Subject | : | Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Steve Price mailto:%20sprice@hsc.vcu.edu |
Date | : | 03-11-2001 on 09:13 p.m. |
Dear People,
My nomination for the site with the most beautiful and informative
exhibitions is Michael and Jacqueline Franses' "Textile Gallery" The images of the pieces are superb, and the texts are scholarly and thorough. I don't know of any better source of information on suzani, for instance, than the exhibition they ran on the subject a year or two back. Any collector who isn't familiar with this site should get to know it. Regards, Steve Price |
Subject | : | Re:Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Yon Bard mailto:%20doryon@rcn.com |
Date | : | 03-12-2001 on 09:42 a.m. |
I would also recommend The Weaving Arts Museum. http://www.weavingartmuseum.org./
Regards, Yon |
Subject | : | Re:Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Greg Koos mailto:%20gregkoos@gte.net |
Date | : | 03-13-2001 on 08:24 a.m. |
Dear Yon, Thanks for the link to Weaving Art Museum. I had not seen this site before. Such on-line exhibitions can provide great access to textile objects not readily accessible. This site does acomplish this. However, certain elements are lacking which makes it difficult to evaluate the contents. Specifically in the exhibit "Cult Kilim," no effort is made to provide a date or range of dates for the objects. For this reason it is difficult to analyze the observations made by the curator. I've been reading Gantzhorns,"The Christian Oriental Carpet" and wondered if his assertion on the spread of Armenian influences is supported by the observations made on the Coptic pieces found on the site. Without some kind of dating I can't make the link. The site also clearly made a choice to use a black background, which highlights the textiles, but makes reading very difficult. Yours, Greg Koos |
Subject | : | Re:Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Vincent Keers mailto:%20vkeers@worldonline.nl |
Date | : | 03-13-2001 on 09:17 p.m. |
Dear Greg,
Don't think it's possible to link pre-hellenistic-Coptic textiles with
Ganzhorns Christian? designs. Armenian?
Best regards, |
Subject | : | Re:Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Patrick Weiler mailto:%20theweilers@home.com |
Date | : | 03-18-2001 on 11:52 p.m. |
More web sites
My first introduction to the internet as a place to see rugs was on a
computer at a local museum. It was not much later that I got a computer
with web access. There have been a lot of changes since then. Turkotek has
transformed from a rug dealer web site to the Major International
Influence it is today. I would go to a search engine and type "oriental
rug" and come up with several pages of sites. Now there are dozens. Patrick Weiler |
Subject | : | Re:Best On-Line Exhibitions |
Author | : | Steve Price mailto:%20sprice@hsc.vcu.edu |
Date | : | 03-19-2001 on 08:39 a.m. |
Dear Patrick,
The two links you provided are both to attractive commercial sites with antique rugs for sale and good images of those rugs. I don't think either one would qualify as an on-line exhibition, though. Regards, Steve Price |