Saturday, March 2, 2024
1 pm | Virtual
Join the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for the 14th annual Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture on Ottoman textiles with Amanda Phillips, associate professor at the University of Virginia.
In the Ottoman Empire, the making, exchange, and use of textiles touched every level of society. Lively trade with Italy, Iran, and India was complemented by the huge array of textiles made within the empire’s bounds. In this talk, Amanda Phillips offers a series of object studies, while also considering how different types of textiles interact. It begins with a hanging made for a Sultan around 1400, moves on to velvet-weaving in Bursa, and ends with an 18th-century barber’s apron in the Museums’ collection.