From their home in Santa Monica, California, thousands of miles away from the region, the Reisbords have amassed a significant group of examples dating from the 19th to early 20th centuries that includes robes, accessories, and wall hangings representative of the great scope and breadth of this specific medium and the diverse groups that make them.
His interest in collecting textiles was sparked during a trip to Guatemala in the 1960s, when Dr. Reisbord observed the distinctive dress of local people, which identified them as members of a particular village. With this new appreciation, wearable and wall-hanging textiles became the focus of his vast collecting, which now spans textiles from Southeast Asia, India, Central Asia, and Syria. Within each area of collecting, Dr. Reisbord dedicated himself to finding high-quality textiles that echoed the cultures from which they came and which represented a breadth of aesthetics within each category...
The extraordinary eye and devotion of the Reisbords’ collecting is best illustrated by the fact that in 2019, two major museums in their home town of Los Angeles debuted exhibitions curated solely around their collection.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in private collections of the USA and Canada" (volume XXXI) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
The main sponsor of the project is the oilfield services company Eriell-Group.
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