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The Philadelphia Rug & Textile Society Presents:
"Kashmir Shawl Design And Gardens In The Flow Of Time."

Friday, December 2, 2005 7:00 PM | Presentation begins 7:30 PM
100 North 17th Street, Third Floor, Philadelphia

The perennial popularity of
the shawl's garden-based designs springs from medieval ways of seeing and composing, brought by the taste for shawls into the industrial age.

Paisley patterns have developed in ways that suggest the mobility and softness separating the shawl, as a wrapped garment, from the more stabile and geometric carpet. Even so, in its origins as well as in the most flowing patterns, the Paisley unit, or buta, occurs in Kashmir as well as European shawls in systematic repetitions and elaborations of its familiar drop shape with a bent tip.

Join us as Eunice Dauterman Maguire traces the western development of the quintessential design feature of shawls - the buta, known as paisley. Maguire is Curator of the Archaeological Collection and Director of Museum Studies for the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. She curated the recent Paisley show at the Textile Museum in Washington DC and is preparing a major paper for publication in the Textile Museum Journal.

Friday, December 2, 2005 7:00PM
Refreshments served 7:00 PM
Presentation begins 7:30PM
The Robert Morris Building, Third Floor
100 N. 17th St., Philadelphia
Mapquest Driving Directions Admission $ 15 | Free for members
RSVP to Samy Rabinovic:
[email protected] or (215) 860-8869

> > Please bring your very old paisley shawl to Show And Tell.

The Philadelphia Rug & Textile Society Presents: "Kashmir Shawl Design And Gardens In The Flow Of Time." Friday, December 2, 2005 7:00 PM \| Presentation begins 7:30 PM 100 North 17th Street, Third Floor, Philadelphia
The perennial popularity of the shawl's garden-based designs springs from medieval ways of seeing and composing, brought by the taste for shawls into the industrial age.
	Paisley patterns have developed in ways that suggest the mobility and softness separating the shawl, as a wrapped garment, from the more stabile and geometric carpet. Even so, in its origins as well as in the most flowing patterns, the Paisley unit, or buta, occurs in Kashmir as well as European shawls in systematic repetitions and elaborations of its familiar drop shape with a bent tip.
Join us as Eunice Dauterman Maguire traces the western development of the quintessential design feature of shawls - the buta, known as paisley. Maguire is Curator of the Archaeological Collection and Director of Museum Studies for the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. She curated the recent Paisley show at the Textile Museum in Washington DC and is preparing a major paper for publication in the Textile Museum Journal.
Friday, December 2, 2005 7:00PM Refreshments served 7:00 PM Presentation begins 7:30PM The Robert Morris Building, Third Floor 100 N. 17th St., Philadelphia Mapquest Driving Directions	Admission $ 15 \| Free for members RSVP to Samy Rabinovic: [email protected] or (215) 860-8869
	> > *Please bring your very old paisley shawl to Show And Tell.*