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Here is the November Newsletter, attached and below (with distorted formatting).
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San Francisco
Bay Area
Rug Society
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NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER 2010
Stefano Ionesco
Antique Ottoman Rugs
in Transylvania
Peter Pap Oriental Rugs
470 Jackson Street, San Francisco. 415-956-3300
(Nearby public parking three blocks away at Broadway and Sansome and Broadway and Battery)
Social hour begins at 6:30; talk begins at 7:15 pm
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Transylvania is the repository of the richest and best preserved corpus of small Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world. Almost four hundred examples are attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving from the 15th to the 18th century, including Holbein, Ushak, Lotto, and Selendi carpets.
Despite its impressive value, this treasure has scarcely been researched and barely brought to the attention of the public. The very presence of these carpets -- often prayer rugs – which survived in the Lutheran churches of the German minority in Transylvania (also called Saxons, who lived alongside Romanian Orthodox, Hungarian Catholic, and Reformed communities) is a very interesting, complex and unique cultural phenomenon.
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About the Speaker
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In order to explain the presence of these rugs, Stefano Ionesco has published a comprehensive study about the cultural and religious background of Transylvania. He was born on the border of Transylvania, educated in Bucharest, and has lived in Rome since 1975. He has documented the entire collection of the Black Church in Brasov, together with the most important examples from the Lutheran churches of eight towns or regions, the National Museum of History of Transylvania in Cluj, the National Museum of Art in Bucharest and other European museums. A major objective was to stimulate the preservation and restoration of these rugs and facilitate exhibition of them.
Ionesco is the author of Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania, as well as articles in Hali (Nos. 137, 144, 160) and other journals and magazines and a paper presented at the 2007 ICOC in Istanbul.
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Ethnic Textile Bazaar.
Sunday,
November 14, 2010
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Members of the Textile Arts Council of the de Young Museum will offer items from their collections for sale. Shop for ethnic jewelry, clothing and textiles and add to your own collection or find a holiday gift. In particular, a number of important rug books have been donated for sale. Authors include Boralevi, Eiland, Bruggemann & Bohmer. A partial list appears at the bottom of page 3.
Proceeds support the Fine Arts Museums’ Textile Department, its collection and the Textile Conservation Lab at the de Young. Please expect to pay by check or with cash. Free parking adjacent to the church. 10am – 4pm, Moriarty Hall, St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 1300 Funston at Judah, San Francisco. For more information: 415 750-3627, tac@famsf.org .
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Call for More New Blood! |
We have welcomed Ben Benayan to our Board, and now we continue to look for committed and energetic individuals to join the Board and take an active role in the Society. We typically meet two times a year to organize events, review finances and plan new initiatives. We have several projects in mind for next year: recruiting new members, expanding and upgrading the web-site, arranging a variety of events, including our Annual Dinner/Auction, and raising our profile in the Bay Area community.
If you are interested in joining current Board members in any of these initiatives and/or in joining the Board, please contact Jon Eldan, Secretary, at eldanj@yahoo.com.
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Thursday,
January 20, 2011
Save the Date !!!
Friday, February 11
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Update of SFBARS Calendar
Joint meeting with the Armenian Rug Society in San Mateo. Speaker will be Paul Hepworth, textile conservator from Istanbul, who will talk about either the Topkapi textile and carpet collection or about Persian garden carpets.
Central Asian specialist Andy Hale will present the Annual Caroline and McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture, in conjunction with the Tribal Arts Show at Fort Mason. The talk, which will be at the museum’s Koret Auditorium, is co-sponsored by SFBARS and the deYoung Museum. |
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Mid March 2011
Mid April 2011
End of May 2011
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Peter Bichler, head of the Austrian Carpet Society will speak on “Fez and Kilim: Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Trade in Carpets and Kilims after 1683.” Date and venue to be finalized.
The second SFBARS Moth Market and Members Bazaar. Date and venue to be finalized (probably Emmet Eiland's Gallery in Berkeley)
As a send-off for the upcoming Stockholm ICOC (June 16-19), SFBARS will have an end of the season picnic at Jim Dixon's Carpet Palace and Gardens in Occidental. Date to be finalized.
The Turkish Cultural Foundation announces the inauguration of the Natural Dye Research and Development Laboratory, one of the world’s most advanced laboratories for research on natural dyes. Known as DATU in Turkey, the laboratory has been providing natural dye technical analysis services free of charge to museums and art institutions, including Topkapi Palace, in Turkey and Azerbaijan. DATU employs micro analysis techniques upon tiny fiber samples from antique carpets and textiles so that antique textiles can be properly preserved and restored. With one of the world’s largest natural dye collections, DATU also can recreate natural dye colors used in traditional Turkish weavings. DATU’s goal is to create a scientific inventory of natural dyes and contribute to the redevelopment of the natural dye production process, as well as spreading the use of natural dyes in textile production.
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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PUBLISHER |
DATE |
PRICE |
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Carpets from Eastern Turkestan |
Hans Bidder |
Wasmuth |
1979 |
$50 |
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Carpets of Central Asia |
A.A.Bogolyubov |
Crosby Press |
1973 |
$350 |
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Chinese Carpets |
E. Gans-Ruedin |
Kodansha |
1981 |
$85 |
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Culture 7 Customs of Serbia and Montenegro |
Christopher Deliso |
Greenwood Press |
2009 |
$45 |
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Jewish Carpets |
Anton Felton |
Antique Collectors Club |
1997 |
$50 |
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Kazak Lion Rugs from Fars |
Raoul Tschebull |
New York Rug Society |
1971 |
$90 |
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Pain Art Center, Textile Museum |
1974 |
$15 |
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Oriental Geometries: Stefano Bardini & the Antique Carpet |
Alberto Boralevi |
Sillabe |
1999 |
$50 |
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Oriental Rugs from Pacific Collections |
Murray Eiland |
SFBARS (ICOC SF) |
1990 |
$100 |
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Rugs of the Peasants & Nomads of Anatolia |
W. Bruggemann & H. Bohmer |
Kunst & Antiquitaten, Munich |
1983 |
$750 |
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Ties That Bind; A Social History of the Iranian Carpet |
Leonard M. Helfgott |
Smithsonian |
1994 |
$100 |
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Trefoil: Guls, Stars & Gardens |
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Mills College Art Gallery |
1990 |
$25 |
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Turkoman Carpets (and the Ethnographic Significance of their Ornaments) |
Siawosch Azadi |
Crosby Press |
1975 |
$175 |
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Turkoman Carpets in Franconia |
Peter Hoffmeister |
Crosby Press |
1980 |
$100 |
PARTIAL LIST OF BOOKS AVAILABLE AT TAC ETHNIC BAZAAR
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SFBARS Board Members
Peter Poullada President
Jon Eldan Secretary
Renee Rausin Treasurer
Jacqueline Van Lang Membership
Elizabeth Shedd Newsletter
Hillary Dumas Webmaster
Ben Benayan
Jim Dixon
Murray Eiland, M.D. Emeritus
Pat Leiser Emerita
John Sommer, M.D. Emeritus |
Members may contact Peter Poullada at sppoullada@sbcglobal.net.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society is a nonprofit organization whose publications and events are supported by your subscriptions. Individual subscriptions are $40 annually, $60 for two people at the same address. Please send renewals, address changes, or subscriptions to Jacqueline Van Lang, SFBARS Membership, 6 Muir Ave., Piedmont, CA 94610. jvanlang@hotmail.com. For more information about SFBARS, including information about membership, an archive of past Newsletter articles, rug pictures and other features, please explore the SFBARS website at www.sfbars.org.
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