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).