick black cigars clenched between their stained teeth! And the maps! Every available surface was littered with them, maps of every conceivable inch of the unknown; maps to treasure, the boy would subsequently learn. But even now they seemed to have yielded up their fruits of search quite literally, piled high as they were with all the illicit cargo that found its way into the tavern via the deep pockets and quick hands and tempers of the pirates who drank at its tables and often slept in its dark corners. Everywhere there were piles of spice and remnants of silk, heaps of ivory and ebony and mother of pearl, and mountains of exotic tropical fruits unheard of to anyone who hadn't spent a lifetime crossing and re-crossing the open seas...sweet hairy rambutans and lychees, pawpaws and pine nuts and mangosteens, figs and dates from the desert, kelps and hiziki from the sea, and from the mountains a sour apple with the dry scaly skin of a snake. Despite his involvement in his own games, Captain Bellweather had not forgotten the boy. "Ladies an' pirates," he announced, smashing a glass against a tabletop to get their attention, "might I be introducin' to you this misfortunate pilgrim of your yer own youth truly, now come ta tell us of 'is woes o' searchin', come to add 'is own page to the book o' the quest." (R. Nemo Hill)
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Into The Wild
- In my wanderings this year I have taken more chances and had more wild adventures then ever before. And what magnificent country I have seen -- wild, tremendous wasteland stretches, lost mesas, blue mountains rearing upward from the vermilion sands of the desert, canyons five feet wide at the bottom and hundreds of feet deep, cloudbursts roaring down unnamed canyons, and hundreds of houses of the cliff dwellers, abandoned a thousand years ago. (Christopher Johnson McCandless)
what train?
- My mother was on a train one day when I came to visit her in the nursing home. When I gave her the ice cream cone I'd brought her, she abruptly warned me that the train was about to start up at any time. "What train?" I asked, caught off guard. "The one I'm on," she declared, with her usual inability to suffer fools... "Where are you going on that train?" I asked, intrigued by the travel imagery that so often marked her dreams. I knew that I should feel sorry for her, lamenting the sad loneliness of an old woman's mind in a deserted nursing home. But frankly I felt more fascination than sadness. There was nothing pathetic about this woman before me. She was riding the rails that afternoon, "on the road," as footloose as Jack Kerouac. Tooling through the high desert toward Santa Fe in an open box car, her hair in the wind, sucking up the miles - I didn't feel an ounce of pity for her. "I don't know," she answered my question with half a smile. "They don't tell you much here." (Beldon C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes)
the right path
- "I believe," he said, "that now I am on the right path. I regard myself at all times simply as a traveler who gives up much so as to enjoy much..." (Goethe, Elective Affinities)
DELTA
100% Cotton "Cobweb" Shawls, Thailand
LAO LION
Cotton/Silk Brocade, Laos (detail)
COLOR FALLING
"Grand Stripe" Raw Silk Shawls, Laos
CHRYSALIS
100% Raw Silk Brocade (with silkworm cocoon tassels), Laos
WISE ONES
Bronze Owls & Wooden Buddhas, Bali
FINGERPRINT
"Fingerprint", Freehand Batik Silk Shawl, Thailand (available January 2010)
RIVER
"River" Freehand Batik Silk Shawl, Thailand (available January 2010)
OVERFLOWING
Kwan Yin, Goddess of Compassion, Wood, Bali
PLANETS
Hand Painted Silk & Cotton Shawl, Thailand
TREASURE TRAIL
Just back from Asia, laden with treasures. Stay tuned...
THE FORTUNES OF MIDNIGHT
L4 - Ikat Lightning, 'Shanghai', 100% Raw Silk Shawl, Thailand
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
Ship of Life, Bronze, Burma
Trees bend down when laden with fruit;
rain clouds filled with water
hang low almost to the ground;
wealth does not make the good haughty:
this is the true nature
of those who do good to others.
