The themes for the 16 sessions are Central Asia, Turkish Carpets (2 sessions), Textiles, Archaeology, Costumes, Europe & Oriental Carpets, Technical Features, Caucasian Carpets, Modern Production, Daghestan Kilims, Technical Investigations, Indian Carpets, Egyptian Carpets, Persian Carpets and Collecting & Collections. The academic sessions are supplied by 19 poster presentations.
The ICOC opening ceremony will be held Thursday April 19, 17:00-18.00 and the conference will end with a plenary session Sunday April 22, 11:50 – 12:30. All academic sessions will be held at Swissôtel Bosphorus either in the Neuchatel Room or in the Geneva Room.
| Swissôtel Bosphorus | Neuchatel Room – all sessions below | Geneva Room – all sessions below |
| Thursday, April 19 | ||
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Opening Ceremony. Prolusion by Prof. Walter B. Denny – An Introduction to the History of Istanbul Carpet Collections | |
| Friday, April 20 | Session 1: Central Asia, Chair Dennis Dodds | Session 2: Turkish Carpets Chair Walter B. Denny |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Elena Tsareva – A Group of the Middle Amu Darya Carpets and Bactrian Artistic Tradition | Suzan Bayraktaroglu – The Carpets and Rugs in Vakif Museum of Tokat |
| 09:30 – 09:55 | Juerg Rageth – From Saqdak to Salor: Gül Design Traditions of Central Asia, c.600-1900 | Sevim Arslan – Feshane Carpets |
| 10:00 – 10:55 | Erik Risman & Peter Poullada – Lebab Turkmen: The Tribal Mosaic of the Middle Amu Darya | 10:00 – 10:25 Harald Boehmer – Sarikeçili Yörüks: The Last Yörük Tribe Using Camels for Migration, Daily Life in Summer and Winter, and Their Textiles |
| 10:30 – 10:55 Kamil Güller – Tribes around Manisa City and Their Patterns | ||
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| Session 3: Textiles, Chair Hülya Tezcan | Session 4: Turkish Carpets (continued), Chair Walter B. Denny | |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Vittorio U. Vicari – East Asian Textile Motifs in Italian Fabrics between the 13th and 15th Centuries | Kenneth Hayes – The Cuneiform Floral Pattern in Turkish Seljuk Carpets and Later Kilims |
| 11:50 – 12:15 | Thomas Murray – Batik with Islamic Inscriptions | Jon Thompson – The Carpets of the Akkoyunlu Turkmen – Where are they? |
| 12:20 – 12:45 | Peter Bichler – Fez and Kilim. History of Trade between Austro – Hungarian and Ottoman Empires | Penny Oakley – Karapinar Rugs |
| 12:45 – 14:15 | Lunch break | |
| Session 5: Archaeology – Neuchatel Room Chair Elena Tsareva | Session 6: Costumes Chair Serife Atlihan | |
| 14:15 – 14:40 | Irene Good – New Evidence for the Antiquity of Pile Technique | Hülya Tezcan – Dervish and Sufi Costumes in the Topkapi Palace Collection |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Michael Hann – The Pazyryk Carpets – A Stylistic Appraisal of the Design Characteristics of the Deep – Frozen Treasure from Kurgan Number Five in the High Altai. |
Chris Martens – The Kyrgyz tush ki’iz and Kazak tush ki’iz |
| 15:15 – 15:40 | Nikita Tsarev – Ornamented Flatweaves from the Arzhan and Pazyryk Burial Mounds | Stephanie Bunn – The Kyrgyz Costumes of Klaudiya Antipina |
| 15:45 – 16:10 | Alibek Kazghaly uly Malayev – Semantics of Ornament on the Ancient Felts from the Frozen Burial Mounds of the Mountanious Altay | Çigdem Çini – Costumes of Embelishment |
| 16:10 – 16:25 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 7: Europe & Oriental Carpets Chair Peter Bichler | Session 8: Technical Features Chair Çiğdem Çini | |
| 16:25 – 16:50 | Sandra S. Sardjono – A Technical Investigation of 15th – 16th Century Velvets: Ottoman vs. Italian Attributions | Ali Rıza Tuna & Stefano Ionescu – A Structural Study of the Transylvanian Group and Implications for Attributions to Anatolian Carpet Production Centers |
| 16:55 – 17:20 | Beata Biedronska-Slota – Turkish Carpets in Polish Paintings. A Contribution to Iconography | Louise W. Mackie – Dazzling Textiles and Carpets |
| Saturday, April 21 | Session 9: Caucasian Carpets, Chair Nevin Enez | Session 10: Modern Production, Chair Harald Boehmer |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Roya Taghiyeva – On the Classification of Azerbaijani Shadda Flatweavings | Şerife Atlıhan – Motif and Design Characteristics in Nomad Clothing and Weavings |
| 09:30 – 09:55 – | Anna Durmenova – Northern Caucasus Felt-Making Traditions | Milena Vitkovic Zikic – Design of the Pirot Kilims |
| 10:00 – 10:25 – | Kateyoun Sarnesar – The Vernus Appearing with the Gayık (Boat) Technique in Shahsevans and its Usage | Elmira Gyul – Carpet Weaving in Boysun, The Masterpiece of The Oral and Intengible Heritage of Humanity |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Valida Pashayeva – Identical Designs and Ornamental Motifs in the Embroideries and Carpets of Azerbaijan | |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 11: Special Session – Daghestan Kilims, Chair Roya Taghiyeva | Session 12: Technical Investigations, Chair Louise W. Mackie | |
