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Please
note: Activities will be held at The Textile Museum and
The Phillips
Collection.
Friday,
October 17
7:30-9:00
pm
Members Reception
The weekend begins with a dessert reception, open to all symposium attendees and Textile Musem members, celebrating
Timbuktu to Tibet: Rugs and Textiles of the Hajji Babas.
See the exhibition, pick up your symposium packet and enjoy
refreshments. Please note: doors open at 7:30 pm.
The Textile Museum, 2320 S Street NW, Washington, D.C.
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Saturday,
October 18
9:00
am
Coffee and Registration
The Phillips Collection
1600
21st Street NW, Washington, D.C.
9:30 am
Welcome
Daniel
Walker, Director, The Textile Museum
9:45
am
Morning Program
Form and Function: Similarities and Differences in Northwest
Persian and Caucasian Rugs
Wendel Swan, collector, ICOC Executive Committee, The Textile
Museum Board of Trustees
Tribal
Rugs as a Reflection of Social Structure and Political Economy
in Fars, 1850–1925
Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Serepta Harrison Chair in Ethics
and Justice, professor, Northwestern University
Break
Central
Asian Textiles: Reflections of Passion and Artistic Fashion
Kate Fitz Gibbon, consultant and writer on collections management
and cultural heritage issues
12:15
pm
Lunch
On
your own
2:00 pm
Afternoon Program
The
Kashmir Shawl and its Global Context
Peter
Harris, tapestry weaver and independent scholar
Ikat:
Pleasures and Problems
Mattiebelle Gittinger, Research Associate, Southeast Asian
Textiles,
The Textile Museum
Break
Silk
and Gold: Some Thoughts on the Production and Consumption
of
Luxury Textiles
Jon Thompson, former May Beattie Fellow in Carpet Studies,
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology,University of Oxford;
Recipient designee of The Textile Museum’s 2008 George
Hewitt Myers Award
4:30
pm
Concluding Remarks
Daniel Walker
5:00-7:00
pm
Reception
Continue your conversations with fellow textile enthusiasts
and symposium speakers; enjoy light refreshments
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Sunday,
October 19
9:00
am
Continental Breakfast
The
Textile Museum
9:30-10:30
am
Exhibition Tour in Galleries
Timbuktu
to Tibet: Rugs and Textiles of the Hajji Babas
Jon
Thompson
10:45
am-12:30 pm
Show-and-Tell
Bring a favorite object from your own collection
Michael M. Seidman, Trustee, The Textile Museum and member,
International Hajji Baba Society
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