Ottoman-Era Silks of the Levant
Online lecture
2/1/2025 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT-London
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The Levant, the culturally diverse territory of the eastern Mediterranean, remained under Ottoman rule from the sixteenth century through the end of World War I. During this period, a cluster of silk-weaving centers, encompassing both cottage industries and established workshops, emerged there. Paula Krugmeier’s presentation will outline the geopolitical influences on the textiles produced in these centers, including silk making and weaving/assembling techniques, and will show a representative range of garments, accessories, and panels.
Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, Speaker Paula Krugmeier went on to receive degrees in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning. Her practice spanned forty years in Cambridge, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California. In 1990 when living nearby San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum, she wandered, quite by chance, into their exhibition on Anatolian kilim rugs presented concurrently with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets. That epic show sparked Paula’s interest in collecting rugs and textiles, and inspired travels including six trips through Central Asia and other journeys in Tibet, Ladakh, Türkiye, Greece, Syria, the Balkans and Russia. About 15 years ago Paula acquired her first Syrian textile and has assembled a collection encompassing a range of pieces from the region.
Image: Abaya c1851 Farroukh Khan Amin al-Dowleh, Sothebys
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