| 11:10 – 12:35 | Robert Chenciner, Paul Ramsey, Chuck Patterson, Magomedhkan Magomedhkanov – Dum and Davaghin Kilims from Daghestan | 11:10 – 11:35 – Anastasia Ozoline – Technical Analysis of some Fustat Carpet Fragments of the Benaki Collection and some Conclusions about their Origins |
| 11:40 – 12:05 – Margareta Nockert – The Marby Rug in Connection with Early Scandinavian Textiles | ||
| 12:10 – 12:35 – Catherine McLean, Frank Preusser and Mark Gilberg – Authenticating an Unknown Anatolian Carpet at LACMA | ||
| 12:35 – 14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 13: Indian Carpets, Chair Daniel Walker | Session 14: Egyptian Carpets, Chair Alberto Boralevi | |
| 14:15 – 14:40 | Steven Cohen – Do Not Believe Everything You Read: Early Indian, ‘Portuguese’ and Pashmina-pile Mughal Carpets, and the Importance of Original Documentation | Sumiyo Okumura – A Mamluk Carpet Fragment on the Bargello Composit Bow |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Franz Sindermann – Shaped Carpets of 17th Century India: Provenances, Datings Classification and Whereabouts | Mircea Dunca Luiza Gherghinescu – Tuduc’s Coupled-Column Prayer Rug Fragment in the National Museum of Art of Romania: Virtual Reconstruction of the Original Design. |
| 15:15 – 15:40 | Vandana Bandhari – Durries of Rajasthan | Sarah Sherrill – Five Mid-18th Century Aubusson “Mamluk” Carpets |
| Sunday, April 22 | Session 15: Persian Carpets, Chair Jon Thompson | Session 16: Collecting & Collections, Chair Thomas Farnham |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Christine Klose – Persian Spiral Vine Carpets of the 16th Century with Animals | Susan Day – New Perspectives for two Prestigous Collections within the context of the development of the Islamic Art Department of the Louvre Museum |
| 09:30 – 09:55 | Paul Hepworth – Rugs as Gardens: Gardens as Rugs | Christian Erber – From Traveling Palace to Party Tent: Ottoman Tents in Bavarian Collections |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Hadi Maktabi – After the Safavids: Khurasan Carpets of the 18th and 19th Centuries | Michael Buddeberg – The Reception of the Oriental Carpet in Europe in the Second Half of the 19th Century |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Galina Lasikova – Portrait Carpets of Kerman as a Propaganda Tool of Sultan Ahmad Shah Qajar | Irene Sabatini – Polonaise Rugs in Baroque Rome |
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Andrea Klobucar – The Oriental Carpet and Kilim Collection from the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia | |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 – 12:30 | Plenary Session: Closing Remarks and Farewell to the XIth ICOC. Dennis Dodds, Alberto Boralevi and Others | |
| Poster presentations | ||
| 1. Thomas Cole The Relationship of Baluch Weavings to the Seljuks | ||
| 2. Hossein Najafi Effects of Mordants: Silk and Dyeing with Lac Dyes | ||
| 3. Elisabeth Steiner & Doris Pinkwart Önlük Arkalık. Treasure of Turkish Textile Art from Western Anatolia | ||
| 4. Bert van der Valk Kilim Flatweave Saddlebags from the Trans-Caucasus. New Data | ||
| 5. Luciano Ghersi Reality and Politics in the Saharawi Carpets | ||
| 6. Susanna Bracci, Marcello Picollo, Franco Quercioli, Bruno Radicati To shed Light on Rugs: Dye Identification in Ancient Textiles by Using Non-Destructive Optical Techniques | ||
| 7. Mehdi H. Ashrafi Nano-Materials, The New Word for Finishing Rug Piles | ||
| 8. Gülgün Yılmaz West Anatolian Carpets in Holland: From Baroque Painting To the Industrial Revolution | ||
| 9. Meenu Srivastava Analysis of Constructional and Performance Parameters of Different Qualities of Handloom Woven Carpets of Bikaner (Rajastan) India |
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| 10. Arzu Mamadova Relation of the motifs used in the Karabag (Azerbaijan) Carpets and Kilims of the Last Period, with the Geographic Distribution and Ethnic Groups | ||
| 11. Beatrice Gabriela Joger Romanian Carpets | ||
| 12. Edward Gomperts Do oriental Rugs demonstrate indications of “Perspective” Illusion? | ||
| 13. Elvan Anmac & Bahadır Öztürk European Carpets in the Dolmabahçe Palace’s Collection | ||
| 14. Didem Özhekim Atış Technical Features of Ancient Non-Pile “Kirkitli” Weavings in Mosques of Kozak (Bergama) Villages | ||
| 15. Rachel Loewenstein A Meaningful Afshar Rug | ||
| 16. Zübeyde Cihan Özsayıner A figured Carpet in the Azerbaijan Baku State Fine Arts Museum | ||
| 17. Sharon Fenlon Turkish Prayer Rugs in West Virginia | ||
| 18. Kimberly Berman Rural Women and Weaving: Some Impacts of the Global Market on Turkish Carpets | ||
| 19. Selçuk Gürışık Traditional to Contemporary Design Interventions: The Influence of the Topkapı Palace on Anatolian Felted Textiles | ||