Planned Events
of the International Hajji Baba Society
DATE: September 19, 2010
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EVENT: Lecture by Yaser Al Sighrji
SUBJECT: Syrian Rugs and Textiles
Yaser Al Saghrji is currently owner and manager of a successful retail business specializing in tribal kilims, YANA Kilims of Damascus, Syria. In addition, he leads a project to study the feasibility of establishing a weaving revival project in Afreen. A video describing the project is here. In addition, he collects weavings from Afreen and plans to publish a book. He hosted an exhibit of his personal collection of weavings from Afreen in Khan Assaad Basha in 2006, and published an article in Hali Magazine in the May/June 2006 issue on the weavings from Afreen. Previously he worked in London and San Francisco in textile-related jobs. He holds a B.A., English Literature from Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.
His talk will begin by displaying a map of northwestern Syria that points out the location of Afreen followed by a brief history of its people. Using a slideshow of recent pictures taken from the region he will introduce the weavers of Afreen and how their environment has impacted the weavings they produced through the materials, tools, dyes, techniques and symbols used. Furthermore a description of a traditional Kurdish home and how it dictated the functionality of the rugs they wove will be presented leading to the various types of kilims and carpets. He will end with a discussion of the factors that caused the weavings from Afreen to come to halt by the early 1950s.
DATE: October 31, 2010
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EVENT: Lecture by Stephano Ionesco
SUBJECT: Great Anatolian Rugs Sourced in Transylvania
Some of the most important 16th c. and 17th c. examples preserved in Transylvania (Brasov, Medias, Sibiu, and Bucarest) together with unpublished 16th cent. Ottoman rugs from the Bistritza collection (nortern Transylvania). Since 1952, the 50 rugs of the Bistritza Parish have been held in storage, ‘on loan’ to the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg and never exhibited.(HALI 160 of June 2009)
Some Other Upcoming Textile Events
Textile Society of America
12th TSA Biennial Symposium 2010
Lincoln, Nebraska
October 6 – 9, 2010
http://www.textilesociety.org/
Volkmann Treffen, Berlin, Oct 23-24, 2010. Subject: The 1910 Munich Exhibition on Masterworks of Islamic Art.
For further information, check the website http://www.volkmanntreffen.de/index_en.htm
31st Meeting of International Collectors of Turkmen Carpets. Hamburg, October 30-31.
Subjects: Ersari/Beshir carpets; History and Ethnography of the Turkmen in Northern Afghanistan. Smaller pile-weave pieces and Turkmen fragments.
Exhibitions: at the Hans Eitzenberger and Mohammad Tehrani Galleries.
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