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WEBINAR: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am PT / 12 noon ET, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, UK.  Co-sponsored by  ...
WEBINAR: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am PT / 12 noon ET, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, UK.  Co-sponsored by  ...
WEBINAR: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am PT / 12 noon ET, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, UK.  Co-sponsored by  ...
WEBINAR: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am PT / 12 noon ET, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, UK.  Co-sponsored by  ...
WEBINAR: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am PT / 12 noon ET, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, UK.  Co-sponsored by  ...
webinar: "Woven Treasures from the East in the Royal Tudor Court" Saturday, November 13, 9 am pt / 12 noon et, with Dr. Lauren Mackay, Historian, Author, Lecturer, uk. Co-sponsored by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California & The Textile Museum / gwu. Free Registration: https://bit.ly/3mqu75jTMAwovtreasuresTudor For the Tudors, the Islamic world of the 16th century was an endless source of fascination and delight, swathed in fine silks, bursting with spices and draped in luxurious and vibrant tapestries and carpets. Henry VIII’s chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, began the Tudor love affair with Orientalism, and soon English society coveted Ottoman and Persian culture: Its art, dress, textiles and carpets became highly sought–after symbols of wealth and power. Royal inventories overflowed with Ottoman and Persian carpets traded to England, and there are detailed accounts of Henry VIII’s opulent and costly Turkish themed banquets. It was the ambition of royalty and of any wealthy noble family — indeed of Henry himself — to be portrayed at least once in their lives in a portrait featuring an Oriental textile or carpet. Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth i, excommunicated and exiled from the rest of Europe, would further the relationship between England and its Eastern counterparts by making the unprecedented move of reaching out to both the Ottoman and Persian Empires, wearing contemporary English court gowns made of their silks, and commanding their respect, earning the title “Sultana Isabel”. In this virtual talk, historian and author Lauren MacKay threads the magnificent intersection of East and West into the broader Tudor narrative, with vivid visual representations of Oriental material culture, which flowed between the Islamic world and the Tudor’s “Sceptred Isle.” Free Registration: https://bit.ly/3mqu75jTMAwovtreasuresTudor Questions? info@tmasc.org