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 […]
Reconstructing Soft Furnishings in Medieval Ethiopian Rock-Cut Churches Read More »
Field Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Woven bags carried by nomads in the Middle East were designed to contain all of the necessities of life, from bedding to salt. This exhibition will highlight 19 distinctly patterned examples of woven bags from nomadic cultures in Iran, Turkey, and the Caucasus, along with one striking
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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.
Qashqa’i Warp-Faced Weavings Read More »
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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