Medieval Silks and Textile History with Corinne Muehlemann

Art Informant

Isabelle Imbert welcomes Dr Corinne Muehlemann, Assistant Professor and Chair of the History of Textile Arts at the Institute of Art History in the University of Bern. Corinne is one of the rare specialists of silks produced during the Middle-Ages in the Islamic lands, especially in Iran and Spain. In the episode, she talks about striped silks produced in Iran under the Ilkhanid dynasty (1256-1335), the transfer of textile knowledge and technique in the Mediaeval Islamic lands and beyond, as well as the contributions of woman textile curators and conservators to the field of Islamic textile history.
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Mentioned in the Episode and Further Links

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• Corinne Mühlemann, Complex Weaves, Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks, Didymos-Verlag, 2023
• C. Mühlemann,Matthew Payne,Helen Wyld,Elizabeth A. New, "Veiled in precious cloth: a seal bag from Westminster Abbey and its connections with Charlemagne’s shrine in Aachen", The Burlington Magazine, vol. 166, no. 1461 (Dec. 2024)
• Olga Bush, Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial, Edinburgh University Press, 2018
• Avinoam Shalem, The Chasuble of Thomas Becket: A Biography, Hirmer, 2017
• Ahmad Ghabin, Hisba, Arts and Craft in Islam: 7 (Arabisch-Islamische Welt in Tradition Und Moderne), Harrassowitz, 2009
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