About this blog

“First let me say how much I have enjoyed your blogged rug meetings.  Really fascinating and instructive.  A great service…and entry into the collector’s world.”

Peter Collingwood

“These regular morning sessions have been a continuing source of information and appreciation that needs to be retained and revitalized…Your blog is an excellent tool to broadcast these happenings to a larger audience.”

Dennis Dodds

This is a site is exclusively dedicated to the distribution of virtual versions of The Textile Museum’s free “Rug and Textile Appreciation Morning” programs to a larger audience.

These programs are necessarily held in the Myers Room, which can accommodate a maximum audience of 65.

In my view, these programs often merit a much larger audience and this blog is devoted to attempting, modestly, to enlarge it.

The posts I have made most recently are listed in the sidebar to the right of this text. Only the most recent of these virtual sessions that I have produced are visible in that listing.  Previous ones may be found by exploring the archives a little further down.

I send announcements of  each new post to a list of “ruggies” that I have.  If you receive such an announcement and think that others may enjoy these posts, please forward my announcing email.  I want, especially, to encourage ACOR representatives and those in rug and textile clubs and groups in other countries to do so.

I hope you will enjoy these virtual versions of the TM’s RTAM programs and will aid me in distributing them to the larger audience they deserve.

The Textile Museum has joined the George Washington University community.  The GWU/Textile Museum web site is located at:

http://museum.gwu.edu/

You are encouraged to join The Textile Museum at:

http://museum.gwu.edu/membership/

Regards,

R. John Howe

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