updated January 28, 2012:
Asian Art Museum Dragon Pillar rug
giant Pillar rug
Dragon Pillar rug currently on display at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
January newsletter::
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Tuduc workshop Presented by Stefano Ionescu 11 February 2012
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Tuduc workshop Tuduc workshop at Peter Pap Oriental Rugs
Tuduc workshop Tuduc workshop at Peter Pap Oriental Rugs via Jozan
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FEBRUARY 9, 2012
at the deYoung Museum, Koret Auditorium
MUSEUM FAKES AND FORGERIES; A Symposium
Speakers will include Stefano Ionescu from Italy talking about the famous Tuduc carpets, sponsored by SFBARS.The Symposium will be open to the Public, but there is a charge:
Tickets and information: $10 for the general public / $5 for museum members
Tickets to symposium here:
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FEBRUARY 15, 2012
(Wednesday evening). Elena Tsareva of St Petersburg will give a slide lecture on:
" The Pazyryk Carpet and other Pazyryk Textiles" at the former Simonian Gallery
in San Mateo,
This will be the Annual Joint SFBARS and Armenian Rug Society event. Details below.
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The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection
From September 10, 2011 through June 10, 2012
It's a wonderful show! Don't miss it!
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FEBRUARY 9, 2012
at the deYoung Museum, Koret Auditorium
MUSEUM FAKES AND FORGERIES; A Symposium
Speakers will include Stefano Ionescu from Italy talking about the famous Tuduc carpets, sponsored by SFBARS.The Symposium will be open to the Public.
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Workshop on Tuduc Rugs 11 February in San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society and Peter Pap Oriental Rugs has arranged a workshop on Tuduc Rugs. This workshop will take place Saturday 11 February 2012, 11.30 am at 470 Jackson Street in San Francisco.
Stefano Ionescu will talk on Tuduc forgeries in European and American collections, presenting about 80 slides on significant facts about Tuduc and his rugs. Then, during the hands on session participants will discuss Tuducs and some questionable rugs which will be compared with authentic examples. Stefano Ionecu is an independent scholar and has been studying Transylvanian rugs for more than a decade.
Locations and more information:
Workshop on Tuduc Rugs 11 February 2012, Peter Pap Oriental Rugs, 470 Jackson Street, San Francisco. (Admission is limited to 25 participants therefore RSVP to Renee Rausin )
Mini-Symposium Museum Fakes, Forgeries and the Quest for Authenticity 9 February 2012, De Young Museum, Koret Auditorium, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2012
(Wednesday evening). Elena Tsareva of St Petersburg will give a slide lecture on:
" The Pazyryk Carpet and other Pazyryk Textiles" at the former Simonian Gallery
in San Mateo,
This will be the Annual Joint SFBARS and Armenian Rug Society event. Details will be sent out in future Newsletters. PLEASE MARK THE DATE.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2012
The Museum is also considering organizing a workshop on February 10th by Stefano Ionescu focusing on identification of fake antique carpets. Further Information will be sent out by Jill D'Alessandro , Textile and Carpet Department Curator at the deYoung.
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
(Wednesday evening). Elena Tsareva of St Petersburg will give a slide lecture on:
" The Pazyryk Carpet and other Pazyryk Textiles" at the former Simonian Gallery
in San Mateo,
February 15, 2012
Pazyryk Carpets
Speaker: Dr. Elena Tsareva
The Annual Joint SFBARS-Armenian Rug
Society Presentation at
Rugs and Carpets Inc.
931 N. Amphlelet blvd. San Mateo, CA
Off Hwy. 101 South, past SF Airport exits.
Social event with light snacks and drinks
to begin 6:30PM
Lecture starts at 7:30.
For questions call Joe Bezjian at ARS on
650 343-8585 or Ben Banayan
415-230-9552.
The famous Pazyryk Carpet, now housed in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, is the first known pile weaving, found in a Siberian kurgan (tomb mound), and dated to the middle of the 4th century BC.
Many other textiles, mostly
felts, were unearthed in the same and nearby
gravesites, and, along with the Pazyryk Carpet,
show charming and sophisticated graphic
representations of both fantasy and realistic
animals.
This talk by Dr. Elena Tsareva will cover
the specific details of the Pazyryk Carpet, and the
lesser-known tapestries and felts from the nearby
PK-2 and PK-5 excavations, as well as other South
Siberian Saka tribal kurgans. The presence of
these artifacts in the region covers the period
between the 9th – 2nd century BC, and continues
on the west Central Asian territories in the form
of the Bactrian carpet weaving tradition, up to the
end of the Hellenistic period.
Dr, Tsareva’s talk
will also show comparative concurrent material,
and including a range of metalwork, stone
carvings, mosaics, pobery, murals, etc., which
suggests a broad picture of the development and
practice of the artistic imaginary of the splendid
epoch of Early Nomads of Central Asia.
There will be a show and tell after the presentation.
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Past meeting Armenian Rug Society
Armenian Rug Society
Many thanks to the gracious hosts Araxi and Joe Bezdjian!
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We will be sending out 2012 Membership Renewals in the coming weeks. Please send in your renewals, address changes etc as soon as possible. The Memberships cover the calender year. All Membership inquiries should be directed to Jacqueline Van Lang, 6 Muir Ave. Piedmont CA 94610, jvanlang@hotmail.com.
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Finally, SFBARS is still looking for Members who are interested in taking leadership roles in the organizing of events and in helping out with hosting of speakers. We welcome those who wish to join the Board and help us continue the long tradition of a flourishing Society in the Bay Area. Anyone interested in asissting or joining the Board please contact Peter Poullada at sppoullada@sbcglobal.net. Thank you and Happy 2011 Holiday Season.
