Meeting Announcement:

Embroideries from Uzbekistan

with

Natalia Nekrassova

at

The Burke Room, The Burke Museum

University of Washington Campus

Monday, June 14^th, 2004, 7:00 PM

Embroideries from Uzbekistan are renowned for their beauty and workmanship, and are very popular with collectors. Our speaker, Natalia Nekrassova, from the Textile Museum of Canada, will present a lecture that features many fine examples from this tradition, ranging from large suzani wall hangings to smaller tribal bags and decorations.

She will talk about the old traditions of Central Asian embroidery, including how to distinguish the work of different Uzbek sub-groups. By analyzing variations in style, differences in materials, stitching, color and composition, she will show how to determine which part of the Uzbek tradition a piece comes from.

Natalia Nekrassova is the Oriental carpets and textiles curator at the Textile Museum of Canada. During her two years in this museum she has curated several exhibitions such as "Out Of This World: Textiles From the Spirit Realm", "Living in Afghanistan", "Silk Road", "Tibetan Textile", "Wrapped in Silk – Embroidered Shawls from Pakistan" and "All the Beauty of the World: Rugs from the Caucasus". The three latter shows are on view now. Ms. Nekrassova also recently lectured on Saryk weavings at the American Conference on Oriental Rugs in Seattle.

Before she came to Canada from Russia, Ms. Nekrassova worked in the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow for more than 20 years. She was a rug and decorative art curator and the head of the Central Asian and Caucasian department. She has traveled extensively in Central Asia and the Caucasus for field research and to purchase artifacts for the museum collection.

Meeting Schedule:

7:00 Mix and mingle. Announcements.

7:15 Natalia Nekrassova – “Embroideries from Uzbekistan”

8:15 Show and tell – if you wish, please bring an interesting textile you’d like to share with the group. An Uzbek embroidery would be particularly appropriate.

Please note: This meeting is free to all members, $5.00 at the door for guests. As always, all are welcome.

Meeting Location:

The Burke Museum is located at the Northwest corner of the University of Washington campus, near the corner of 17^th Avenue NE and NE 45^th Street. The Burke Room is on the left side of the lobby as you enter off of 17^th. Parking is available in the lot just South of the Burke Museum, or on the street in the University District.