Ever-popular speaker Walter Denny joins NERS for his third webinar. Expanding on his provocative and engaging keynote address at the recent International Conference on Oriental Carpets, Walter will look at the future of carpet studies, noting that, unlike other areas of art history, our current knowledge of more recent carpets is primarily founded on, and continues to be furthered by, information from the marketplace.

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https://tinyurl.com/WDfringe

In Anatolia, the 15th century was a turbulent era; after an invasion by Tamerlane’s forces, the Ottomans managed to regain and expand their power, conquering Constantinople and forcing resettlement of Anatolian Turkmen tribes. Deniz’s presentation examines so-called Varsak kilims from southwestern Turkey. He will maintain that these kilims can be associated with the late-15th century relocation of a group of Turkmen tribes.

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https://tinyurl.com/DenizFringeplus

A finely woven rug held in the Konya Ethnographic Museum, dated to the 17th century, is actually a uniquely conceived Rum Seljuk-era prayer rug. Hewing closely to the generally accepted notion that epigraphy – the practice of adorning artifacts with text – is a foundation of Islamic art and culture; Hayes will show that the rug’s designer used pseudo-epigraphy to inscribe the divine name. This design evokes the mystical idea of a ‘concurrence of opposites’.

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https://tinyurl.com/SeljukNERSfringefb

The Levant, the culturally diverse territory of the eastern Mediterranean, came under Ottoman rule from the 16th century through the end of World War I. A cluster of silk weaving centers emerged in the Ottoman period encompassing both cottage industries and established workshops. The talk will outline the geopolitical influences on this textile group and present a range of silk garments, accessories and textile panels from the Ottoman era Levant.

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The Levant, the culturally diverse territory of the eastern Mediterranean, came under Ottoman rule from the 16th century through the end of World War I. A cluster of silk weaving centers emerged in the Ottoman period encompassing both cottage industries and established workshops. The talk will outline the geopolitical influences on this textile group and present a range of silk garments, accessories and textile panels from the Ottoman era Levant.

Registration link:

https://tinyurl.com/5n7azwhp