Travel Opportunities

Past Trips

In Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Laos and Cambodia, TAC members have visited the homes and studios of local weavers and designers. They have been able to see how beautiful textiles are still made by hand, using materials and tools perfected over the centuries. Visits from such well-informed and enthusiastic strangers have encouraged and motivated many weavers to gain an even deeper appreciation of their heritage in the fiber arts. TAC travelers, in turn, have had once-in-a-lifetime adventures while gaining access to world cultural heritage sites such as Macchu Picchu and Angkor Wat. Our guides have been uniformly outstanding, and every trip has gone off without a hitch, and with unanticipated rewards for all of the travelers.

A Journey through Vietnam

This trip was offered in two sections:
February 19-27 in South Vietnam,
and February 27-March 2004 in North Vietnam.

The highlights included an overnight cruise on the Mekong Delta, visits to museums and weavers villages, as well as a trip to the site of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, Hanoi, Sapa, and the northern highland villages. Travelers on this trip stayed in the best available accommodations, including some of the best hotels in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

Paris

In 2004, a group went to Paris and London. Led by our own Melissa Leventon, now an independent curator, this trip took its participants to the great textile and costume collections and fashion houses of these two capitals. They visited museums, great houses and flea markets. From Paris to Lyon, for our trip’s extension to France’s second largest city, we boarded France’s version of the “bullet train”. Lyon is the center of France’s silk industry, with a long history of trade and manufacture of this luxury material.

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