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Textiles from India were the currency of trade in South Asia from the 13th century or earlier through the 19th century. An astonishing variety of fabrics were made specifically for diverse audiences in the East (traded to the archipelago of Indonesia, Thailand, to Japan and to Sri Lanka). Early textiles traded to the East were […]

Coffee House Club A.E. “Tad” Runge is the owner of A.E. Runge Jr. Oriental Carpets located in Yarmouth, Maine and the author of, One Woman, One Weft, a scholarly text on Hamadan village rugs. Tad’s presentation to the Hajji Baba Club will be an explanation and description of the unique women’s weavings from the villages

Imported Kashmir shawls were essential fashion accessories for stylish women in nineteenth-century Europe. Kashmir-style shawls came to be produced in Europe as local manufacturers capitalized on demand. While French and British shawls are well known, perhaps the most unique and luxurious shawls were produced in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The

The Coffee House Club The Lampung District in Sumatra is home to the most celebrated textile tradition of the Indonesian Archipelago. This is an area known at its core for ancient Austronesian megaliths, Bronze Age decorative influences, and the great cultural impulse of the Buddhist/Hindu state of Srivijaya. A millennium ago, there also washed upon

The twelfth- and early thirteenth-century textiles from the Chungul Kurgan in Southern Ukraine constitute a remarkable body of material, rare survivals of secular dress from the Byzantine sphere of influence on the eve of the Mongol conquests in the western steppe. They are spectacular fragments, but their degraded condition is testimony to the dangers posed

Mr. Ionescu is an independent scholar of Oriental carpets, he has dedicated almost twenty years to the study of Anatolian rugs, starting with those that survived in Transylvania. This region continues to be the repository of the richest and best-preserved group of small Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world. With nearly four hundred examples attributable to

November 10-12, 2017 Field Trip to Toronto, Canada Saturday, November 11 Aga Khan Museum 9:45 am Assemble at the entrance to the Aga Khan Museum (taxi is best means of transport) 10:00 am Permanent Collection Galleries View the recently installed galleries of the superb collection of Islamic art largely assembled by the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

The Coffee House Club Silk textiles probably have never been so numerous as they are today in Ethiopia. Each church has nearly ubiquitous textile hangings distinguishing the altar space from that of the laity. Luxury silks are still imported from the same locales such as Greece, India and Egypt, as in the medieval period. Francisco