Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA has announced its 'PROGRAMS IN JANUARY,' as follows:
Lecture
The Ottoman Fashion: The Impact of Ottoman Textiles and Costume on Europe from the 15th to the 20th Centuries MONDAY, January 9, 3:30 pm
Explore the history of Europe's fascination with the textile and costume arts of the Ottoman Empire with Walter B. Denny, professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate for Oriental Carpets at The Textile Museum.
Please note that this program is co-sponsored with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and will be held there. FREE; no reservations required.
Special Exhibition Tour
Rozome Masters of Japan SATURDAY, January 14, 1:30 pm
Take a Saturday afternoon break and enjoy a special docent-led tour of the current exhibition of contemporary Japanese textiles, Rozome Masters of Japan. FREE; no reservations required.
Lecture
Cosmological Visions:Huari Imperial Iconography SATURDAY, January 14, 2:30 pm
The Huari Empire (circa AD 750-950) was a vast, long-standing culture that linked remote regions and peoples in what now constitutes Peru.
In this lecture, Anita Cook, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America, will focus on the human representations found in Huari textiles and ceramic painting and their transformation into cosmological beings.
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