Mexican Textiles in the Collections of the Royal Ontario Museum: A Survey

The ROM has one of the largest collections of Mexican textiles in the world, that has not been seriously studied or displayed. Sayer surveyed the  collection, with the aim of providing contextual and technical information about the individual objects items in the collection, drawing on her own considerable research and fieldwork in indigenous communities in Mexico. Special attention was paid to the rebozos and serapes (variations of shawl- or wrap-like outer garments that hold a special place in Mexican clothing culture) in the collection, categories of garments which she had previously studied and published on extensively.