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Wednesday March 10th 2010
ACOR 2011 in San Francisco postponed
ACOR Boston 2006 - Wendell Swan: Mystery Rug
“For many months the ACOR Board of Directors has been working diligently to try to bring about an ACOR 9 conference in San Francisco in February 2011″ says ACOR President Tom Hubbard to Jozan Magazine. “However, the Board has not found it possible to construct a budget which would support the kind of conference that ACOR participants would find both satisfying and affordable. In addition to our educational sessions, ACOR participants have come to expect a vibrant Dealer Fair as well as exciting local exhibitions. We have determined that it is not possible to deliver a conference with these features at an affordable price at this time.”
According to Tom Hubbard the ability of ACOR to conduct future conferences will depend on the strong support of local rug societies and on the willingness of local volunteers to assist the Board in bringing a conference to their city.
The World’s Oldest Carpet Story: The Pazyryk
Every carpet tells a story. But few tell one as fascinating as the oldest intact carpet ever found.
It is the Pazyryk carpet, discovered frozen in a tomb beneath the Siberian steppe.
The carpet was woven sometime in the 5th century and recovered almost 2,500 years later when, in 1949, Russian scientists opened one of many burial mounds in the Pazyryk valley, in the Altai mountains south of Novosibirsk.
Because the tombs, where Russia borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, were dug deep into the permafrost and covered with piles of timber and stone, the carpet and the mummified bodies of the nobles it accompanied emerged in a remarkably well preserved state.
Read the whole article at tea-and-carpets.blogspot.com
Koller auction including carpets
Kolller’s auction A152 March 25th 2010 in Zurich includes 192 rugs and carpets. The catalogue is online Koller’s website.
Lot 1417 - Old Chinese rug 240x290 cm.
Lot 1481 - Antique Sultanabad 285x295 cm.
Saul Barodofsky on “Nazarlik”
Saul Barodofsky
On January 16, 2010, Saul Barodofsky gave a Rug and Textile Appreciation Morning program, at The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. on the topic: Nazarlik : Small pieces as a window into the consciousness of tribal peoples from the Silk Road.
Saul is a dealer in Charlottesville, VA, who has traveled the world, importantly all over Turkey and Central Asia, in search of interesting textiles. He has frequently conducted previous TM “rug morning” programs.
Read more at R. John Howe: Textiles and Text
Nagel auction 16 March 2010
Nagel’s auction Rugs & Carpets, Tribal Art will take place 16 March 2010 in Stuttgart. Nagel Auction holds three large art and antiques auctions each year, as well as two auctions each of modern art, design, Asian art and collector’s rugs.
Chaudor Chuval, Turkmenistan, mid 19th ct.
Nagel’s catalogue for this auction is now online.
