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Le ciel dans un tapis

The sky in a carpet
From december 7 2004 to march 31 2005
Tapestries, carpets, textiles
The exhibit brings together some sixty rugs from the classic period (from the XVth to the XIXth centuries), woven in Mameluke Egypt, in Ottoman Turkey and in Persia under the Safavides, to which a few Caucasian, Turkman and Moroccan pieces have been added. Workshop, village and tribe rugs, all show strong and remarkable figures, as if they had "fallen from the sky".

Institut du monde arabe

1, rue des fossés Saint-Bernard
Place Mohammed V
75005 Paris - France

Téléphone 01 40 51 38 38
Fax 01 43 54 76 45
Mail ima@imarabe.org
Web http:/ / www.imarabe.org
Hours :
Horaire(s) d'ouverturefrom 10 am to 6 pm
Monday
Labour day (May, 1st)

Admission :

Admission fee : 7 €
Concessions : 5 €
Free : Under 10
Pass : 14 €
Pass : 12 €
Prayer mat in pomegranates Turkestan, Béchir, tribe of Ersari, 19th century, Chains woolen, woolen weft, woolen velvet, neuds Turkish Lisbon, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian © Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian / Ph. Mario de Oliveira
MORE INFORMATION :
Catalogue: Le Ciel dans un tapis, collective work, © IMA / Calouste-Gulbenkian Fondation / SDZ, 23,5 x 30 cm, 208 pages, 35 €, bound with flaps version and 100 illustrations