{"id":519,"date":"2012-10-12T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/autumn-gardens-and-the-textile-museum-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:14:00","slug":"autumn-gardens-and-the-textile-museum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/autumn-gardens-and-the-textile-museum-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Gardens and the Textile Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAutumn gardens are lovely riots of color, unlike the quiet
\nspring gardens of pastel flowers.  Acres
\nof pumpkins and fields of asters and sunflowers.<\/div>\n
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\nToday, I wish to write about another garden: \u201cThe Sultan\u2019s
\nGarden\u201d, an exhibition at The Textile Museum of Washington, D.C., through March
\n10, 2013.<\/div>\n
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\nOpening reception for The Sultan\u2019s Garden at the Textile
\nMuseum<\/div>\n
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\nArt of the Ottoman Empire exemplifies the wealth and
\ninfluence of an empire that spanned three continents and seven centuries.  Beginning in the mid 16th<\/sup> C
\nOttoman art changed from the \u201csaz\u201d style characterized by calligraphic and
\nelaborate imagery and Chinese influences to a highly stylized floral bouquet of
\ntulips, roses, carnations and other flowers. Sultan Suleyman the Magnificient
\nand his vizier, Rustem Pasa along with an apprentice, Kara Memi, who rose to
\nrun the royal studio of design, supported this change, which would become
\nvastly popular and extended far beyond the royal courts.  This artistic style would reach throughout
\nthe Ottoman Empire, through Spain and Northern Africa as well as Europe and
\nAsia.  The Arabic influence in Spain
\nwould then be transported to Spain\u2019s possessions in the new world and these magnificent
\nimages of flowers still live in the textiles of this tradition: velvets, silks
\nand carpets.
\nThe exhibition catalog by Walter B. Denny and Sumru Belger Krody is available in the Textile Museum Shop.<\/p>\n

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\nThese books are good sources of Ottoman textiles<\/p>\n

Flowers of Silk and Gold, Sumru Belger Krody, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 2000
\nOttoman Embroidery, Marianne Ellis & Jennifer Wearden, V&A Publications, Harry N. Abrams, 2001<\/p>\n

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\nThe Textile Museum is located at 2320 S Street in a lovely
\nGeorgian-style house in a quiet DC neighborhood.  Founded in 1925 by George Hewitt Myers, a textile expert and
\ncollector, the Museum is actually housed in Myers\u2019 family home.  While this is all lovely, the reality is
\nthat the museum is small and lacks sufficient space for storage, conservation
\nand research.  This month there will be
\nground-breaking for a new 35,000 sq ft facility on the campus of George
\nWashington University on the corner of G and 21st<\/sup> Street.  Also GWU will construct an additional 20,000
\nsq ft building for conservation and research on its campus in Loudon Co., VA.  Until the completion scheduled for 2014, the
\ncollection will remain in it present location.<\/div>\n
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\nFor more information about the museum and membership
\nbenefits contact www.textilemuseum.org.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Autumn gardens are lovely riots of color, unlike the quiet spring gardens of pastel flowers.  Acres of pumpkins and fields of asters and sunflowers. Today, I wish to write about another garden: \u201cThe Sultan\u2019s Garden\u201d, an exhibition at The Textile Museum of Washington, D.C., through March 10, 2013. Opening reception for The Sultan\u2019s Garden at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottoman-textiles","category-textile-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}