Odds & Ends: Personal Notes. Marla Mallett

Odds & Ends: Personal Notes and Photos
Marla Mallett	Galleria Fanchetti alla Cà d'Oro in Venice.
The San Francisco version of the biennial American rug bash, ACOR, and the Italian ICOC are now just fond memories, and it's a while 'till the next -- ACOR 2002 in Indianapolis and ICOC 2003 in Washington. So now for our periodic "rug fixes" it's the local rug societies (see the ACOR website for contact information), and on-line discussion board debates. Pics of part of the Turkotek gang are posted on my LINKS page, so check out that motley crew, then put in your two-cents-worth -- on both that board and Barry O'Connell's RugNotes. You can still order exhibition catalogs from last fall's fabulous International Conference on Oriental Carpets in Milan, Florence and Venice: See the ICOC website. Check out the catalogs of rug-book dealers on my LINKS page for other published inspiration. Below are assorted pics of rug-world friends, taken at miscellaneous clan gatherings.

Wendel Swan and friends discussed "Mystery Rugs" at the closing session of ACOR. Then we adjourned for a bus trip to Occidental and Jim Dixon's amazing collections.		.	Sharon Fenlan, board chairman of ACOR, made sure that we all had a fabulous time in San Francisco.
		Eiland and Eiland. Murray, with son Mur, at the Palazzo Reale exhibition in Milan. If you do not yet have the new edition of their book, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, be sure to check it out. Just about everybody agrees that it is the best single rug book in print.
Getting a serious look at one of the Thyssen Bornemisza carpets in Lugano, Switzerland.		Charles Lave and Bethany Mendenhall, Los Angeles collectors and loyal ACOR boosters.
Sally Sherrill, New York editor and scholar.		Lunch at the Palazzo della Stelline, Milan. Wendel and Diane Swan, Inge and Mike Tschebull, Marla Mallett, and Daniel Deschuyteneer.
Josephine Powell in Florence. Finally a center for Anatolian Ethnograply and Textile Studies is being created in Istanbul that will make her invaluable archives and collections available to everyone. Click here to read more about it and see photos by Josephine.		Joe Doherty checks out a Lotto carpet in Lugano.
Erol Kazanci (in front), Daniel Deschuyteneer, Wendel Swan, Marla Mallett, and Cornelia Montgomery in Lugano.			Donna Endres and Cheri Hunter in Venice.
Donna and John Sommer in Venice.		Danny Shaffer, HALI Editor, with Robert Pinner at the superb Florence exhibition organized by Alberto Boralevi.
John Howe, Washington Turkoman collector		Reception at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, in Florence.
Tschebulls and others on Venice's Grand Canal. Mike and Inge now have a new website with superb rugs: www.tschebullantiquecarpets.com .		Mark Hopkins, at home in Boston, with a mystery rug.
Allan Arthur and Steve Hofmann. Allan's great website, with a zillion old rugs illustrated, is one of the most popular on the Net. Check it out at www.cyberrug.com.			Steve Price, Turkoman collector and host of the lively Turkotek rug discussion board.
Stella and Fred Krieger, California collectors		Carl Strock, editor extraordinaire, with Don Hufman in Philadelphia
Erik and Benji Risman at home in Indiana. Plans are already underway for ACOR 6, scheduled for 2002 in Indianapolis--a monumental undertaking.		Linda Robinson and Harald Böhmer in Orsille, Turkey. Dr. Böhmer is the natural-dye specialist at Marmara University in Istanbul who organized the well-known DOBAG weaving cooperatives and launched a natural-dye revival in Turkey.
My favorite gang of Egyptian weavers and weavers-to-be		Junko Ito, Tokyo editor and kilim enthusiast
	Julia Bailey, Boston scholar and curator	New York kilim experts Peter Davies and Marian Miller
Garia Mahmoud and Rowhia Ali, leading Egyptian tapestry artists, at Garia's place in Harrania		Part of the Indiana rug society gang
	Our own Elibelinde: Chicago painter and collector, Sophia Gates	Mitch and Rosalie Rudnick at home--with early Caucasian rugs, of course
Dede Moore, Cleveland Rug Doyenne		Turkish Yuntdag friends with new puppies
Part of my family. Back, left to right: son David, husband Chris, niece Tanya, brother-in-law Chet; Front: mother Gladys, and sister Beth			..And niece Tasha with the newest member of the crew, Julia.

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Odds & Ends: Personal Notes and Photos

Marla Mallett

Galleria Fanchetti alla Cà d'Oro in Venice.

Wendel Swan and friends discussed "Mystery Rugs" at the closing session of ACOR. Then we adjourned for a bus trip to Occidental and Jim Dixon's amazing collections.

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Sharon Fenlan, board chairman of ACOR, made sure that we all had a fabulous time in San Francisco.

Eiland and Eiland. Murray, with son Mur, at the Palazzo Reale exhibition in Milan. If you do not yet have the new edition of their book, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, be sure to check it out. Just about everybody agrees that it is the best single rug book in print.

Getting a serious look at one of the Thyssen Bornemisza carpets in Lugano, Switzerland.

Charles Lave and Bethany Mendenhall, Los Angeles collectors and loyal ACOR boosters.

Sally Sherrill, New York editor and scholar.

