Updated June 6, 2008
June Newsletter
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June Newsletter 2008
Next Meeting
Annual Gathering
AT JIM DIXON’S
CARPET PALACE AND GARDENS
Occidental , CA
Sunday June 22, 200
Open House and Picnic Begin at 12:00 noon
Show and Tell From the Dixon Collection 2:00-4:00 pm
Jim Dixon continues his welcome support of SFBARS by inviting all members, their guests and our friends from the Armenian Rug Society to his Sonoma hilltop home and carpet palace on what we hope will be a fine weekend of good weather and flowers. Please join us June 22 and admire the lovely house, the carpets and the gardens. (Note one point of etiquette: We don’t wear street shoes in the house, but socks and slippers are fine.)
In order to reduce the demands on Jim’s hospitality we are organizing the event this year as a potluck luncheon. Paper and plastic picnic supplies and basic beverages will be provided, and we’ll set up a container for recycling. Members are requested to bring savory or sweet foods: quiches, dips, Middle Eastern foods, finger foods, pasta salads, savory breads, cheese, fruit, pies, cakes and other sweets.
To coordinate the food we ask that you RSVP by calling Nancy Sheppard (415-315-8285), leaving your name and number and what you would like to bring, or sending her an email at nancy.a.sheppard@jpmorgan.com by Tuesday June 18th. Nancy will confirm to members by phone or email, once she has RSVPs and suggested dishes to make sure we don’t all bring the same thing! It helps if earlier arrivals bring main courses and savories, while later arrivals bring desserts.
Program. Jim will be digging into his always tempting storerooms to show us some fascinating treasures. We will try to start promptly at 2 pm.
This will be our last event for the 2007-2008 Season but we will start up next fall with two events in September.
Koret Auditorium, approximate times: 10 am-4 pm.
September 22 or 23. “The Weavings of the Tribal Nomads of Anatolia.” Speaker: Harald Bohmer. Location and details to follow. Dr. Bohmer’s latest book, Nomads in Anatolia. Encounters with a Vanishing Culture, with contributions by Josephine Powell and Dr. Serife Atlihan, newly published in English, may be obtained from Samy Rabinovic, 110 S. Front Street, Unit 500, Philadelphia, PA 19106, NomadsofAnatolia@aol.com. Price for rug society members is $140 plus $14 for shipping and handling.
A Note from the President
This completes my seventh year as your President, and while there has been quite a lot of turnover of Board Members I am proud that we have been able to organize for you such an active year of carpet events.
I would like to thank Elizabeth Shedd for her sterling work on the Newsletter, taking over from the loyal efforts of Bob Dunn. Jacqueline Van Lang bravely has stepped into the breach left by the departure of Marcia Roberts to carry on the membership effort. Finally Jon Eldan has graciously taken over the role of Secretary of the Society from Sandra Whitman. I hope he realizes we are looking forward to having a Board meeting at his offices to benefit from the great views from the Ferry Building in San Francisco!! I would also like to thank Hilary Dumas for her continuing service in keeping our website current and up and running, sometimes not an easy task.
I am happy to say that we have all benefited from our increasing cooperation and joint activities with the fun-loving and enthusiastic members of the Armenian Rug Society. We had another terrific joint event on May 14th at Simonian Gallery in San Mateo, attended by over 50 people with tasty catering from the chefs at La Mediterranee (San Francisco and Berkeley – SFBARS member Lavon Der Bedrossian, proprietor) and from members of the Armenian Rug Society. The show and tell on tribal weavings of the Zagros Mountains went on for over an hour, and some fabulous pieces were displayed. We hope that this joint event can become a spring tradition among Bay Area carpet aficionados.
Last but not least we will be needing to find a new Treasurer in the next year due to the imminent departure of our long-serving Pat Leiser, and at some point in the not too distant future I would like to hand over the President’s role to someone energetic and ambitious. I always need help with program organizing, taking care of speakers and other related tasks, so if a member would like to assist, please contact me.
Have a great summer and see you in the fall.
S. Peter Poullada
A further note . . . I recently received the following message about Charles Lave whom many of you know.
