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Traditional courtyard houses in in 18th and 19th century Damascus contained rooms that were specifically designed and decorated to serve as reception rooms for guests – and were therefore splendidly embellished. Significant parts of these interiors were created from elaborately painted and metal-leafed wood: wall panels, closets, decorative niches, and ceilings. The decoration of these […]

The Program will present pieces to demonstrate design process, including motif and technical production methods, plus the date and for whom a piece was made. These pieces will include an Egyptian Coptic Textile Fragment, dated about 200 B.C.E., of embroidered linen and wool. Polynesian bark cloth. Katagami stencils made from thinly pressed bark paper with

Simon Ferenc Toth will do a live presentation on photographing art with a special focus on carpets & textiles including the nature of light, colors, color temperatures, etc. Simon has offered to photograph 2 pieces for each attending member, free of charge, to provide an opportunity to see the high definition results immediately on his

For a collector, there is a continuum from basic repair of a rug or textile, through restoration of some sort, to conservation of what one has—and finally, doing nothing at all. Bob Mann gave an excellent zoom talk for the Textile Museum on the subject from a restorer’s viewpoint, and it should be viewed as

In her talk Fatima Kadić-Žutić will present an overview of her doctoral study of the traditional knotted pile sajjada and its iconography. The presentation will deal with the sajjada’s definition, functions and the history of its use, followed by a descriptive overview of the most important types of the sajjada and its weaving regions. The

6:30pm EST/New York RSVP here Around 1902, under the direction of Louis J. Cartier, the French jewelry firm of Cartier began to move away from the neo-classical mode of jewelry design, rejecting the naturalism of art nouveau, to experiment with abstraction and other contemporary and historical inspirations including Japanese textiles, Chinese jades and the arts

This presentation will introduce the Textile Research Centre 2021 exhibition surrounding the Buteh or Paisley motif’s history. This curved, drop-like shape is one of the rare forms that features on textiles from all around the world and on clothing worn by all genders or ages. The motif has many names and meanings according to the

6:00 pm EST/New York Indonesian textiles are known to convey messages across time and space by means of an archetypal iconography that include human figures, trees, boats, reptiles, birds and geometric patterns. These encoded images follow ancestral traditions and customary laws known as adat; cloth becomes sacred through a combination of fine spinning, dying, and

11:00am EST/New York To join the Zoom talk, please RSVP here. Over the past half a century, Suzani embroideries of Central Asia have captured the imagination of textile collectors and aficionados around the world. Examples from the late 18th Century up to the early 1900s are now considered as some of the most coveted of

In 1969, May Beattie, a British carpet scholar with no academic affiliation, working from her home in the provincial city of Sheffield, UK, was invited by John Paul Getty, one of the world’s richest men, to catalogue his growing collection of carpets. In the following months, the two strong personalities went head-to-head over their provenance.