Meeting

For over forty years, Hillary Steel has nurtured her interest in ikat, an important global textile tradition. Since 2007, she has traveled to Mexico to research and learn the jaspe (ikat) tradition in Tenancingo. Preserving knowledge and honoring the practitioners of this historic rebozo-making tradition has been a central passion of her work. In this

Susan Gomersall will share her experiences and the knowledge that she gained from travelling throughout Central and South Asia from the 1970s until the early 2000s. She developed a love of kilim carpets by buying, selling, touching and, in some cases, smelling thousands of them in small villages throughout the region. In the course of

We’re pleased to invite members to attend the First Annual YADA Show, an exciting new fair highlighting the next generation of antiques dealers, held in the historic George F. Baker Mansion on the Upper East Side. We will be organizing a small group (approximately 10 members) to attend the VIP Preview on Thursday, January 22

Jacqueline Simcox will speak about the recent Prestel publication: Textiles of China and Central Asia, co-authored with Mariachiara Gasparini, Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Art History at the University of Oregon; Eiren Shea, Associate Professor of Art History at Grinnell College, and Amy Heller, Tibetologist at the University of Bern. The collection is privately