It is with great sadness that we inform you and your rug society members of the death of Charles Lave, who passed away on May 2. The cause of death was complications arising from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a progressive bone marrow stem cell disorder. According to his wife Bethany Mendenhall, he experienced a gradual decline in health following his diagnosis early last fall, and he passed away peacefully last Friday at his Irvine, California, home. As you know, Charles was both a respected textile collector and one of ACOR¢s most influential organizers, having spearheaded, along with Bethany, the management of the dealer fairs for many past rug conferences. He was a towering presence among his rug world peers, and his knowledge, energy, and memorable personality will long be missed. Bethany reports that a memorial service is being planned, probably to take place in the early fall. Meanwhile, she can be reached via mail at Post Office Box 6094, Irvine, CA 92616, by phone at 949-856-0485, and by email at bmendenhall@cox.net.
Past meetings
Seccade, Part Two:
Anatolian Prayer Kilims
April 23, 2008
Reception Begins at 6:30 pm Presentation and Show and Tell: 7:15 – 9:00 pm Peter Pap Gallery 470 Jackson Street, San Francisco Telephone: 415-956-3300
As a follow-up to our well-received presentation on Anatolian prayer carpets, SFBARS will look at the variety of “seccade” prayer kilims from Anatolia. Our host Peter Pap and I will present some examples, lead the discussion, and encourage our members to show some pieces from their collections.
Unlike most prayer carpets, which tended to be reserved for use in mosques, kilim seccade were often made for personal use in the home or were portable. While most of the pile seccade were made in well known weaving workshops associated with the major towns of Anatolia, the prayer kilims were made almost anywhere. For this reason there is much greater stylistic variation in kilim seccade, and therefore they are much harder to attribute to a specific geographic location. Nevertheless, dealers and a variety of books on kilims have provided us with many precise labels. I suggest that these enable us to divide prayer kilims into several subdivisions.
One group is prayer kilims from Western Anatolia. Interestingly, the locations we usually associate with pile prayer rugs, like Melas, Ushak, Bergama and Kula, etc., are not commonly associated with kilim seccade. Instead we hear about Afyon, Dazkiri, Eskishehir, Mihalicik, Aydin, and Sivrihisar, towns somewhat further into the interior of Anatolia and away from the major coastal commercial areas. In addition there are the “Yoruk” weavings from the nomadic Turkmen tribes around Balikesir and Denizli, which are normally labeled as “Yuncu” or “Aydinli.” We will show off a classic Sivrihisar stepped prayer kilim, which exemplifies the weavings of this west Anatolian group, and may represent the seven layers of heaven.
Another group of flat woven seccade is considered to be from central Anatolia, especially from the towns and Sufi shrine centers that ring the central Konya plateau: Corum, Elmadag, Cankiri, Kayseri, Mut, and Cumra. Of this group the most recognizable weavings are the well known kilim seccades from Obruk, with their totemic antlers and snake motifs.
Southern and southwestern weavings are influenced by Arab or Kurdish aesthetics, as distinct from the more northerly seccade from the headwaters of the Tigris, Euphrates and Aras rivers. The northern kilims use more floral motifs and a softer palette. Most recognizable prayer kilims from this region are labeled Erzerum or Kars, but should more accurately be called Bayburt, Kagizman, Zara, and Gumushane. Interestingly, there seem to be no seccades from the Kurdish tribes around Van.
Other weaving centers were Sivas and Malatya. We will examine closely a group of seccade kilims from a region south of Kayseri, known as Yahyali. This summer pastureland for nomadic tribes was the ‘yurt’ of the Afshar tribes in the 14th-15th centuries, and the weavers of Yahyali are well-known in the 20th century for their pile carpets woven with a distinctive purple hue. Their kilims are less well-known but also quite distinctive. We will bring along a good map of Turkey to help us identify the weaving centers, as well as some books that illustrate other examples of seccade kilims.
SHOW AND TELL: We encourage SFBARS members to show off their own seccade kilims or other Anatolian weavings, whether you know their origin or not. Bring in your favorite piece and let us all enjoy it. Peter Pap may find some examples from his inventory and certainly will contribute his discerning eye to help us appreciate the weaving magic of Anatolian kilims.
