Rug news and antique rugs
ICOC Academic Committee has just held a meeting 28-30 January 2011 in Stockholm. The Committee was composed by Alberto Boralevi (Chair), Anette Granlund, Margareta Nockert, Elena Tsariova, Peter Bicler, Thomas Farnham and Daniel Shaffer. “In order to improve the quality of the Conference we had decided to reduce the number of … read more
The ICOC academic program includes different areas of carpet studies f.ex. early and later nomad, village and workshop pile carpets and flat-weaves gathered by geographical origin. The deadline for proposals was 8 November 2010. “We have recieved more than 90 abstracts and have room for 45-50” says chair of The Academic Committee … read more
The Academic Committee has just announced their Call for Papers for ICOC Stockholm 2011. The deadline for proposals is 30 September 2010. The committee is composed by Alberto Boralevi (Italy – Chair of the Academic Comittee), Thomas Farnham ( USA – Chair of the Publications Committee), Margareta Nockert (Sweden), Elena Tsareva … read more
The detailed – and impressing – academic program for the International Conference on Oriental Carpets has just been released by Alberto Boralevi, Chair of the Academic Committee. The themes for the 16 sessions are Central Asia, Turkish Carpets (2 sessions), Textiles, Archaeology, Costumes, Europe & Oriental Carpets, Technical Features, Caucasian Carpets, … read more
