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 "Felts of Northern Eurasia" with Elena Tsareva,
St. Petersburg Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)

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"Japanese Pictorial Ikats from the Krauss Collection" with Jeffrey Krauss, Textile
Collector, physicist and consultant, Potomac Maryland
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"Interweaving Traditions: Chinese Minority Costume and Jewelry" with Alex Stewart , Director, education and outreach, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum and doctorial candidate. A self – drive field trip to the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum.
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"From Srinagar to Paris and Paisley: the Kashmir Shawl in its Descendents" with
David Reisbord,
 Retired Physician, Textile Collector and TMA/SC Member
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"Looking Behind the Veil … Reading Between the Lines: Embroideries from the Mediterranean Sea" with Christian Urber,   Engineer, Textile Collector and Independent Researcher, Munich Germany
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"The Luri Tribes of Iran and Their Weavings" with Patrick Weiler, Private Collector and President, Seattle Textile and Rug Society
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Caucasian Rugs” with Alan Campbell of the San Diego Rug Society  
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"Fez & Kilim: A History of Trade Between the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires"
with Peter Bichler, independent Textile Scholar, Vienna Austria
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"Textiles as Treasures: Cultures of Consumption in Central Asia and Beyond " A Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc, and UCLA Asia Institute / Program on Central Asia, a conference consisting of six lectures by nationally and internationally renowned scholars and experts, a special Show & Tell of fine Central Asian rugs and textiles from selected collections of TMA/SC members, and a wine and cheese reception.
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TMA/SC 25th Anniversary Symposium & Luncheon with Paul Hepworth and Kate Fitz Gibbon and Special Guests of Honor Maryclaire Ramsey, Director and Bruce P. Baganz, president Board of Trustees,  The Textile Museum
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"The Textile in Fashion”, with Sharon S. Takeda and Kaye D. Spilker, Curators in the Department of  Costumes and Textiles Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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"Scoartzes: Romanian Folk Kilims" with Stefano Ionescu, Rome, Italy independent carpet scholar and engineer.
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Moth market, Pot Luck and Member Show and Tell
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"Collecting the Uncollectible: Kurdish Flatweaves of Afreen, Syria" with Yaser Al Srghrji, owner, Yana Kilims Damascus, Syria
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"Nini Towok’s Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java” and “Fowler in Focus: Courtly and Urban Batik from Java” with Roy Hamilton, The Fowler Museum UCLA
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"Weaving, Cooking, Smiling: The History and Development of Weaving in Lao Culture" with Kongthong Nanthavongdouangsy ,Master Weaver and Gallery Owner, Vientiane, Laos
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" Lebab, Weavings of the Turkmen of the Middle Amu Daryat Yurt.
Archetypical Weavings, Tribal Ethno-history and Images from the 19th Century"
 with Peter Poullada, Independent Scholar, San Francisco
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•“African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent”
with John Gillow, African and South Asian textile expert, Author and dealer, United Kingdom.
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"
Ottoman Imperial Tents"with professor Nurhan Atasoy, Research Associate, Turkish Cultural foundation
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"Pile Weavings of the Kyrgyz" with Dennis Marquand
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"The Kazakhs and Their Traditional Textiles, Ornaments and Worldview"
with Dr. Alma Kunanbaeva, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
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"Batak Textiles of Sumatra, Indonesia: Reviewing the Repertory"
with Dr. Sandra Neissen, The Netherlands
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•"Fabric of Radiance and Splendor: Many Yarns of Central Asian Ikat"
with Sumru Krody, Curator of Eastern Hemispheric Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington DC
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•"Endangered Ethnic and Tribal Textile Craft Skills in India”
with Bina Rao, Creative Bee Design Studio, Hyderabad, India
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"Five centuries of Indonesian textiles: Selections from the Mary Hunt Kahlenberg Collection"
with Sandra Sardjono, Assistant Curator of Costume and Textiles, LACMA
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"Ottoman Rugs in Transylvanian Churches"
with Alberto Boralevi, Antique Carpet Dealer and Carpet Scholar, Florence, Italy
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"Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry"
with Professor Anthony Tuck, Classics Department University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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"Turkic Influences on Mamluk Carpets and Octagonal Medallions"
with Dr. Sumiyo Okumura, Istanbul
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Small South Persian Tribal Weavings”
with Ann Nicholas and Richard Blumenthal,  Boston
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"Li Textiles of Hainan:
Seeking the Source of Austronesian Iconography"
with Thomas Murray of Asiatica Ethnographica, San Francisco

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A Day of Japanese Textiles in San Diego: A field trip from Los Angeles to San Diego including exhibitions of 
"Kimono as Art: the Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota "at the San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken Museum of Art.  Also including "Shibui-the Subtle Beauty of Japanese Art" at the Mingei International Museum. Including lectures by Dale Carolyn Gluckman  on "Kimonos as Art:  The Landscapes of Kubota," Hollis Goodall on "Kimono as Landscape/Landscape as Kimono " and Terry Satsuki Milhaupt on "Idealizing a Textile Tradition: Itchiku Kubota's Kimono Designs"

• “
Nomads
in Anatolia: Their Life and Their Textiles--Encounters with a Vanishing Culture”. With Dr. Harold Bohmer, Istanbul
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"The Shining Cloth:  Materials and Meanings"
with Victoria Z. Rivers, Professor of Design, University of California, Davis 
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"Colonial Andean Tapestries: Tradition and Transformation in the Inca Heartland" with Elena Phipps
Senior Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Embroidered Textiles of the Sindh Desert (South Pakistan)”  with John Gillow, UK

• “Architectural Textiles: Tent Bands of Central Asia”  with Richard Isaacson, Washington, D.C.

• “Armenian Rugs, Kazak Rugs, Bordjalu Rugs: Who Wove Them?”
 with Barry O’Connell, Williamsport, PA

• “
Yarns from the Aegean Islands: Embroidery from the Greek Islands and Epirus Region”  with Sumru Krody, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

• “Green Rugs: The New Environmentally-Friendly Rugs of the Qashq’ai”
with Khosrow Sobhe, TMA/SC

• “
Ottoman Influences on Islamic Batik from Indonesia”  with Thomas Murray, Asiatica-Ethnographica

• “Oriental Rug Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries” 
with
Dr.Ahmet Birbilir,
Ankara

• “
Drugs, Thugs and Rugs”
 with Louise Shelley, Washington, D.C.

• “
The Perfect Red: The Story of Cochineal”  
with Amy Greenfield, Boston

• “
Textile Adventures in South India”
with Cheri Hunter, TMA/SC

• “
The Splendor of Burmese Textiles”  with Sylvia Lu, Bethesda

• “
Kurdish Weavings”
with Michael Wendorf, Ann Arbor

• “
Appraising Your Textiles and Rugs”
With Val Arbab, TMA/SC

• “
The Chintamani Motif in Ottoman Textiles and Carpets”  
with Sumiyo Okumura, Istanbul

• “Trappings of the Middle Amu-Darya/Ersari-Beshir”
 
with Erik Risman, Indianapolis

• “
Mantles of Merit: Chin Tribal Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong”
with David and Barbara Fraser, Philadelphia

• “A Noah’s Ark: Birds and Animals in Textiles and Rugs”  with Ed Gomperts and Tom Rutherford, TMA/SC

• “
Great Textiles and Carpets in the Textile Museum”  
with Daniel Walker, Director, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

  
 





 

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