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Carpets: A Love Affair (Taster Lecture)
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Thinking about an online course? Join V&A Academy Course Director Jennifer Wearden for a free, live online lecture to learn more about V&A’s large collection of carpets. The collection demonstrates how these hand-made floor coverings, imported from Asia and North Africa, were first used as impressive status symbols and then as desirable home furnishings and, later still, why some of them were acknowledged as great works of art.
Get to know the V&A Academy learning platform when you join the taster lecture. You will receive a link to join the live lecture 24 hours before the event, as well as a link to the recording afterwards, so that you can enjoy watching the lecture on demand.
Should you wish to sign up to receive the lecture recording of our taster lecture, please look out for our follow on listing which will be published soon, from Tuesday 12 November.
Jennifer Wearden is the Course Director of the 12-week online course Carpets from East and West, Thursdays 16 January to 3 April 2025. Click here to find out more: Carpets from East and West - V&A Academy Course at Online · V&A (vam.ac.uk)
Get to know the V&A Academy learning platform when you join the taster lecture. You will receive a link to join the live lecture 24 hours before the event, as well as a link to the recording afterwards, so that you can enjoy watching the lecture on demand.
Should you wish to sign up to receive the lecture recording of our taster lecture, please look out for our follow on listing which will be published soon, from Tuesday 12 November.
Jennifer Wearden is the Course Director of the 12-week online course Carpets from East and West, Thursdays 16 January to 3 April 2025. Click here to find out more: Carpets from East and West - V&A Academy Course at Online · V&A (vam.ac.uk)
Course Director
Jennifer Wearden
Jennifer Wearden was a V&A textile curator for 28 years, responsible for the V&A’s collection of Turkish, Persian, Caucasian, Central Asian and European carpets. She has authored/co-authored publications such as Samplers, Ottoman Embroidery, World Dress in Detail, Oriental Carpets, Iranian Textiles and lead and lectures on V&A Academy courses.
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Online course: Carpets: A Love Affair (Taster Lecture)
11 November 2024
Free
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Header image: Morris, William. "Bullerswood Carpet". Museum Nr. T.31-1923.