Thomas Murray Arts Website Update Announcement
Thomas Murray Arts
Thomas Murray Arts
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COTIC New Gallery Space
COTIC
Carpets of the Inner Circle: New Gallery Space
For the 2011-2012 season, your SFBARS Program Committee, made up for now of Peter Poullada and Ben Banayan, have changed the usual pattern of meetings. Instead of trying to provide a lecture event each month or so, we have decided to concentrate activities around a few key events.
Using sponsorship, the Society will help bring to the Bay Area several major carpet events that will hopefully be of interest to all its Society members and to the more general public. Thus SFBARS is proud to be one of the lead sponsors of the wonderful exhibit of antique Turkish kilims currently at San Francisco’s deYoung Museum:
The exhibit opened to the public on Saturday September 10th and will run until June 2012. A number of lectures, including the Textile Arts Council’s monthly Saturday lecture on October 15t will be given by former Textile Curator Cathy Cootner (details below). SFBARS members should check the Fine Arts Museum’s web site for more information.
This important exhibit of antique Anatolian kilims has been financially supported by a number of SFBARS members as well as by the Turkish Cultural Foundation. A walk-through of the e3xhibit will be organized by SFBARS and the Textile Arts Council this fall.
In 2012, at the time of the annual Fort Mason. Tribal and Textile Arts show in early February, we will co-sponsor both a second important speaker in conjunction with the deYoung’s Jones Memorial Lecture Series and an ACOR-sponsored foreign speaker, most likely the noted Russian curator from St. Petersburg, Elena Tsareva. Details of these events will appear in future Newsletters.v For the spring, we would like to re-visit our Member Moth Market, either at the home of one of our Board Members or at Emmett and Natasha Eiland’s in Berkeley. We are also trying to schedule a speaker to come and talk to us about fake classical Turkish carpets.
In general our idea is that events that have a social as well as an educational content are more successful and attractive to our members than simply a slide lecture. Thus we will seek to sponsor exhibits and team up with local organizations and museums like the deYoung as well as the Armenian Rug Society and Silk Road House.
In this way we can bring you exhibits, lectures as well as social events. For suggestions for events of this kind, please contact Ben Banayan at benbanayan@hotmail.com.
Finally, since Peter Poullada officially retired from the position of President of the Society after ten years of service, effective July 1, 2011, the Board is seeking an appropriate replacement. Anyone interested in taking on the position or in joining the Board should please contact our Secrtary, Jon Elden, eldanj@yahoo.com.
Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, Ruth Barnes and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, eds., has received the R. L. Shep Award administered by the Textile Society of America. Jill D’Alessandro acted as the awarding committee chair. This comprehensive volume highlights Mary Hunt Kahlenberg’s personal collection of over 350 Indonesian ceremonial garments and textiles, which she has assembled over a 30-year period. Kahlenberg, a former Curator of Textiles at LACMA, has been at the forefront of the study of Indonesian textiles. For the first time important evidence for the antiquity of some of the textiles is given, including a surprising 15th-century date on some of the textiles.
Woven Structures: A Guide to Oriental Rug and Textile Analysis is back in print. Highly praised by the Murray Eilands, Marla Mallett’s book presents, for the first time, meticulously detailed descriptions of knotted pile and flatwoven structures that identify not only weaving techniques but the design characteristics they encourage. For complete information, www.marlamallett.com/book.htm.
Beduin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and Its Neighbors. SFBARS member Joy Hilden will present a slide lecture and spinning and weaving demonstration at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM on October 16, 2011. For more information, joy@beduinweaving.com.
SFBARS is pleased to announce Karina Nilsen as a new Board Member. Karina, who lives in Los Altos Hills, has been an active member of the Society for the past ten years and brings to the position a special expertise and background from her many years living and working in Iran in the 1970's. The Board welcomes her and looks forward to working with her on future programs and projects.
Donors to SFBARS
We would like to extend special thanks to the following members who have made donations to the SFBARS Speakers Fund: Levon Der Bedrossian, Sue Zagars, Grace and John Smith, Barbara Levinson, and Leila Poullada.
We have welcomed Ben Benayan to our Board, and now we continue to look for committed and energetic individuals to join the Board and take an active role in the Society. We typically meet two times a year to organize events, review finances and plan new initiatives. We have several projects in mind for next year: recruiting new members, expanding and upgrading the web-site, arranging a variety of events, including our Annual Dinner/Auction, and raising our profile in the Bay Area community.
If you are interested in joining current Board members in any of these initiatives and/or in joining the Board, please contact Jon Eldan, Secretary, at eldanj@yahoo.com.
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Photos from the annual joint meeting with the Armenian Rug Society
Armenian Rug Society
Many thanks to the gracious hosts Araxi and Joe Bezdjian!
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Photos from Tom Cole Tribal Rugs opening:
Tribal Rugs Opening photos
And thank you Tom!
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When Carol Bier spoke to us in January, she promised to provide certain references people asked about. here they are:
Doris Duke's Shangri La -
http://shangrilahawaii.org/
is the site for the house itself with an option to Tour the Property, among many other options
Here is the database of the collection that is searchable on the web -
http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/page.asp?pageId=295
Information about Doris Duke the Collector -
http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/page.asp?pageId=232
Here is where you can download a PDF of the book "Doris Duke's Shangri La" by
Sharon Littlefield with an Introduction by Carol Bier -
http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/page.asp?pageId+279
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Peter Poullada, Jim Dixon and soome friends holding a Kizil Ayaq Turkmen trapping-- this last September 2011 at Jim's rug palace. A good time was had by all.
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Jay Jones hosting the Chinese seat mat exhibition last year at the Capri Motel
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