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		<title>ALONG THE SILK ROAD: UZBEKISTAN, April 2012</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[STUDY TOURS 2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bukhara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along the Silk Road: join a new adventure starting on April 19 in Tashkent: this is the best time to visit Samarkand, Bukhara; the tour will cover the main Islamic treasures of Uzbekistan avoiding long bus journeys. International textile oriented group, great hospitality, fusion food, all meals included. Download the program  DISCOVER UZBEKISTAN  and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture at the Turkish Cultural Foundation: Istanbul, March 16th</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracing the Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania Transylvania continues to be the repository of the richest and best preserved corpus of small-format Turkish rugs outside the Islamic world. Almost 400 examples from late 15th to mid 18th century, including the golden period of the Ottoman production, still survive in the area. On the top, almost 200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop on Tuduc Rugs: San Francisco, Sat. 11th Febr. 11.30 am</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER PAP ORIENTAL RUGS &#8211; 470 Jackson Street, San Francisco, www.peterpap.com Half of the fun would go out of carpet collecting if there were no fakes or forgeries or at least no wrongly attributed pieces… (Kurt Erdmann) Tuduc’s forgeries have fooled museum curators, auction experts, great collectors or carpet scholars of the calibre of James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISCOVER TRANSYLVANIA   2008 &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thank you so much for a truly wonderful trip. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  You are a fabulous host and guide.  We look forward to going on another adventure with you one day.Thank you again for all your time, energy and enthusiasm. A bientot I hope,&#8221; Mary Jo Otsea &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8220;Thank you Stefano &#8212; and many, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRIP TO ITALY: from Sartirana to Palermo, 13-24 Sept. 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[early Christian mosaics and Cosmatesque pavements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was an  unusual tour which, based on personal experiences. We all met in Sartirana the day of the Preview of the Textile Show organised by Alberto Boralevi. Download the brochure of the tour: TRIP TO ITALY SEPTEMBER 2011 Our location was in Mortara (2 nights) close to Sartirana. Milan Malpensa airport is just 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHITE NIGHTS IN ST PETERSBURG, June, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tim and I want to thank you so much for arranging yet another fabulous tour.  We can&#8217;t tell you how much we appreciated all of your hard work on our St. Petersburg excursion! Thanks again. &#8221; Tim &#38; Penny Hayes Washington &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-]]></description>
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		<title>DISCOVER TRANSYLVANIA, May, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ekaterina Ermakova and I would like to thank you for the amazing trip to Romania. We both enjoyed it a lot. Every day we discovered something new, either learned about Transylvanian rugs or enjoyed an organ concert, or visited a wonderful museum. Thank you for putting together this rich educational and entertaining program. A variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handbook of Fakes by Tuduc</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book presents a large body of work attributable to the workshop of Teodor Tuduc together with authentic examples, which served as prototypes for Tuduc forgeries. The author has developed a framework for identifying Tuducs, which involves examination of technical and stylistic characteristics of Tuduc’s workmanship. This methodology is based on the study of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US talk Tour November 2010: Ottoman rugs in Transylvania and  folk kilims from Romania</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[TALKS AND LECTURES]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of ACOR (American Conference on Oriental Rugs) Stefano Ionescu was invited for a 3 weeks speaking tour of the major Rug Societies in US: Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles. Fri 29 Oct             PHILADELPHIA &#8211; RUG &#38; TEXTILE SOCIETY Contact: Sami Rabinovici Late Turkish rugs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghiordes Prayer rug, formerly in the Aita collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ANTIQUE RUGS GALLERY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ghiordes prayer rug, West Anatolia, about 1700, 5ft.1in. x 3ft.9in, wool on wool, lazy lines. Light wear, a few scattered areas of old repiling. For its design, colours and proportions this is a great example of that particular type of West Anatolian prayer rugs, dating from the beginning of the 18th century, highly sought after [...]]]></description>
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