{"id":69142,"date":"2025-01-27T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/stories-woven-in-cloth-in-pakistans-first-textile-museum"},"modified":"2025-01-27T19:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:30:32","slug":"stories-woven-in-cloth-in-pakistans-first-textile-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69142","title":{"rendered":"Stories woven in cloth in Pakistan\u2019s first textile museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads <\/p>\n<p>As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.<\/p>\n<p>After asking the mother of a sick boy routine questions about his family history, the woman looked outraged. Marching Askari outside, she took off her colourful shawl and laid it on her lap. \u201cMost of the answers to your pointless questions are here,\u201d she said, pointing to intricate embroidery that symbolised everything, from the woman\u2019s community, to her marriage status and her number of children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/27\/stories-woven-in-cloth-in-pakistans-first-textile-museum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.After asking the mother of a si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,71,89,60,61,3239,3240,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-museums","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-textile-art","category-va","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69143,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69142\/revisions\/69143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}