‘Announcements’ Archives
Textile Society of America
Archive photo TSA Symposium 2012: Enthusiastic questions followed the papers presented at the panel Central Asian Textiles. The Textile Society of America has just made a 'call for papers' for their symposium next year. The online submission proces for proposals is just opened and will run through 1 October 2013. The 14th Biennial Symposium will take place 10-14 September 2014 on the campus [...]
Textile Treasures from the Armenian Orthodox Churches of Istanbul
The Textile Society of America has announced the winner of the 2011 R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award to "Splendor and Pageantry: Textile Treasures from the Armenian Orthodox Churches of Istanbul" by Ronald Marchese, Marlene Breu and the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul. The award was recently presented at the TSA symposium, Textiles & Politics, held in Washington D.C., September [...]
Carpet Collector
by Tim Steinert, Carpet Collector Dear friends of Jozan, We - the editors of Carpet Collector - just finished the third issue of this new magazine for all rug collectors and connoisseurs. It is now going to the printer and will be shipped in early July. In this issue you will find exciting articles on a variety of topics. These include reports from trade fairs such as the London [...]
The Textile Museum – Myers Award 2012 to Walter B. Denny
Professor Walter B. Denny is this year's recipient of George Hewitt Myers Award. The Textile Museum will honour him at a reception at the Turkish Embassy Chancery in Washingtion 11 October 2012. He is honoured because of his dedication to Islamic visual culture and his contributions to the field of Islamic textile arts. Walter B. Denny is the author of several publications on Islamic and [...]
The Textile Museum: Celebration of Textiles
The Textile Museum will hold their 34th annual "Celebration of Textiles" 2-3 June 2012 in Washington DC. Festival hours are 10am - 4pm Saturday and 1pm - 5pm Sunday. This two days textile festival is for all ages and includes demonstrations of rug restoration, loom weaving and embroidery together with a lot of other activities f.ex. fish printing on fabrics, sheep shearing and far [...]
