Oriental rug news and articles
On December 10-12, 2014 Azerbaijan Carpet Museum hosts a three-day event – a series of lectures on museology, carpet history and carpet-related studies from Western perspective with the focus on Azerbaijani rugs.
Montreal Oriental Rug Society has announced a lecture “Textile Palimpsests” by Jaina Mishra Saturday 25 October at 2.00 pm at Dawson College, Montreal. This talk we will explore a few such textile palimpsests – the Tampan Ship Cloth of Sumatra, the Phulkari Bagh of Punjab, the Ludhi of the Rabari tribe and a few others.
The Textiles Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present a lecture and a mini-exhibition about Bedouin garments 29 March 2014 by Lois Draper.
Koos de Jong will do a lecture tour in USA and Canada this autumn. The occasion is his new book ‘Dragon & Horse – Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond’ and an invitation from the American Conference of Oriental Rugs (ACOR).
The Textile Museum has just opened for the registration to their Fall Symposium ‘From Village and Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles’. TM’s symposium will take place Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 October 2013 and will be the last symposium taking place at the old Textile Museum’s facilities.
Walter B. Denny will hold a lecture ‘Carpets, Textiles and Islamic Art: New Museum Practice in the 21st Century’ Saturday 11 May 2013 at 10.00 am for the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California. This lecture will take place at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.