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The Moroccan carpet weaving culture is commonly described as a female domain, which has always been passed on from mother to daughter, from generation to generation. Production served only the family’s own needs, and commercialization did not take place until the 20th century. This picture certainly has a strong justification, but on closer examination it […]

In this talk, Sheila Fruman will present highlights from her forthcoming book Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation. These intrepid travelers combed the streets and bazaars of Central and South Asia finding, researching, collecting and selling antique Kashmir shawls, woven ikat and embroidered Uzbek textiles and robes, Anatolian kilims, Turkmen carpets and

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