Kalidasa (trans, Chandra Rajan)
The Loom Of Time: Abhijnanasakuntalam
WAVES OF TIME
FPL-1, 'Fingerprint', Free Hand Batik Silk Shawl, Thailand
THE NATURE OF WEALTH
Humble Man Of Gold, Gilded Wood, Bali
AS THE WORLD TURNS
Bronze Buddha Heads, Java
THE TEXTILE TENT
Howl Festival, 2009, Tompkins Square Park, New York City
ZOO
Masks from Bali
FIRE GARDEN
Batik Silk Sarong, Java (detail)
SEPIA MANDALA
Batik Silk sarong, Java (detail)
IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
Buddha, unpainted Hibiscus Wood, Bali
MIND & MATTER
Old Buddha, Wood, Bali
WINGS OF DESIRE
Leda & The Swan Ornament, Painted Wood, Bali
INFINITE MERMAID
Circular Mermaid Ornament, Painted Wood, Bali
MIND & LANDSCAPE
Buddha Ornaments, Painted Wood, Bali
WISHING STARS
Star Ornaments, Painted Wood, Bali
AT THE HEART OF ALL THINGS
Flaming Heart Ornament, Painted Wood, Bali
PROTECTOR
Carved Sandstone, Bali
SKY DIVERS
Abrupt Weaving, 100% Cotton Scarf from Timor, Indonesia
HEIROGLYPHS
Abrupt Weaving, 100% Cotton Scarf from Timor, Indonesia
AUTUMN PATHS
Abrupt Weaving, 100% Cotton Scarf from Timor, Indonesia
TOUCHING COLOR
'Braille' Raw Silk Scarves, Laos
THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS
'Minor Stripe' Raw Silk Scarves, Laos
FOLDS AND STRATA
Raw Silk Scarf, Laos (detail)
LOST AND FOUND BEYOND THOUGHT
Handcarved Buddha Ornament, Wood, Bali
FALL 2009 COLLECTION
CLICK on links below to view styles. For wholesale prices please email: exottreasures@gmail.com with store name and contact information. Merchandise is custom made, and delivery time varies from one to two months. Hurry!
(Retail prices available upon request also.)
TIGER
Astrological 'kalaga', from Mandalay in Burma (detail)
SILK SUNSET
Raw Shot Silk Scarves, Laos
STAY TUNED
To all those whom we met at the August 2009 NYIGF, welcome to EXOT, and thanks for your interest at the show. Sometime in the next week we will be posting photographs of our entire fall/winter line of textiles. Please stay tuned.....and in the meantime time check out our existing photo library, and feel free to contact us at exottreasures@gmail.com if you see something that catches your eye--as it may still be in stock. We will be going into production in Thailand and Indonesia shortly, so please let us know soon if you need anything specific for the holiday season.
It was great to meet you all, and we look forward to working with each of you on a personal basis.
Nemo & Julian
NYIGF 2009
"A traveler's legs are like blossoming branches, and he himself grows and gathers the fruit."
Come gather some of those fruits of travel on August 15-19 at the Javits Center in New York where R. Nemo Hill and Julian M. Perea of EXOT will be pitching their textile tent at:
New York International Gift Fair - Booth #5011
From scarves and shawls to sarongs and throws, from personal apparel to home décor, from silk ikat to cotton batik, from vintage ethnic to fashion-forward—come take a long look at our unique collection of fine hand-loomed fabrics from the Golden Triangle to the Archipelago of Indonesia—both custom made and one-of-a-kind.
Let’s face it: “The world is very large and full of magnificent lands which could not be visited in a thousand lifetimes.” So let EXOT do a bit of traveling for you.
GETTING READY FOR THE NEW YORK GIFT SHOW
Sign under construction by Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth
THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
Standing Buddha, Wood, Burma
NIGHT LIGHTNING
Raw Shot Silk Shawl, Ikat Lightning, Thailand (detail)
MIND
Bronze Buddha, Burma (detail)
COLLECTION
CLICK on links below to view styles. For wholesale prices and terms please email: exottreasures@gmail.com with store name and contact information. Merchandise is custom made, and delivery times vary. Hurry! (Retail prices also available upon request.)
FALL/WINTER 2009
FOR WHOLESALE and/or RETAIL CONTACT US AT
- 328 East 6th Street #13, NYC, NY 10003
OR EMAIL US AT
- exottreasures@gmail.com
Let’s face it:
- “The world is very large and full of magnificent lands which could not be visited in a thousand lifetimes.” (A. Rimbaud) So let EXOT do a bit of traveling for you.
THE MASK STORE
- CLICK HERE TO BROWSE
Then...order below in our new store, the first of many. Stay tuned for textiles, holiday ornaments, and more. Click above to browse our catalogue for detailed information and larger photos of each available item. Then order below. All shipping charges are included in the quoted price. If you see something that you wish to purchase that is not in a current store catalogue, please feel free to contact us for availability and ordering information.
