Textile And Rug Museum

This collection ranges from rugs produced in court and urban workshops to works woven by women in rural villages and nomadic encampments.

Textile and rug museum.

You are invited to sumbit related pieces to share during the program. After sixty years of working as a master weaver museum quality restorer and appraiser of fine persian and oriental rugs and textiles i am announcing my retirement. Foroosh was born in persia in the year 1939. We have one of the most important research collections of rugs from the islamic world with examples from egypt islamic spain mughal india north africa turkey the caucasus iran central asia and china.

The textile museum was established in 1925 by george hewitt myers a rug and textile collector and connoisseur and was formerly housed in the building his family called home. For generations his family who lived in the ancient city of kerman greatly contributed to the advancement of the art of persian rug weaving. In 2011 we restored our 1850 s barn for use as an exhibition gallery classrooms collections storage and general purpose. About rug and textile appreciation mornings collectors and experts discuss textile topics and display examples from their personal holdings.

This series is named in honor of late textile museum trustee emeritus harold m. At the time of its founding the museum s collection included 275 rugs and sixty related textiles a collection myers had built since the 1890s. The george washington university museum and the textile museum the george washington university. His father was a reputed master weaver particularly skillful in the profession of restoring antique oriental rugs and in this capacity he was frequently invited to international expositions around the.

Visit us at one of our upcoming events. The cotsen textile traces study collection the cotsen textile traces study collection provides opportunities for researchers to examine nearly 4 000 textile fragments from antiquity to the present day. As a courtesy i want my customers to know that now is the best time to bring in your rugs for repair and restoration. Description p mahbod foroosh originally from persia offers his expertise in weaving hand washing and restoration of antique and semi antique rugs at the textile and rug museum.

Foroosh citizen of the united sates of america is offering his over 50 years of practical experience and professional skill in the fields of weaving dyeing technical spot removing and hand washing as well as restoring and appraisal of contemporary and antique persian oriental rugs and other textiles to you. The textile museum collection includes more than 21 000 examples of handmade textile art representing five continents and five millennia.