Lunch at the Palazzo della Stelline, Milan. Wendel and Diane Swan, Inge and Mike Tschebull, Marla Mallett, and Daniel Deschuyteneer.

Josephine Powell in Florence. Finally a center for Anatolian Ethnograply and Textile Studies is being created in Istanbul that will make her invaluable archives and collections available to everyone. Click here to read more about it and see photos by Josephine.

Joe Doherty checks out a Lotto carpet in Lugano.

Erol Kazanci (in front), Daniel Deschuyteneer, Wendel Swan, Marla Mallett, and Cornelia Montgomery in Lugano.

Donna Endres and Cheri Hunter in Venice.

Donna and John Sommer in Venice.

Danny Shaffer, HALI Editor, with Robert Pinner at the superb Florence exhibition organized by Alberto Boralevi.

John Howe, Washington Turkoman collector

Reception at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, in Florence.

Tschebulls and others on Venice's Grand Canal. Mike and Inge now have a new website with superb rugs: www.tschebullantiquecarpets.com .

Mark Hopkins, at home in Boston, with a mystery rug.

Allan Arthur and Steve Hofmann. Allan's great website, with a zillion old rugs illustrated, is one of the most popular on the Net. Check it out at www.cyberrug.com.

Steve Price, Turkoman collector and host of the lively Turkotek rug discussion board.

Stella and Fred Krieger, California collectors

Carl Strock, editor extraordinaire, with Don Hufman in Philadelphia

Erik and Benji Risman at home in Indiana. Plans are already underway for ACOR 6, scheduled for 2002 in Indianapolis--a monumental undertaking.

Linda Robinson and Harald Böhmer in Orsille, Turkey. Dr. Böhmer is the natural-dye specialist at Marmara University in Istanbul who organized the well-known DOBAG weaving cooperatives and launched a natural-dye revival in Turkey.

My favorite gang of Egyptian weavers and weavers-to-be

Junko Ito, Tokyo editor and kilim enthusiast

Julia Bailey, Boston scholar and curator

New York kilim experts Peter Davies and Marian Miller

Garia Mahmoud and Rowhia Ali, leading Egyptian tapestry artists, at Garia's place in Harrania

Part of the Indiana rug society gang

Our own Elibelinde: Chicago painter and collector, Sophia Gates

Mitch and Rosalie Rudnick at home--with early Caucasian rugs, of course

Dede Moore, Cleveland Rug Doyenne

Turkish Yuntdag friends with new puppies

Part of my family. Back, left to right: son David, husband Chris, niece Tanya, brother-in-law Chet; Front: mother Gladys, and sister Beth

..And niece Tasha with the newest member of the crew, Julia.

Wendel Swan and friends discussed "Mystery
Rugs" at the closing session of ACOR. Then we
adjourned for a bus trip to Occidental and Jim
Dixon's amazing collections.

Sharon Fenlan, board chairman
of ACOR, made sure that we all
had a fabulous time in San Francisco.

Eiland and Eiland. Murray, with son Mur,
at the Palazzo Reale exhibition in Milan.

If you do not yet have the new edition of their book, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, be sure to check it out. Just about everybody agrees that it is the best single rug book in print.

Getting a serious look at one of the Thyssen
Bornemisza carpets in Lugano, Switzerland.

Sally Sherrill, New York
editor and scholar.

Lunch at the Palazzo della Stelline, Milan. Wendel and Diane Swan, Inge and Mike Tschebull, Marla
Mallett, and Daniel Deschuyteneer.

Josephine Powell in Florence. Finally a center
for Anatolian Ethnograply and Textile Studies is
being created in Istanbul that will make her
invaluable archives and collections available to
everyone. Click here to read more about it and see photos by Josephine.

Joe Doherty checks out a Lotto
carpet in Lugano.

Erol Kazanci (in front), Daniel Deschuyteneer,
Wendel Swan, Marla Mallett, and Cornelia
Montgomery in Lugano.

Donna Endres and Cheri
Hunter in Venice.

Danny Shaffer, HALI Editor, with
Robert Pinner at the superb Florence
exhibition organized by Alberto Boralevi.

John Howe, Washington
Turkoman collector

Reception at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
in Florence.

Tschebulls and others on Venice's Grand Canal.
Mike and Inge now have a new website with superb rugs: www.tschebullantiquecarpets.com .

Mark Hopkins, at home in Boston, with a mystery
rug.

Allan Arthur and Steve Hofmann.
Allan's great website, with a zillion old rugs
illustrated, is one of the most popular on the Net.
Check it out at www.cyberrug.com.

Steve Price, Turkoman collector and
host of the lively Turkotek rug discussion board.

Stella and Fred Krieger,
California collectors

Carl Strock, editor extraordinaire, with Don
Hufman in Philadelphia

My favorite gang of Egyptian weavers and
weavers-to-be

Julia Bailey,
Boston
scholar and
curator

Our own
Elibelinde:
Chicago
painter and
collector,
Sophia
Gates

Mitch and Rosalie Rudnick at home--with early
Caucasian rugs, of course

Dede Moore, Cleveland Rug
Doyenne

Part of my family. Back, left to right: son David,
husband Chris, niece Tanya, brother-in-law Chet;
Front: mother Gladys, and sister Beth

..And niece Tasha with the newest
member of the crew, Julia.