Hyperallergic

A Rare Persian Textile Offers a Surprising Insight Into Paradise

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 ...
The New York Times

KELEKIAN'S ORIENTALIA.; Marvels of Old Persia's Looms -- Bronzes, Church Textiles, and Antique Keramics Coming to the Hammer.

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Architectural Digest

Apparatus Turns to Pierre Frey to Translate a Persian Marquetry Technique to Textiles

One of Gabriel Hendifar's earliest design memories was of the floor cushions at his grandmother's house, which were made out of the remnants of Persian rugs. Jump forward a few decades, and Hendifar, ...
The Washington Post

At the Smithsonian, a showcase of Persian art and textiles that steal the spotlight from carpets

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...
insider.si.edu

Persian textiles and their technique from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries : including a system for general textile classification / by Nancy Andrews Reath and Eleanor B ...

"A grant from the American council of learned societies has assisted the publication of this volume." siris_sil_184210 ...