S. Peter Poullada
REMINDER ON MEMBERSHIP
We still have not received dues renewals from about 40 members. We will be sending out final reminders shortly. If you are not sure if you have renewed or not, please contact our Membership Director, Jacqueline Van Lang, at the email address provided below. We will continue to send out newsletters and announcement to everyone for the next two events, but starting in September we will only be sending newsletters to members who have paid their dues.
UPCOMING EVENTS SFBARS
Event
May 14. “A Zagros Mountain Showdown.” Simonian Gallery, San Mateo. Our theme will be weavings of the tribes of southwestern Iran. Show and tell plus a viewing of the movie People of the Wind about the Bakhtiari migrations. This is jointly hosted by The Armenian Rug Society. Details to follow later this month.
SFBARS Event
June 22. Annual picnic at Jim Dixon’s carpet palace in Occidental, California. Once again this will be a pot-luck. Please contact Nancy Sheppard, 415 315 8285 or nashesf@sbcglobal.net, to volunteer a dish
(appetizer, main course, dessert, etc.).
Members: If you know of upcoming lectures, exhibitions, etc. of potential interest to the SFBARS membership, please send the information to elizabeth.shedd@att.net.
I enthusiastically urge those who haven't yet been to the Turkmen show at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, to do so.
First and formost it's a wonderful selection of the classic rugs made by various Turkmen tribes (Salor, Yomud, Chodor, Arabatchi,Tekke, middle Amu Darya (aka Beshire). These rugs are primarily from the important Wiedersperg, McCoy Jones and Hecksher collections.
Superb examples of the various types are on display, including a main carpet and bridal trapping from the Salor tribe, a velvety striped storage bag from the Amu Darya area, and several small door cover/prayer rugs from Tekke, Yomud, Arabatchi and Besire.
There is also an occasional eyeopening surprise. Four rugs stand out in this regard--a "c gul" Yomud with bold, beautiful spacing, carbon dated 1642-1682, a Yomud bridal camel trapping with a large cloud band covering its field, an eclectic rug with various guls and a trefoil border, knot opened to the left, that is hard to place--all from the Hecksher collection.
A playful and colorful "Beshire" from the Eiland collection also stands out with it's myriad spinning and floral forms in yellows, light blues and greens all on a brilliant red field.
We hope more such exceptional exhibits will be forthcoming! Thanks to all who made the show possible!
HD
From Mughal Court to Turkmen Tradition The Mughal Floral Style and Its Manifestation in Turkmen Weavings
Speaker: Jurg Rageth, Past President, Basel Rug Society
We are pleased to have Jurg Rageth, one of the cutting-edge researchers in Central Asian carpets, return to the Bay Area to give us his ideas on the origins of Turkmen carpets. This is particularly appropriate given the deYoung Museum’s current exhibit which I hope everyone has had a chance to see at least once. That exhibit shows off several “Middle Amu Darya” weavings (once the so-called “Ersari”) that incorporate floral and other Persianate designs, the most famous of which is the Mina Khani pattern. There is no doubt that the classical Persian garden carpets had an influence on the weavers of the Middle Amu Darya.
Jurg summarizes his talk as follows:
The origin of Turkmen carpet design is a delicate subject. The rich variety of designs in the Turkmen tradition has often been noted. It has been suggested that some patterns reach back to Bronze Age Namazga III pottery from Karatepe in Northeast Khurasan. In addition to indigenous patterns, diverse foreign influences have occurred over a long period of time. One of the patterns that will be discussed is probably a much later addition to the canon of Turkmen carpet design.
We will cast light on a design element adapted relatively late from the Persian tradition. A single tent band (ak yup) and a small group of five early Turkmen carpets ( khali) will be considered. All examples contain an unusual flower design which, because of its rounded shapes and naturalistic forms, is somehow “out of place" in the repertoire of geometrical Turkmen carpet patterns. This talk will not only describe similarities of this Turkmen flower pattern to the mid 17th century Mughal flower style, but also suggest a contemporary date of production for two of the pieces. The impact of the 17th century Mughal flower style on later 18th and 19th century Yomut and Ersari weavings was probably much stronger than has usually been attributed.
