We welcome back Dorothy, who last shared about her research on synthetic dyes in Persian carpets in an Asian Textiles article (number 56) and at an OATG talk in 2013. This time we will hear about her current research and how the West reinvented the Ardabil as the world's greatest carpet.
Dorothy is a visiting lecturer on the Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art History of Design MA, where she teaches Material Histories of Asia. She is also writing a Ph.D. entitled 'The Relationship between the West and 'Oriental' carpets since 1840: Re-making, Re-purposing and Re-imagining'. Before she joined the Victoria and Albert Museum/ Royal College of Art, she studied Islamic Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies.