Lectures Archives

‘A Western Approach to Azerbaijani Carpets’ at Azerbaijan Carpet Museum in Baku

18 February 201811 December 2014

From left to right: Azerbaijan Carpet Museum’s Deputy Director Yalchin Salimov and Director Roya Tagiyeva, ICOC Academic Committee Chairman Alberto Boralevi, project manager Asli Samadova

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.

Textile Palimpsests by Jaina Mishra at Dawson College, Montreal

2 May 201522 October 2014

With a very rare motif of a Dutch Ship.From Kota Agung region in Sumatra

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.

Bedouin garments – lecture by Lois Draper at the de Young Museum

15 February 201822 March 2014

Typical Arabian Bedouin Face Mask, Western Hijaz area, 1950, Saudi Arabia. Phography: Scott Draper

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.

ACOR Lecture Tour – Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack

15 February 201811 September 2013

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).