Past Meetings Archive
2016/2017
Annual Business Meeting and Old Fashioned Show & Tell
Qashqa’i Warp-Faced Weavings
Speaker: Fred Mushkat
Exploring Tibetan Weavings
Speaker: Nicholas Wright
Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weaving
Speaker: Sheila Canby
Recent Studies on the ‘Transylvanian’ Group of Anatolian rugs
Speaker: Stefano Ionescu
All day visit to Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware
Carpathian Echoes: Textile Materials and Technology in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania and Ukraine
Speaker: Florica Zaharia
Colors of the Oasis: 19th Century Central Asian Textiles and Their Modern Revival
Speaker: Bruce Baganz
Peter Pap Booth Talk
Speaker: Peter Pap
Re-envisioning Japan: Meiji Fine Art Textiles
Speaker: John Vollmer
The Evolution of a Collector: George Hewitt Myers
Speaker: Sheridan Collins
Olana: The Home of Painter Frederic Edwin Church
An Attempt To Group the Origin of Some Central Anatolian Carpets Made Between 1500-1650
Speaker: Michael Franses
Creating New Carpets Using Ancient Techniques
Speaker: Bahram Shabahang
2015/2016
Annual Club Meeting & Members’ Show & Tell
African Textiles and Dress: Highlights from the Newark Museum Collection
Speaker: Dr. Christa Clarke
James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs
Speaker: Walter Denny
Field Trip to the Newark Museum
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
Speaker: Richard Tuttle
Border Crossings: Three 19th Century Iranian Artists
Speaker: Layla Diba
The Splendor of Persian Pictorial Carpets and the Stories They Tell
Speaker: Judge Jeffrey G. Berry
Early Inscribed Textiles from the Textile Museum,
Conspicuous Display of Authority
Speaker: Sumru Krody
Rug Conservation
Speaker: Richard Newman
Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands
Speaker: Louise Mackie
Preview of Sotheby’s Auction
“Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections”
Speaker: Mary Jo Otsea
2014/2015
The Hajji Baba Club Annual Picnic
Art Deco Hooked Rugs: Modernist Folk Art
Speaker: Lawrence Kearney
Reassembling a Persian Beauty & How To Kill a Moth – Tips and Tricks To Preserve Your Treasures
Speaker: Anna Beselin
Exotic Encounters – Reading Two 18th Century Chintzes
Speaker: John Guy
Back to The Future – Reconstruction of Anatolian Carpets From Renaissance Paintings
Speaker: Ali Riza Tuna
Where Does the Baluch Camel Ground Tree of Life Design Come From?
Speaker: DeWitt Mallary
SECRETS AND LI: Layers of Mystery in Dragon Tapestries from Hainan, China
Speaker: Lee J. Chinalai
The Oriental Carpet as “Islamic Art”
Speaker: Wendel Swan
The 1933 Exhibition of “Old Spanish Rugs” in Madrid: Carpets, Collectors, and Dealers
Speaker: Heather Ecker
Uncle Henry and Lord Duveen’s Carpets
Speaker: Thomas J. Farnham
2013/2014
Myth & Design
Speaker: Thomas Cole
Textile Crafts from Western India
Speaker: Roger and Claire Pratt
Continuing Traditions
Speaker: Gail Martin
Sogdian Traders & Silk Textiles
Speaker: Carlo Christi
Ottoman Rugs & Romanian Folk Kilims
Speaker: Stefano Ionescu
Early Rugs from the Nazmiyal Collection
Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories
Speaker: Lee Talbot
City Court and Workshop Inspired Carpets
Anatolian Kilims and Their History
Speaker: Vedat Karadag
Imperial Portraits and Costume from Ancient Assyria to Qajar Iran As Ritual Performance
Speaker: Ira Spar
19th c. Village and Tribal Rugs
The Dragon Chasing the Horse – Or Was it the Other Way Around?
