Egypt
- Taking The Day Off To Move Furniture
I'll be back again tomorrow but, unless something truly unmissable breaks later today, I'm moving furniture and its contents from one room to another so that a large carpet cane be taken up today and a new one put down to replace it tomorrow morning....
- Walters Shows How Jewelry Themes Invented Centuries Ago Have Transcended The Ages
Trading Markets When Bedazzled, the exhibit of jewelry from the Walters Art Museum collection, opens today, it will be more than just an interesting look at gorgeous pieces from 5,000 years ago to the early 20th century. You'll also see the antecedents...
- Exhibition: Coptic Fabrics On Display In Florida, U.s.
Creative Loafing (Megan Voeller) Unlike any other gallery or museum in the area, Ybor's Brad Cooper Gallery takes a foray into the fiber arts of the ancient world with an exhibit of Coptic textiles curated by Egyptologist Dr. Robert Bianchi. The...
- New Textile Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service The first Egyptian textile museum will open early next year in Old Cairo. The museum, which cost some LE20 million, will display rare carpets, mates and clothes dating back to different epochs. "It will display...
- Forgotten Empire
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/776/cu2.htmA comprehensive overview of Forgotten Empire, an exhibition currently at the British Museum in London (UK) focusing on the Ancient Persian Empire. There is mention in the article of Persia's role in ancient...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian craft still alive
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1445632006
Three page article re modern carpet making in Egypt: "Near the ruins of Memphis, this country's ancient capitol, and the necropolis where the first man-made stone building still stands, an ancient art is being preserved by 21st century Egyptians. Boys and girls as young as age 10 are learning carpet maker's skills at some 200 carpet schools around Egypt. With confounding speed, they tie threads of silk and wool into millions of knots in intricate patterns that become coveted Persian rugs, known now as Oriental carpets. . . . In a country with about a 40 percent illiteracy rate, the one hour a day, six days a week in which students are taught reading and writing can help determine what they do after mastering their trade. Carpet making is said to have begun in Persia (Iran), Egypt, India and China and date back to the Bronze Age (c. 3500-2000 BC). Modern carpet schools, run by families, keep the art alive."
- Taking The Day Off To Move Furniture
I'll be back again tomorrow but, unless something truly unmissable breaks later today, I'm moving furniture and its contents from one room to another so that a large carpet cane be taken up today and a new one put down to replace it tomorrow morning....
- Walters Shows How Jewelry Themes Invented Centuries Ago Have Transcended The Ages
Trading Markets When Bedazzled, the exhibit of jewelry from the Walters Art Museum collection, opens today, it will be more than just an interesting look at gorgeous pieces from 5,000 years ago to the early 20th century. You'll also see the antecedents...
- Exhibition: Coptic Fabrics On Display In Florida, U.s.
Creative Loafing (Megan Voeller) Unlike any other gallery or museum in the area, Ybor's Brad Cooper Gallery takes a foray into the fiber arts of the ancient world with an exhibit of Coptic textiles curated by Egyptologist Dr. Robert Bianchi. The...
- New Textile Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service The first Egyptian textile museum will open early next year in Old Cairo. The museum, which cost some LE20 million, will display rare carpets, mates and clothes dating back to different epochs. "It will display...
- Forgotten Empire
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/776/cu2.htmA comprehensive overview of Forgotten Empire, an exhibition currently at the British Museum in London (UK) focusing on the Ancient Persian Empire. There is mention in the article of Persia's role in ancient...