Background
She was born in Dunedin in 1930, the daughter of naturalist Lance McCaskill, and graduated from the University of Otago with a Diploma of Home Science.
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Margery Blackman
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University of Otago.
Career
She was influenced by Scandinavian handweaving and was largely interested in floor rugs. In 1963 she returned to Dunedin and from 1967 she worked at the Otago Museum. In 1976 she went to Edinburgh to study weaving under Scottish tapestry weaver Anna King.
In 1988 she was made honorary curator of ethnographic textiles and costume from other cultures and Māori material at Otago Museum.
Blackman has organised numerous textile exhibitions, largely at the Otago Museum, including "Islamic Rugs" in 1975, "Indonesian Weaving" in 1981, "Treasures from Māori Women" in 1989, and "From Emperor"s Court to Village Festival", an exhibition of Chinese textiles. In 2012, she appeared in a series of YouTube videos created by Te Papa talking about textile analysis and Māori weaving.
Her work is held in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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