iMuseum der Kulturen BaselAltstadt Grossbasel
Tie-dye: gefaltet, genäht, gefärbt
About 250 textiles from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America show how folding, stitching and binding cloth before dyeing creates patterns, with a hands-on station.
Altro a Basilea
One costume on the catwalk last paraded at Fasnacht 2025. The Clique Déjà Vü dyed its cloth in itajime, a Japanese clamp technique, sewed 53 kimonos and wore insect-head masks to play the Japanese beetle, an invasive pest. Only in Basel would a carnival clique consult experts in Japan to dress up as a beetle.
Around the catwalk hang about 250 textiles from the museum's collection, from kimonos and West African boubous to shoes. Seven stations put the tools beside the cloth and show how fabric is bound, folded or stitched before dyeing. You can bind your own cotton tenugui at the hands-on table, and the museum dyes it and puts it on show.
The curator, Stephanie Lovász, says the craft takes time, experience and "a little mathematics", and the show sticks to that. Catwalk pieces change about every six months until January 2028. Entry is CHF 16, CHF 5 for students and ages 13 to 18, and free up to 12.
Da non perdere
The Déjà Vü Fasnacht costume
A kimono-style costume with a Larve shaped like an insect head, dyed in Japanese itajime for the clique's 2025 Japanese beetle theme.
The blue clown of 1978
A Basel clown costume from the Aigebreedler clique's Blue Jubilee Year, bound in places and dipped in blue several times using methods passed on by a former museum director.
The Yemeni face veil
A cap with metal embroidery and a sheer veil from the Sana'a region, tied with large diamonds that look like eyes and were meant to protect the wearer from harm.
The Globus T-shirt
A plangi-dyed T-shirt made on Menorca and sold in Basel at Kost and Globus in the 1960s, a style 1990s ravers picked up again.
The tenugui table
At the hands-on station you bind, fold or stitch a Japanese cotton cloth following iPad instructions, and the museum dyes it and later shows it in the exhibition.
Ideale per
- Per appassionati
- Giornate di pioggia
- Bambini piccoli
Con i bambini
Children up to 12 get in free. At the hands-on table kids can bind and fold their own cotton tenugui, which the museum dyes and later puts on show.
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Crediti fotografici
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- Tie-dye: gefaltet, genäht, gefärbtCourtesy of Museum der Kulturen Basel
- Atomkraft: Deine EntscheidungCourtesy of Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)
- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Museum der Kulturen BaselRaimond Spekking / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Naturhistorisches Museum BaselOwn work / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)James Steakley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung LudwigBasmus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kunsthalle BaselCharles-François Marie Iguel (1827[1]-1897) / Wikimedia Commons, Pubblico dominio