On this page you can find a historical compilation of our past newsletters. Simply click on the newsletter of interest.

 

2005/2006 Season

• Vol. 8, No. 6 May 2006	“Baluch Rugs” DeWitt Mallary
• Vol. 8, No. 5 Mar 2006	“Turkomen of the Middle Amu Daraya - The Weavings of the Ersari” Erik Risman
• Vol. 8, No. 4 Jan 2006	"Testing for Dyes in Early Navajo Weavings." Dr. David Wenger
• Vol. 8, No. 3 Dec 2005	"Kashmir Shawl Design And Gardens In The Flow Of Time." Eunice Dauterman Maguire
• Vol. 8, No. 2 Nov 2005	"Transylvanian Rugs in their Context." Alberto Boralevi
• PRTS Exhibit Nov 2005	"Collector's Choice: Rugs and Textiles as Art." PRTS members
• Vol. 8, No. 1 Sep 2005	"How the Great Carpets Were Made." Dr. Jon Thompson

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2004/2005 Season

• Vol. 7, No. 6 Apr 2005	"Persian Nomads" Dr. Douglas Lay
• Vol. 7, No. 5 Mar 2005	"Cicim: The Infinitely Complex Pattern-Weft Weavings of Anatolia" Donna Endres
• Vol. 7, No. 4 Feb 2005	"Copies, Fakes and Reproductions" Wendell Swan
• Vol. 7, No. 3 Jan 2005	"How To: Display Your Rugs & Textiles Like A Professional" Esther Méthé
• Vol. 7, No. 1 Sep 2004	“The Anatolian Kilim: Its Technique & Design.” Dr. Peter Davies

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2003/2004 Season

• Vol. 6, No. 7 Jun 2004	"Annual Picnic" PRTS members
• Vol. 6, No. 6 Mar 2004	“Tulips to Roses: Rethinking Ottoman Embroidery in the 18th Century." Sumru Belger Krody
• Vol. 6, No. 5 Feb 2004	"Natural Dyes - Synthetic Dyes, What Is and Makes the Difference?" Dr. Harald Bohmer
• Vol. 6, No. 4 Jan 2004	"Turkmen Carpets: Tribal Messages from the Past." Elena Tzareva
• Vol. 6, No. 3 Dec 2003	"Alhambra and the Textiles: Decoration, Space, and Articulation of Court Ritual in Islamic Andalucia." Olga Bush
• Vol. 6, No. 2 Oct 2003	“Hidden in Plain Sight; Patterns of Intentional Variation in Traditional Oriental Rugs” Shiv Sikri
• Vol. 6, No. 1 Sep 2003	"Features of Mamluk Rugs and Carpets from Andalusia" Carol Bier

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2002/2003 Season

• Vol. 5, No. 5 Mar 2003	"Components of Rug Identification" Ellen Amirkhan
• Vol. 5, No. 5 Mar 2003	"Design Motifs in Carpets" Carol Bier
• Vol. 5, No. 5 Mar 2003	"Classical Tradition In Anatolian Carpets." (road trip to Textile Museum) Sumru Belger Krody
• Vol. 5, No. 2 Oct 2002	"Kilim Weaving in the Caucasus” Irene Koshoridze
• Vol. 5, No. 2 Oct 2002	"Weaving Traditions of Ladakh (North India)" Dr. Monisha Ahmed

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2001/2002 Season

• Vol. 4, No. 4 May 2002	"Annual Picnic"
• Vol. 4, No. 3 Mar 2002	"Nomadic and Village Rugs" Peter Pap
• Vol. 4, No. 2 Feb 2002	"Removing the Veil on North African Rugs" Jerry Sorkin
• Vol. 4, No. 1 Jan 2002	"Oriental Rug Cleaning and Restoration" Robert Mann

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Member reminders:

Dues

Annual membership fee is due now. Please take a couple minutes to ensure that your membership remains up-to-date. Ask yourself this: where else do I get to hear world-class experts lecture on a topic that I enjoy so much for less than the cost of a couple or three cups of coffee or a week of my favorite newspaper or magazine? Zero. The value of the knowledge gained here? Priceless.

Members Gallery

Members are encouraged to send, via email, image files of their rugs for inclusion in our PRTS website Members Gallery. Please send your rug image files to: Jerry Bulyk. (we prefer .JPGs, but have the means of converting almost any format)

 

Volunteers

We are always seeking to include more members to help on the operational side of things. It's not right to expect Samy, and a few others, to do so much of the "heavy lifting" in our group. We need more members to "step-up" and assume responsibility for some aspect of our organization. After all, it's your organization, too. Without members who sacrifice so much of their personal time (for free), we would not have our society.