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		<title>ALONG THE SILK ROAD: Early April 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic art treasures of Uzbekistan. Program comming soon.


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		<title>DISCOVER TRANSYLVANIA 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please contact Stefano Ionescu (mobile +39 3476703724) to organise your next trip to Transylvania.
September 10 to 18 - Transylvania &#38; Bucovina 





Participants will see dozens of rare Romanian flatwaves and almost 300 Ottoman rugs from late 15th to 18th century, in the Lutheran Churches and the Museums of the region, including examples in the store-rooms.
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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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		<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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		<title>CLASSICAL SYRIA 30 April 2010: from Damascus to Aleppo and Konia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek, Roman, Byzantine, early Christian, Jewish, Armenian and Islamic vestiges in an Eastern Mediterranean country characterised by a variety of cultural influences.


Download the program of the tour English
Programma del tour ITALIANO
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		<title>Discover Transylvania   2008 &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos and testimonials from the past study tours.

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		<title>ANTICHITATI ROMÂNIA: Covoarele Otomane de la Bistriţa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La sfârşitul celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial arhiva, covoarele si alte odoare aflate în Biserica Evanghelică de la Bistriţa au fost luate spre a fi salvate de saşii care s-au refugiat în Germania.

În 1952, toate acestea au fost date în păstrare Muzeului Naţional German din Nürnberg, fiind de atunci inaccesibile.
La peste 60 de ani după [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HALI 160, 2009: The Ottoman rugs from Bistriţa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Moves are at last underway to restore to their rightful home more than fifty Ottoman Turkish rugs taken fromTransylvania to Germany late in WorldWar II by the Saxon parishioners of the Lutheran Church in Bistrita, Romania. Since 1952, the rugs have been held in storage, ‘on loan’ to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institute of Arab &amp; Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, July 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Institute of Arab &#38; Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 9th July 2009
Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries: The Society and Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean, c. 500-1500


 
The Art of the Carpet in the Mediterranean

Prof Walter B Denny (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Classical Carpet Tradition in the East, the Middle, and the West::  A Tripartite View of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academy Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 2008 the volume Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania has been awarded the G. Oprescu Prize of the Romanian Academy in History of Art.  This is the most important award for a book in Romania and also one of the very rare academic awards for a carpet book, worldwide.
 Downloads



Activitate_Stefan_Ionescu.pdf
Comunicat Presa.pdf
Cover_Premiul_Academiei.pdf
Proiect_editorial.pdf





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		<title>Schmutzler: Altorientalische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen</title>
		<link>http://www.transylvanianrugs.com/?p=793</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first compact reprint of Emil Schmutzler’s famous book. It was meant to celebrate 75th years from the pubblication, by Anton Hiersemann of Leipzig in 1933,  of the fundamental work Altorientalische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen. Download the borochure.

The reprint was produced in 35 copies, with digital technology on special cotton woven paper. The color [...]]]></description>
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