Carpets: A Love Affair - Taster Lecture Recording

Thinking about an online course? Try a free one-hour art history lecture recording that you can enjoy when it suits you best. Simply sign up to receive your recording link and join V&A Academy Course Director Jennifer Wearden for a free 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.

To book, simply sign up to the V&A Academy newsletter by clicking 'book now'. Once signed up you will receive the viewing link in your welcome email within 24 hours. You will have access to the recording of this taster lecture for a limited time until March 2025.

Please note, this taster lecture recording cannot be booked via phone or via the shopping basket. For any questions please get in touch via courses@vam.ac.uk.

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)