[MR] For Embroiderers and those who explore Ottoman Decorative Motifs

[Susan Campbell]

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has an exhibition of 13 textiles and 12 Ottoman motifs running through September of this year.  Details can be found

http://www.thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=522

The Ottoman Empire was home to a variety of ethnic and religious communities.  Despite their cultural differences, these communities shared a sophisticated language of ornament, that each cultural group modified and adapted to its own individual needs and values.  The Walters Art Museum has an excellent, but little-known, collection of embroidered textiles from Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia, Algeria, and other regions of the former Ottoman Empire.  This Focus Exhibition includes 13 rarely seen textiles and 12 objects that display many of the ornamental motifs that are typical of Ottoman decorative art.
        

Thank you for your kind attention.

Lady Mori Matsunomae
mka Susan Moury