A collection of carpets by prominent St. Louisan and entrepeneur James F. Ballard (1851-1931) is the subject of the current exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum. A collection of carpets by prominent ...
Head of Mazandaran Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department Hossein Izadi announced the issuance of a license for the world’s first carpet repairing museum in Babolsar, Miras Aria ...
Held in the Pazyryk Hall of the museum, the event featured an in-depth presentation by prominent carpet researcher and educator Touraj Zhouleh, who provided detailed insights into the intricate beauty ...
Installation view, Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Houston Museum of ...
Large Fragmentary Ushak Carpet with Quatrefoil Medallion, 16th century; Ottoman period, (1281–1924); wool; 119 x 90 ¼ inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1929. Belle Époque ...
Chapter 1. The traditional Persian carpet in 1450 -- Chapter 2. The design revolution -- Chapter 3. The design source for the revolution -- Chapter 4. The core group -- Chapter 5. Commercialization -- ...
During Tehran Week, the Tehran Carpet Museum unveiled one of the country’s most remarkable historical carpets — a rare masterpiece woven in 1344 AH by talented Qajar-era schoolgirls at a girls’ school ...
Research by art historian Ilenia Pittui (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), recently published in Kervan – International ...