About the Speaker: Jurg Rageth is an independent oriental carpet and textile researcher based in Richen, Switzerland. He has been involved with radiocarbon dating and dye analysis since 1995 and has published several articles on these subjects. This talk represents part of his recent work for a forthcoming publication on Turkmen carpets of Central Asia. As head of the Basel Rug Society he was the organizer of numerous carpet and textile symposia, which have been published under his imprint.
February through March. Oasis Imagery: Carpets from Gansu and East Turkestan at the gallery of SFBARS Board member Sandra Whitman. The exhibition will consist of some 30-40 pieces dating from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries. The exhibit will be set up so that Ningxia and Gansu carpets can be compared, and examples of Kashgar, Khotan, Aksu and Yarkand carpets will allow visitors easily to see the structural differences. There will be examples of RKO carpets from the various regions which will highlight structural, composition and stylistic and esthetic differences in the weaving groups. The exhibit will encompass large and small format avian carpets in medallion, pomegranate tree of life, coffered and uncoffered gul designs from Khotan along with a fabulous fake for education purposes. 361 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415-861-4477).
February 26, 2008, 7:00 pm. Gallery talk on “Oasis Imagery: Carpets from Gansu and East Turkestan.” Whitman Gallery, 361 Oak Street, San Francisco.
February 28, 2007, 10:30 am. Walk-through of exhibition, Oasis Imagery. Whitman Gallery, 361 Oak Street, San Francisco.
SFBARS Event March 5, 2008, Presentation by Jurg Rageth. Details above.
March 14, 2008, 6:30 pm. Good–Better--Best, Koret Auditorium of the DeYoung Museum. A panel on Turkmen carpet connoisseurship moderated by Seattle collector Fred Ingham. Panelists include S. Peter Poullada and Carol Bier. A lively discussion from three different points of view (collector, curator, and dealer) on what makes a carpet great versus merely good. Co-sponsored by SFBARS. For further information call Textile Department or Diane Mott at 415-750-7609.
March 22, 2008, 10:00 am. Design and Pattern in the Textile Arts of Central Asia. Speaker: Carol Bier, former curator at the Textile Museum in Washington DC. Textile Arts Council, Koret Auditorium, DeYoung Museum. For further information contact TAC website at tac@famsf.org or phone 415-750-3627.
SFBARS Event April 23 (Wednesday), 6:30 – 9:00 pm. Anatolian Prayer Kilims: Yahyali
Prayer Kilims from the Collection of Peter Poullada. Peter Pap Gallery, Jackson Street, San Francisco. A display and discussion followed by a show and tell of diverse Anatolian Prayer Kilims from the collections of Peter Pap and SFBARS Members. This is a follow up to the very successful discussion and show and tell in 2006 at Pap's Gallery on Anatolian prayer carpets.
SFBARS Event Mid May, (exact date to be determined): A Zagros Mountain Showdown, highlighting weavings from the tribes of the Zagros mountains of Iran, at Simonian Oriental Rugs in San Mateo. We will also try to show the 1970's movie People of the Wind about the Bakhtiyari tribal migration.
Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet. An exhibit and symposium celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the New York Hajji Baba Club. Opens April 11, 2008 at the NY Historical Society. For information on the exhibit and the lectures contact www.hajji75.org. Reservations are required for the gala reception and the symposium.
For long term planners, the date of the ACOR 9 conference has been set for Thursday, April 30, through Sunday, May 3, 2009, at the Millennium Hotel in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Watch their website www.acor-rugs.org for updates as plans develop.
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Members: If you know of upcoming lectures, exhibitions, etc. of potential interest to the SFBARS membership, please send the information to elizabeth.shedd at att.net.
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February 2008
Past FEBRUARY RUG EVENTS
February 6th, 2008, 6:30 pm. Inaugural lecture for the Caroline and McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture Series, “Revisiting the Turkmen: What Have We Learned Since 1980?” Speaker: Dr. Jon Thompson. Co-sponsored by SFBARS. Koret Auditorium, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco. Admission for all attendees: $15.
