Keep Me Warm One Night
Monthly Archive: December Keep
#ThrowbackThursday: Overshot Coverlets
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.
#ThrowbackThursday: A Very Hot Evening
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.
#ThrowbackThursday: Working Like Mad
![Photograph of <em>Keep Me Warm One Night</em>, the exhibition. Photograph of textiles behind a spinning wheel](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rom2008_9904_34.jpg?itok=LJen3z8O)
In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.
#ThrowbackThursday: Keep Me Warm One Night
![Photo of the east wall in <em>Keep Me Warm One Night</em> and Dorothy Burnham's description. Picture of Keep Me Warm One Night installation](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/installation-shot.jpg?itok=N5NNnjhQ)
Exactly forty-five years ago, in September, 1971, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) opened the landmark exhibition Keep me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.