Meeting

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.

Photo courtesy of Carlo Cristi Collection In the 6th century, roundel motifs began to appear on wool and silk textiles in Chinese and Iranian territories. Through the spreading of Buddhism and Islam in the 8th century, textiles with beaded, lobed, and flowery roundels spread across Eurasia; they have been found in Christian Cathedral treasuries, Egyptian

The Art Institute of Chicago has one large and important carpet made by Morris & Co. for the Glessner House, which is located in the historic Prairie District neighborhood of the city. The Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson, who was hired by John and Frances Glessner to design a new home for their family in

This talk will offer an overview of some of the more interesting rugs and textiles Lawrence Kearney has had the good fortune of handling in his eight years at Skinner Auction Gallery.  After showing slides of some beautiful rugs, flatweaves and textiles from Anatolia, Northwest Persia, the Caucasus, Persian urban workshops, Central Asia and Western

The presentation will focus on comparing and contrasting urban Moroccan and Greek Island embroideries. While both territories were isolated and ruled by the Ottoman Empire, they also had other outside influences. Morocco took inspiration from Hispano-Moresque styles, while Greek Islands were inspired by the Balkans and Italy. Established by Yosi Barzilai in SoHo in 1989,

6:00pm EDT / New York THIS ZOOM MEETING WILL BE OPEN EXCLUSIVELY TO MEMBERS OF THE HAJJI BABA CLUB This is our Annual Meeting to vote for candidates for Board of Directors We will also have New Fashioned online “Show and Tell” that will be presented in a power point presentation. Members are encouraged to

11:00am EDT / New York RSVP: https://www.hajjibaba.org/meeting-rsvp/ Woven as a monumental pair for the Safavid dynastic shrine in northwestern Iran, the iconic Ardabil Carpets are celebrated today as masterpieces of sixteenth-century design and technique, and are located in London’s V&A Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The acquisition history of the two

Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) was the undisputed leading dealer of the Italian and European Antique Art Market between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. He was regarded as an art expert and true connoisseur and therefore nicknamed ‘The Prince of Antiquarians’. Bardini was born in Tuscany, on April 13th 1836