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Each spring we find each other again in a room full of wool, silk, and stories. The Santa Ynez Carpet & Textile Forum is where a global community gathers to chew the warps and wefts, trade knowledge, and remember why we fell into this beautiful obsession. 🌍🪢
05/05/2026
A rare Qajar pictorial Kashan, likely Mohtasham school, depicting the Sufi figure Nūr ʿAlī Shāh.
What makes this piece especially compelling is the inscriptional border, which identifies the central image and frames it as a protective devotional portrait. A working translation of the verse reads:
“Whoever beholds your image upon this small carpet is delivered from the troubles of the world, safe from the evil eye, and sheltered beneath the protection of the saintly Shah.”
The rug is both portrait and talisman: a finely woven devotional image where poetry, protection, and Sufi reverence are brought together in fine wool.
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From Angkor to the loom.
The same visual language carved in stone centuries ago continues today in Cambodian hol (ikat), where patterns are dyed into silk before weaving.
Apsaras, once etched into temple walls, reappear in thread. Seen up close, the continuity feels immediate.
Techniques nearly lost during the Khmer Rouge genocide are now being preserved and passed on at places like the Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles.
📷: Heirloom & IKTT
04/11/2026
Ivory fields, floating florals, and a palette that feels like a soft exhale, just in time for spring 🌸 this first quarter Chinese Deco features an asymmetrical flowering tree that gives the whole composition room to breathe!
A big thank you to everyone who came out to view and learn more about Lin Qiqing’s work. It was such a fun evening full of conversation and textile community engagement.
We’re so excited to have her work on view-be sure to come by and experience it in person over the next few months 🌸
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