Oriental rug news
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… read more
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… read more
De Young Museum will present a lecture about Central asian carpets by Dr. Elena Tsareva during the SF Tribal Art and Textile Show. The Sixth Annual Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture: ‘Central Asian Carpet Traditions: Nomadic vs. Sedentary’, by Dr. Elena Tsareva will take place Saturday, 9 February at 1 p.m. at the de Young Museum, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco… read more
The Textile Museum’s highly popular Rug & Textile Appreciation Mornings are held twice per month on Saturdays. On Saturday 3 November 2012 at 10:30 am oriental rug dealer Mark Keshishian will display a variety of Caucasian, Persian, and Turkish rugs and invites the audience to share new acquisition or favorites in a discussion… read more
