In this episode of the ART Informant, Isabelle Imbert welcomes Dr Amanda Phillips, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Material Culture at the University of Virginia. Amanda specialises in the consumption and trade of textiles in Ottoman Türkiye. It is the topic of her latest book: Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, published in 2021 (University of California Press). In the episode, they talk about the techniques and particularities of Ottoman silks, such as the so-called Studenica silk, and of course of crimson and gold-embroidered velvets made in Bursa, particularly well represented on the market, as well as academic career, book writing, and much more.

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Mentioned in the Episode and Further Links

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• Amanda Phillips, Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, University of California Press, 2021.
• Amanda Phillips, Everyday Luxury, Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600-1800, Verlag Kettler, 2018 (free access).
• Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, IPEK. The Crescent & the Rose: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, Azimuth, 2001
• Work of Pr Suraiya N. Faroqhi on Academia
• Christie’s, “Collecting guide: Ottoman silk velvet panels”, 2019
• Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, “Silks from Ottoman Turkey”, MET Museum blog, 2012
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Reproductions of Artworks discussed in the Episode (click on the images to see more information)