Qatar Museums to present rare Safavid textiles
Qatar Museums will host “Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran”, an exhibition featuring a selection of extraordinary textiles from its collection, on view at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) from October 23 through April 20, 2024.
The exhibition, to be displayed in MIA’s Sheikh Saoud Gallery, highlights the importance of silk in the vibrant social, economic, and artistic life of the Safavid Dynasty (1501-1736), The Peninsula wrote.
Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran was first conceived by and presented at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, and shown as part of the Qatar-USA 2021 Year of Culture.
The more than 100 works on view, drawn from MIA and Qatar Museums’ permanent collections as well as loans from the Qatar National Library, include a wide selection of artifacts, among them 20 precious brocade silk textiles and 12 carpets from the Safavid period.