ICOC-X: Presenters and Presentation Titles
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Serife Atlihan, Turkey End Designs on Topkapi Palace Museum Prayer Rugs
Siawosch Ulrich Azadi, Germany The Importance of Signed and Dated Post-Classic Persian Carpets and Rugs
Yonathan Bard, USA Pattern Irregularities in Turkmen Rugs
Herwig Bartels, Morocco Textiles of the Ait Wafqa Berber Tribe, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Peter Bichler, Austria Etruscan Textiles from 800 to 350 BC
Carol Bier, USA Looking at Carpets/Seeing Mathematics and Philosophy
Stephanie Bunn, UK Felt Carpets of the Central Asian Nomads
Roger G. Cavanna, USA The Qashqai as Settled Cottage Industry Weavers
Robert Chenciner, UK Dragons in the Caucasus
Thomas Cole, USA Turkmen Embroidery
Nehat Diyarbekirli, Turkey The Art of Weaving in in Southwest Anatolia
Christian Erber, Germany Large Medallion Suzanies in German Collections
Thomas J. Farnham, USA Creating a Collection: The Rockefeller Experience
Aimee Froom, USA The Brooklyn Museum of Art's Spanish Carpet
Sophia Gates, USA The Science of Art: Looking at Rugs Through a Painter's Eyes
Anette Granlund, Sweden The Development of the Swedish Carpet
Ernst J. Grube, United States Some Thoughts on Suzanis
Jessica Hallett, Portugal Carpets in Portugal
Eileen Bedoukian Hampshire, USA The Angel Rug
Sumru Belger Krody, USA From Tulips to Roses: Changing Trends in Ottoman Embroidery
Markku Lemmetyinen, Finland Tracks of the Sledge
DeWitt Mallary, USA Designs Common to Baluch Group Rugs and Urban/Workshop Carpets of Khorasan
Marla Mallett, USA Some Odd Technical Features in Turkmen Tent Bands
Renate Anna Menzel, Austria The Language of Patterns in Tribal Women's Textiles of Central Tunisia
Brian Morehouse, USA Three Fars Rugs
Khosrow Movahed, Iran The Effect of Natural Dyeing on Persian Carpet Quality
Sumiyo Okumura, Turkey The Octagonal Medallion on Mamluk Carpets
Cyrus Parham, Iran The Botteh Motif
Robert Pinner, UK The Turkmen Ensi
Steven Price, USA "Stray Reds" in Turkmen Weavings
Jurg Rageth, Switzerland Radiocarbon Dating and Oriental Carpet & Textile Studies
Janet M. Roberts, USA Continuity and Loss in a Journey on the Silk Road
David Reuben, UK Tribal Gols of the Turkmen
Tad Runge, USA The Growth of the Rug Industry in Persia in the Late 19th Century
Taher Sabahi, Italy DIV: Demons, Winged Genies and Talking Trees: From Myth to Rug
Susan Scollay, Australia Hunting Imagery in Kaitag Embroideries from Daghestan
Sarah B. Sherrill, USA Ghost Story: Vestiges of a Vanished Turkish Carpet Design Seen in Some European 16th- and 17th-Century Embroidered and Pile Carpets
Franz Sindermann, Germany, and Manvi Seth, India Some Facts about the Jaipur Carpet Treasury
Erika Tashlitskaya, USA Color Features of Daghestan Carpets
Jon Thompson, UK The Origin of the "Lappet" Design in Anatolian Yastiks
Elena Tsareva, Russia Knotted Weavings of the Karakalpaks
Nalan Turkmen, Turkey Some Examples of Anatolian Textiles Woven by the Karakecili
Michael Wendorf, USA Weftless Soumak, An 8000 Year-Old Weaving Tradition
Rika Yamamoto, Japan Zoroastrian Textiles
Poster Presentations
Youssef Azemoun, Turkey An Etymological Study of the Russian Kovyor (Carpet)
Mustafa Genç and Recep Karadag, Turkey Weaving in Silifke Turkmen
Elgin Karadag and Recep Karadag, Turkey Major Characteristics of the Biggest Hereke Carpet in the Yildiz Sale Mansion
Irina Koshoridze, Georgia Akhaltzikhe Rugs
Didem Ozhekim, Turkey Common Motifs in West Anatolian Carpets
Chris K. Palmer, USA Geometry in Mamluk Rugs
Franz Sindermann, Germany A Statistical Investigation of the 17th-Century Red Ground Floral Carpets
Cigdem Cini Senturk, Turkey Design Categories in Anatolian Kilims
Shiv Sikri, USA Noise versus Signal in Oriental Rugs
Hulya Tezcan, Turkey The Gift Procession Tents of the Ottoman Sultans
Martin Tischer, Germany Turkmen Ensis and European Door-Architecture
Film Presentations
Harald Böhmer, Turkey Kelim Weaving and Brocading Flatweaves by Yörüks