These are for everyone who can not make it to the show. It is going to Connecticut next, then it is going to Florida in Feburary. It is well worth a trip.
Hali Review of NY Weavings of War
‘Weavings of War’ is not a specific reaction to any one war or political stance. Instead, it reflects the way in which individuals and different cultures experience and survive conflict per se, through the medium of folk and contemporary textile art.
Weavings of War opened tonight in New York
Amazing Structural Rug Information
Either I missed this before, or Marla Mallett has updated her site. For example her
End Finishes Project is really amazing.
warp loops
oblique interlacing
half-hitch bands.
Well done!!
Traditional and Contemporary in NYC Architecture
The combination of the traditional and the contemporary is critical to innovation in the arts. This combination juices any art: literature, painting, architecture, and of course, carpets. NYC has an excellent example of this important combination in the new Hearst Building.
Larger image from wirednewyork.com
NEW YORK architecture has suffered a lot in recent years. The brief optimism born of a public rebellion against early proposals for ground zero has long since given in to cynicism. Since then it has often seemed that fear and melancholy have swamped our creative confidence.
Norman Foster’s new Hearst Tower arrives just in time, slamming through the malaise like a hammer. Crisscrossed by a grid of bold steel cross-braces, its chiseled glass form rises with blunt force from the core of the old 1928 Hearst Building on Eighth Avenue, at 57th Street. Past and present don’t fit seamlessly together here; they collide with ferocious energy.
Link: Nicolai Ouroussoff of the NY Times
Image from cantorseinuk.com
New York City needs more of this kind of thing.
Ma’sud Kneeling Rug
Excellent War Photographs
Mount Fuji 2
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Mount Fuji Afghan Rug
Here’s a puzzler:
Mushwani, 5’1″ x 7’5″, dated 1994. No coherant translation of Farsi text, yet. The wool is super fine, very well knotted. The use of different checkerboard techniques is noteworthy, particularly how the checkerboard coloration is used to create convincing pictorial depth. $1400
Three Tower Rug
This rug is 4’10” x 7’2″, note elaborate kilim end. Note similarity to the fringe of this antique Amman Ullah Khan rug:
