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Blanket Statements, Issue 46, Fall 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 46, Fall 1996

The Legacy Of Timur: A Small Rug At The Textile Museum, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Among the two hundred lots offered oh the block by Christie's from Bernheimer Family Collection of Rugs in February 1996, a small shaped rug with white ground was acquired by the Textile Museum. The rug was Lot 192, published in the catalogue as an East Persian saddle rug dating to the 19th century. The Textile Museum's interest in the piece was sparked by my hunch, based upon its design, that this rug is far more significant than its published attribution might suggest. A carefully conceived trefoil scroll implies a Timurid heritage. To read the design correctly, it should probably have …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 8:2 – Summer 1996, Textile Society Of America

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Bibliography: 1995
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Announcements
By-Laws of Textile Society of America, Inc. (as amended February 1996)
Symposia
Exhibitions
Board of Directors

Blanket Statements, Issue 45, Summer 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 45, Summer 1996

Blanket Statements, Issue 44, Spring 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 44, Spring 1996

Legacy Of Collector George Hewitt Myers, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

A CULTURAL JEWEL in the nation's capital, The Textile Museum is a testament to the vision and unerring eye of its founder, George Hewitt Myers. Established in 1925, this small museum has assumed a revered place in the international museum community not only for the quality of its collections and library, but also for its leadership. in the study, preservation and interpretation of the textile arts. Over the years it has been the flagship institution for the conservation and display of textiles around the world based upon the foresight of Myers. Today, The Textile Museum's exhibitions and educational initiatives distinguish …

The Meaning Of Yoruba Aso Olona Is Far From Water Tight, Lisa Aronson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

While researching the ritual meaning of cloth among the Eastern Ijo of the Niger Delta, I examined the contents of a number of family owned trunks in which were stored old and much valued cloths traded from elsewhere in Africa, Europe, and India. One type of cloth which I frequently found in these collections was one made up of three, or sometimes four, woven strips that are sewn along the salvage and decorated with supplemental weft-float design. The Eastern Ijo regard this cloth as a valuable heirloom for its trade value and for the fact that its designs evoke spiritual …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 8:1 – Winter 1996, Textile Society Of America

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1996 Symposium Taking Shape
Introducing…Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago
On the Agenda: Papers, Panels, Workshops, Meetings
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
In Memoriam: Otto Charles Thieme, Cecily Bloomfield, Shannon Rodgers
Member Info-Xchange
Textile Collections at the Field Museum, Chicago
Rinderman CAD Lab Opens at Philadelphia College of Textiles
Saint-Hyacinthe Plans Month-Long Fiber Event
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions
Board of Directors

Textiles Of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes, Patricia Rieff Anawalt

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation analyzes three long-gone prehispanic textiles, a feat made possible due to the peculiarities of the Aztec language, Nahuatl, and the sixteenth-century Spaniards' dedication to detailed recordkeeping. From Columbus' first voyage in 1492 to Spain's final expulsion from the Americas in the nineteenth century, the Spaniards were exemplary recorders. Fortunately, this trait was particularly evident in the decades following the 1519–1521 conquest of Mexico, a period that yielded invaluable conquistador eye-witness accounts, administrative records and missionary chronicles. It is to the latter genre that we owe the data presented in this paper.

Of all the newly-discovered peoples in the …

Other Pile-Weavings From Safavid Iran - The Persian Velvets At Rosenborg, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Among Persian pile-weavings, the most famous are carpets produced in Safavid Iran connected with the Persian monarchy or with European royalty. These include the Habsburg hunting Carpet today in the Osterreichisches Museum for Anfewandte Kunst, Vienna, the Swedish royal carpet, and perhaps the Boston Hunting Carpet . A hunting carpet which may also be categorized as a "medallion carpet" is that in Milan at the Poldi Pezzoli; another celebrated medallion carpet is the Ardabil carpet in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London , with a companion in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More numerous are the star medallion …

Blanket Statements, Issue 47, Winter 1996

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Blanket Statements, Issue 47, Winter 1996

Approaches To Understanding Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

ORIENTAL CARPETS reached a peak in production in the late nineteenth century, when a boom in market demand in Europe and America encouraged increased *24 production in Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus.* Areas east of the Mediterranean Sea at that time were referred to as. the Orient (in contrast to the Occident, which referred to Europe). To study the origins of these carpets and their ancestral heritage is to embark on a journey to Central Asia and the Middle East, to regions of low rainfall and many sheep, to inhospitable lands where animal husbandry and the seeking of good pastures …

Symmetry & Pattern: The Art Of Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The beauty of oriental carpets is achieved by various means including choice of colors and designs, as well as by the manipulation of designs to form pleasing patterns. Patterns in Oriental carpets are never quite what you expect — a surprise here, a flourish there, a change of color, the flip or rotation of a design where you might not predict it. The more you look, the more variations you will find.

