The 8th American Conference on Oriental Rugs in Boston
 The Eighth American Conference on Oriental Rugs - ACOR 8 - will take
place in Boston, April 20-23, 2006, at the Park Plaza Hotel. The opening
reception will be at 5PM Thursday, April 20.
There will be 16 hands-on sessions hosted by well-known collectors, 3
plenary sessions with famous rug world personalities, 10 focus-sessions on
interesting rug-topics and Dealers' Row, the rug and textile fair offering
rare rugs and textiles from more than 60 esteemed dealers.
And - the best of New England's private antique rug collections will be
presented in 8 exhibitions. These exhibitions will include Rarities from
Central Asia, Treasures from four important collections, Transport and
storage bags from the New England Rug Society's highly interesting online
exhibition, Kurdish carpets from Eastern
Anatolia, Twelve mystery embroideries, Gems from the New England
Collections, Ancient coca bags and the Internationally known, but never
public exhibited, Rudnick Collection of antique Caucasian rugs.
Two gala food-filled receptions will be at the opening of Dealers' Row
and ACOR's Costume Contests.
The New England Rug Society is the host rug society for the conference.
Registration and more information at www.acor-rugs.org
Jozan Magazine January 10th 2006
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