DAY 1 - Saturday 30^th August

09:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks
Farhad Hakimzadeh

10:10-11:30
Session 1: Early Sources of Design
Chair: James Allan

Julia Bailey, Carpets and "Kufesque"

Yolande Crowe, The Importance of a 1243 Chinese Tomb and other Dated Documents During the Pax Mongolica

11:30-12:00 Tea/Coffee

12:00 - 13:30
Session 2: Carpets in the 15^th Century: Herat and Tabriz
Chair: Eleanor Sims

Jon Thompson, Timurid Carpets, a Reappraisal

Walter Denny, Anatolia, Tabriz and the Carpet Design Revolution

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00
Session 3: The Safavid Carpet: Development and Export
Chair: Jon Thompson

Christine Klose, Traces of Timurid Carpets in Contemporary and Later Carpets from the Near East

Jessica Hallett, "From the Looms of Yazd and Isfahan": The Persian Carpet in Portugal

16:00 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee

16:30-17:50
Session 4: Safavid Textiles Abroad
Chair: Thomas J. Farnham

Katsuhiko Abe, Safavid Textiles in Kire-Tekagami: Japanese Textile Albums

Mary Anderson McWilliams, A Persian Velvet for a Boston Brahmin

17:50-18:00 Closing remarks for the day

DAY 2 - Sunday 31^st August

09:30 - 11:00
Session 5: Cross Border Influences - The Indo-Persian Connection
Chair: Mary Anderson McWilliams

Steven Cohen, Parallels Between the Manufacture of Luxury Textiles from Kork, Fine Kirmani Goat Hair, and Pashmina, Indian 'Kashmir' Goat Hair

Willem Floor, Import of Indian Textiles into 17th Century Persia

11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00
Session 6: Iran and Europe
Chair: Willem Floor

Beata Biedronska-Slota, Persian Sashes Preserved in Polish Collections

René Bekius, Competition or Cooperation: New Archival Sources about Armenian Textile Traders and Dutch Trading Companies in the Safavid and Ottoman Empires

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30
Session 7: Eastern Fashions and Western Taste
Chair: Walter Denny

Patricia Baker, "Wrought of Gold or Silver": Honorific Garments in 17th century Iran

Jennifer Scarce, The Textiles of 16th Century Safavid Dress -Their Interpretation in the Illustrations of Contemporary Manuscripts

15:30-16:00 Closing remarks for the Conference