PAST PROGRAMS

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A sampling of recent TMA/SC programs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• “Oriental Rug Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries” Vedat Karadag, Istanbul

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

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

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

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

• “Kurdish Weavings” Michael Wendorf, Ann Arbor

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

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

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

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

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

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