February 5 and 6, 2008. Special programs on Central Asian carpets at the DeYoung Museum. Dr. John Thompson will present two one-day programs on pieces from the museum’s collections. The first day will focus on Turkmen carpets not in the current exhibition. The second day will be devoted to non-Turkmen Central Asian rugs. This will be a great chance to learn about Central Asian weavings from one of the world’s leading experts. The fee is $250 per day; you may sign up for one day or both. For information and reservations (each day limited to 20 people), call the Textile Department at the de Young Museum, 415-750-7610.
February 8–10, 2008. Tribal and Textile Arts Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Opening night gala, Thursday, February 7th., benefits departments of textiles and arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the de Young Museum. All day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, exhibition by tribal and textile art dealers from around the world.
February 21, 2008, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Opening reception for “Oasis Imagery: Carpets from Gansu and East Turkestan.” Whitman Gallery (of SFBARS Board member, Sandra Whitman), 361 Oak Street, San Francisco, 415-437-2402.
(The gallery is located on Oak Street between Laguna and Octavia Streets. While there is no public parking lot nearby, there is usually on-street parking after six pm along Gough, Laguna and Hayes. Please be sure to knock loudly on the door if you come late, as guests will have moved upstairs to the lecture room.)
February 22-23, 2008. Humanities West Conference, “The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan.” SFBARS will be one of the sponsors and members will receive a discount on tickets. Visiting speakers include Stefano Carboni, Curator of Islamic Art of the Metropolitan Museum, Prof. Morris Rossabi of Columbia University, Prof. Daniel Waugh, University of Washington. The conference will open the evening of February 22nd and then go all day on February 23rd. Contact patti@humanitieswest.org. As a pre-conference event, SFBARS member Prof. John Masson Smith will give a talk on Mongolian textiles.
February 24, 2008. And Another Companion Program: Sunday, 1 PM to 3 PM, "New Research on Early Inner Asian Nomads," with Daniel C. Waugh. A Silk Road House Presentation, Silk Road House, 1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705. Sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation. Phone: (510) 981-0700. E-mail: silkroadhouse-at-yahoo.com.
Mid-April. Anatolian prayer kilims, a discussion and show and tell at Peter Pap’s gallery on Jackson Street in San Francisco. Exact date and time to determined.
Members may contact Peter Poullada
: Peter Poullada
TREFOIL--1990 show at Mills College. (web page in process)
The Armenian Rugs Society maintains a database of inscribed Armenian rugs. see: A rmenian rug society
"We would always appreciate hearing about your inscribed Armenian rug and invite you to add it to our growing database Please contact us us at info@armenianrugssociety.com "
PETER LYMAN (1940-2007)
The Bay Area rug community has lost a special person. Peter Lyman passed away on July 2, after a battle with cancer. He was 66. Peter was a past president of SFBARS and an editor of the newsletter. He was an active and knowledgeable collector of antique oriental rugs and other art objects, mainly from the Himalayas and China. Those of us who knew Peter can testify to his extraordinary passion for art and his wide-ranging interests and tastes in both antique and contemporary works.
Well traveled and read, Peter knew the art and artifacts of many traditional cultures, especially in the area of rugs and other textiles. Peter was known as somebody who always extended himself to others with warmth, concern, thoughtfulness, and kindheartedness. He was particularly supportive of dealers and other collectors, always offering helpful advice and an encouraging word.
Peter felt strongly about furthering a public presence and appreciation for art. Among other art-related activities, he donated important pieces to museums, and he worked with the Art History Information Project at the Getty Trust. Peter was also a board member of the Textile Arts Council. In addition to his talents as a collector of Asian art, Peter was a gifted and dedicated teacher. Known for his exceptional mentoring skills, he developed an almost legendary reputation among his students.
Peter taught for many years at Michigan State, followed by a highly successful stay at the University of Southern California, where he revolutionized the university library for the new digital age. He moved to Berkeley after being appointed to the position of University of California Librarian. Most recently, he served as Professor in The School of Information at UC Berkeley, becoming known for his research on online information and social networks on the Internet. Peter was an inveterate art lover, a talented and accomplished person, and a caring and giving human being. His presence, vision, and generosity will be sorely missed.
