Ipek,the Crescent and the Rose Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets

Nurhan Atasoy, formerly Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, has been a distinguished lecturer, author and organizer of exhibitions on many aspects of the history of the arts in Turkey. Among her major projects was the organization of the international travelling exhibition The Anatolian Civilisations in 1983, and her publications include several on Ottoman miniature painting and Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey (with Julian Raby). Walter Denny is Professor of Art History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and Honorary Curator of Carpets and Textiles at the Harvard University Art Museums. He is a prolific author on Islamic art, in particular the textiles and ceramics of Ottoman Turkey. Louise W. Mackie is Curator of Textiles and Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art and formerly held curatorial posts at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and The Textile Museum, Washington, DC. She lectures and has published on many aspects of Islamic textiles. Hulya Tezcan is Curator of Textiles at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, and Assistant Professor in the Master's programme at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. She has prepared various exhibitions on the textiles and clothing of the Topkapi Palace Museum, and has written widely on Ottoman textiles, leather and fur, including a catalogue in Arabic on the textile coverings for the Kaaba in Mecca.Raby, Julian is the author of 'Ipek,the Crescent and the Rose Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets' with ISBN 9781898592198 and ISBN 1898592195.