Speaker: Koos de Jong
Ottoman Influences on Islamic Batik from Indonesia, A Context of Understanding
Speaker: Thomas Murray
Artist-Designed Rugs by Parviz Tanavoli, Iran’s Formost Sculptor
Speaker: Parviz Tanavoli
2012/2013
The Hajji Baba Club Annual Picnic
Annual Meeting & Show and Tell
Kang Collection and Sotheby’s NYC
Ratti Center – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Off the Beaten Path
Speaker: Jeff Spurr
A Sultan’s Present – the Robe of Honor in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
Speaker: Gisela Helmecke
Celestial Geometry as a Soul Carrier to The Other World
Speaker: Eberhart Herrmann
Woven Transport and Storage Bags
Speaker: Raoul Tschebull (Mike)
The Steps of the Dragon
Speaker: Denise Cain
Carpets and the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Recent Past and Long-term Future
Speaker: Walter Denny
Carpets of Gold and Silk
Speaker: Dan Walker
Fifty Years of Collecting
Speaker: Mae Festa
Hispanic Society Field Trip
Speaker: Sally Sherrill
Qaraqalpaqs Of The Aral Delta
Speaker: David and Sue Richardson
2011/2012
Central Asian Ikat Coats in the Ashmolean Museum
Speaker: Ruth Barnes
New York’s Great Carpet Collectors – Marquand to McMullan
Speaker: Professor Thomas Farnham
Islamic Carpets and Textiles for the ALTICALSA Galleries at The MET: Conservation and Display
Speaker: Florica Zaharia
The Origin Of Piled Weaving
Speaker: Elena Tsareva
Aroma of Romance in Middle Eastern Art
Speaker: Shelia Canby
Turkmen Engsi
Speaker: Kurt Munkacsi
Rugs are All About Color! But What Does That Mean?
Speaker: Wendel Swan
Sothebys Auction Preview
Speaker: Mary Jo Otsea
Reciprocal Trefoil Border in East Turkestan and Elsewhere
Speaker: Hans Koenig
Late Mamluk Carpets: Some New Observations
Speaker: Dr. Jon Thompson
2010/2011
Baluch
Speaker: DeWitt Mallory
Mae Festa: My First Forty Years of Collecting
Speaker: Jeff Spurr
Textile Design Influences in Turkish Rugs
Speaker: Gerard Paquin
Fez & Kilims
Speaker: Peter Bichler
Cochineal
Speaker: Elena Phipps
Topkapi Textiles
Speaker: Paul Hepworth
Turkish Rugs
Speaker: Stefano Ionescu
Surprise Topic
Speaker: Michael Franses
Re-opening of the Islamic Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Speaker: Navina Haidar
2009/2010
Japanese Textiles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Speaker: Joyce Denney
Textiles as Art – Textiles as Artifacts
Speaker: Gail Martin
The Orientalists: Oriental Carpets in 19th Century European and American Paintings
Speaker: Walter Denny
The Marvelous Reality of Peru
Speaker: James Reid
The Textiles of Kyrgyzstan
Speaker: Eileen Anne Malloy
Shaped Indian Carpets of the 17th Century
Speaker: Daniel Walker
Color as a Tool to Identify Anatolian Carpets
Speaker: Samy Rabinovic
Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, Costume and Diplomacy in The Second Millennium B.C.E.
Speaker: Ira Spar
2008/2009
Anatolian Yastiks: Small Wonders
Speaker: Dennis Dodds
Oriental Rug Fakes and Copies: Teodor Tuduc
Speaker: Alberto Boralevi
Contemporary View of Old Caucasian Village Rugs
Speaker: Raoul “Mike” Tschebull
Tribal Weavings: Symbolism and Meaning through the Eyes of the Creator
Speaker: Peter Davies
Qing Imperial Robes in the Palace Museum Collection
Speaker: John Vollmer
Dragon & Lattice Carpets of the 17th & 18th Centuries
Speaker: Paul Ramsey
The Three Ballard Collections
Speaker: Walter Denny
17th Century Mughal Style and It’s European Influences
Speaker: Frank Ames