A memorial service for Peter will he beheld between 5 and 7 pm on Tuesday, September 11, in the Morrison Room in Doe Library at the UC Berkeley campus. Those wanting to honor his memory are invited to contribute to the newly established Peter Lyman raduate Fellowship in New Media. Checks should be addressed to the UC Berkeley Foundation and sent to the UC Center for New Media, 390 Wurster Hall, # 1066, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600.
Robert Dunn
Dues paying membership has been falling steadily for several years now and we are down from around 200 Members to around 130 at present. This will begin to effect how many events we can put on in a given year and we would like to reach out better to the Bay Area Community. As I said in the last Newsletter, we need to find dedicated members willing to take active roles. I need help in identifying speakers, finding venues and organizing events.
We need more people involved in Membership, soon we will need a new Treasurer when Pat Leiser our long serving and suffering Treasurer finally steps down. And at some point we will need a new President !! SFBARS celebrated its 25th year in the past year and my goal is to create an organization that is dynamic and self-sustaining that will go on to celebrate another 25 years.. PLEASE, get involved, join the Board, and help out.
Contact me ( 415-602-0709 ) or by email ( sppoullada@sbcglobal.net) or, if you would like, get in touch with any of the current Board Members:
Pat Leiser, Sandra Whitman, Jim Dixon, Bob Dunn, Marcia Roberts, or Rene Rausin
Your participation will be much appreciated.
Peter Poullada
President.
A few photos from the June 10th meeting at
Jim Dixon's
For some interesting photos of ICOC Istanbul see
http://krauss.ws/travel/t/indext.ht m
and
(discussion forums/traveler's reports)
and, of course,
Josephine Powell, A great friend of the Oriental Carpet has recently died.
H.D.
It is also with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of a friend, colleague and (past) member of SFBARS, Nancy Norris-London. Nancy died this past July in the care of her loving family. She, as many of you know, was passionate about both carpets and textiles and was deeply connected to both communities. To honor her, the Nancy Norris-London Memorial Fund has been established by the Textile Arts Council of San Francisco. Donations will be used to purchase an item (or items) that will be given to the Textile Department of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums (de Young and Legion of Honor). Contributions should be sent to the Textile Arts Council, de Young Museum, 500 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, with Nancy Norris-London's name in the memo portion of the check. All contributions are tax deductible.
Kathy Judkins
On the Subject of Memorials I wanted to pay a belated tribute to Roger Cavanna, a delightful, generous spirit and loyal supporter of the Society, who passed away last year.
I knew Roger for over twenty years and found him to be one of those real originals, with a passion and love for both carpets and for Persia that was always inspiring. We are proud that his family are keeping the tradition alive in the Bay Area and welcome them as Members.
PP
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Steven Cohen's article "Indian or Persian?" in Hali [1], , regarding the three recently discovered 17th century classic carpets in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum (AAM) once again brings up the decades old controversy about just where the “Indo-Persian” rugs were made. Rug specialists continue to argue over the Persian versus Indian origin of these rugs--an argument which has led to a bewildering array of designations: Herat, Esfahan, Indo-Persian, Indo-Isfahan, Indo-Portuguese, Lahore, Agra, Mughal, etc.
Mughal Rugs: A Controversy Revisited continued: full
article
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A hitherto unknown type of "Holbein" variant rug appears in a painting dated 1504 that covers one of the two shutters of the cathedral's organ in The Cathedral Saint Jean Baptiste, Perpignon, France. The paintings are nearly 40 feet high...
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"Indo/Persians" Appendix: 100 Years of Opinions:
1900-2004
Ersari
Mosaics: by Pat Leiser
Curious fragment
Curious fragment revisited
Armenian exhibition
Potpourri icoc exhibition
Discovery of Mughal rugs
Afghan War Rugs
Syrian rugs
Rug forgery: by Diane Mott
Rugs in Paintings (bibliography): by
Pamela Bensoussan ASA
Elena Tsareva spoke to us: by John Sommers
Book Reviews: (click on link)
Review of The Nomadic Peoples of Iran by Peter Poullada
More photos: (click on link)
Heavenly Gardens
Occidental
SFBARS Potpourri show ICOC
sfbars president: Peter Poullada
For website information please contact Hillary Dumas
(flying carpet circa 1974)
:Hillary
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