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Late Mamluk Carpets: Some New Observations
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
6:30 PM
Jon Thompson
Independent Carpet Scholar
Mamluk carpets, admired for their kaleidoscopic abstract patterns, are something of a mystery, emerging apparently out of nowhere in the late fifteenth century. Various lines of evidence, including representations of carpets in European paintings, suggest that their source was a little-known earlier tradition introduced to Egypt by weavers brought from elsewhere.
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