The study of symmetry offers an approach to analyzing patterns in Oriental carpets. Through symmetry analysis we may identify areas of pattern that exhibit expected repetitions, and areas …

Blanket Statements, Issue 42, Fall 1995

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Blanket Statements, Issue 42, Fall 1995

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 7:21 – Fall 1995, Textile Society Of America

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Introducing…The Antonio Ratti Textile Center of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Neutrogena Collections Find a New Home in Santa Fe
1996 Bibliography Issue: Call for Entries
Nominations/Elections Committee
The Collections
Storage Facilities
Textile Conservation Laboratory
Ratti Center Staff
The Study Center
Public Access to the Center
Call for Papers
Announcements
Symposia/Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions

Blanket Statements, Issue 41, Summer 1995

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 41, Summer 1995

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 8:19 – Summer 1995, Textile Society Of America

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Introducing…The Textile and Costume Collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Board of Directors
Letter from the President
Info-Xchange
Regional Activities East
Acknowledgment
Letter from the Editor
New Newsletter Editor
Announcements
Symposia/Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
Classes/Lectures/Workshops
Exhibitions – Past, Present, and Future

Blanket Statements, Issue 40, Spring 1995

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Blanket Statements, Issue 40, Spring 1995

Blanket Statements, Issue 43, Winter 1995

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Blanket Statements, Issue 43, Winter 1995

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 7:18 – Winter 1995, Textile Society Of America

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Introducing…The Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Textiles Collection
Profile: Rita J. Adrosko
Board of Directors
Letter from the Editor
Info-Xchange
Boston Textile Department Restructured
Recent Acquisitions at Cleveland and Indianapolis
Announcements
Symposia/Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
Classes/Lectures/Workshops
Exhibitions – Past, Present, and Future

Blanket Statements, Issue 38, Fall 1994

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Blanket Statements, Issue 38, Fall 1994

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 6:17 – Fall 1994, Textile Society Of America

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Our New President: Mattiebelle Gittinger
Expanding TSA Membership Goals
Board of Directors
Letter from the President
Symposium Highlights
Special Interest Group Meetings in Los Angeles
Letter from the Editor
Announcements
Calls for Papers
Electronic Communication
National Museum of the American Indian
Pacific Textile Arts
The Medieval Dress and Textile Society
Complex Weavers
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
Positions Available
Study Tour to Morocco
Travel
Study Tour to Japan
Weaving Tour of Bolivia
Lectures/Symposia/Conferences/Seminars
Exhibitions- Past, Present, and Future

Blanket Statements, Issue 37, Summer 1994

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Blanket Statements, Issue 37, Summer 1994

Blanket Statements, Issue 36, Spring 1994

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 36, Spring 1994

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 6 – Spring 1994, Textile Society Of America

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TSA’s Fall Symposium
Letter from the President
1994 Nominees Approved by the Board
In Memoriam
Letter from the Editor
Lillian Elliott: A Profile
Joanne Segal Brandford: A Profile
Announcements
Calls for Papers
Memorial Fund Established
Symposia/Conferences/Seminars – Past/Present/Future
The Eastern Region’s Late Spring Tour of the Renwick Gallery’s Exhibition of Contemporary Navajo Weaving
TSA Bibliography Announced

Ornament And Islamic Art, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Review of: The Mediation of Ornament, by OLEG GRABAR & Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, by ALOIS RIEGL.

TWO MAJOR WORKS addressing the nature of art, published in the same year but written a century apart, are each based, in part, upon analyses of Islamic monuments. Both derive from series of lectures on the history of ornament, and each offers a perspective explicitly countering the author's own intellectual milieu in the study of art focused on Western tradition.

Problems of Style is an impressive translation of Stilfragen, a broadly-based and wide-ranging inquiry by Alois …

Preface - Contact, Crossover, Continuity - 1994, Louise W. Mackie, Patricia R. Anawalt

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Inc., was hosted by the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, California, September 22–24, 1994. The papers addressed a broad theme which was chosen in order to accommodate the diverse interests of members. The proceedings contains the thirty papers and two abstracts of papers presented at the symposium, plus a video script, and a list of the two hundred and forty participants.

Contact, Crossover, Continuity highlights the causes and effects of change on textiles around the world. The proceedings provides an opportunity to identify and evaluate …

Table Of Contents - Contact, Crossover, Continuity - 1994

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Table of contents from Contact, Crossover, Continuity: Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, September 22–24, 1994

What’S In A Name: The Domestication Of Factory Produced Wax Textiles In Cote D’Ivoire, Kathleen E. Bickford

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In a frequently evoked passage from Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare asks "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Yet, as Romeo and Juliet tragically come to learn, human beings make much of names. Indeed, one's name is a significant part of one's social persona; it can describe who we are, it can join us and separate us from others, and it can link us to the past. In a sense, when we are named we are given an identity. Describing the complexities of naming for the Wamakua …

Continuity Of Culture: A Reenactor’S Goal, Elizabeth Mcclure

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper examines the maintenance of cultural continuity through historical reenactment. It is the reenactor's goal, in this case, to portray and maintain the culture of Ireland and Scotland. They are holding on to this culture and presenting it to others by maintaining the dress, crafts, and lifestyles of sixteenth-century Scotland and Ireland.

The methods of data collection for this study were ethnographic in nature. Interviews with key informants were conducted. In addition, there was a questionnaire distributed to members of the group This method of data collection provided the insight to see how a member of this group achieved …