The Coffee House Club In 1910, at the time of the Masterpieces of Mohammedan Art Exhibition in Munich, Fredrik R. Martin was perhaps the most distinguished historian of Islamic Art in the western world, a consequence in large part of the brilliance of his A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, a work that is […]
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Guests are welcome, members are invited to bring a piece or two for show & tell We encourage everyone to stay for dinner! NOMINEES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS We have three board members who are leaving the board this year: Rebecca Lindsey, Roger Pratt and Gloria De Luca; the Club is extremely grateful to
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The Coffee House Club Rescheduled from January 19, 2017 The Qashqa’i confederacy is the largest group of nomadic pastoralists in Southwest Iran. The Qashqa’i are famous for their prolific output of pile rugs, bags and weft-faced gelims. Little attention has been paid to their warp-faced weavings that were utilitarian and were not woven for commerce.
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Brooklyn Museum This afternoon’s visit to the Brooklyn Museum will feature a broad selection of fiber arts from the Asian and Middle Eastern collections, ranging from monumental carpets to very early fragments from Coptic sites, from the Museum’s masterpiece kalamkari (Indian painted cotton) panels to lesser-known treasures from Korea, northern Japan, and China. Curators Joan
The Coffee House Club With the aid of examples, Hajji member Nicholas Wright will illuminate challenges in researching Tibetan weavings, including provenance within Tibet, dating weavings, and dyestuffs. Nicholas H. Wright is a retired medical-epidemiologist who bought his first rugs in Lahore, Pakistan in 1968. Jerry Straka and Don Wilber of the Princeton Rug Club
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Members of the Hajji Baba Club are invited on a curatorial walk through with Sheila Canby and the conservators of Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weavings This exhibition features six small Iranian carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries that have recently been conserved by the Department of Textile Conservation thanks to the proceeds
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CANCELLED The Coffee House Club 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
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Winterthur Museum Winterthur was once the family home of Henry Francis du Pont. An important collector of American antiques, du Pont also amassed an important collection of rugs and was an honorary member of the Hajji Baba Club. Important scholars, such as May Beattie, Jon Thompson, and Walter Denny have visited and studied the collection. This visit will
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Ukrainian Museum New York, NY This beautiful exhibition covers textiles of all kinds–clothing, household, and carpets–from both the Rumanian and Ukrainian sides of the Carpathian mountains. Drawn largely from the collection of Florica Zaharia, the exhibit highlights wools, weaving techniques, and similarities and differences from village to village and area to area. The exhibition is
