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Carol Bier Carol Bier was Curator of Eastern Hemisphere Textiles at the Textile Museum in Washington DC. Carol is now a Research Associate at The Textile Museum and a faculty member, Maryland Institute College of Art.

• Carol Manson Bier.
• Education
  • Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
  • Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 1977 M.A.
  • Fieldwork in Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Iran.
• Position
  • Formerly Curator for Eastern Hemisphere collections at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC.
  • Formerly Editor, The Textile Museum Journal.
• Books:
  • Bier, C. The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg. 1995,
  • Bier, C. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart, Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran. Washington: Textile Museum 1987
• Articles, Lectures and Pages:
  • Bier, Carol, Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks (exhibition guide). Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 1981
  • Bier, Carol, The Legacy of Timur: A Small Rug at The Textile Museum, Ghereh (Turin, Italy), August, pp.98-100. 1996
  • Bier, Carol, Other Pile Weavings from Safavid Iran: The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg, 7. Internationale Konferenz für Orientteppiche: 7th International Conference on Oriental Carpets Hamburg/Berlin, Düsseldorf, pp.59-68. 1996
  • Bier, Carol, Islamic Textiles, c.1500 and Later, Iran, Dictionary of Art. Macmillan, London. 1996
  • Bier, Carol, Carpets and History: War, Carpets, Diplomacy and Other Affairs of State, Aramco World Magazine (May/June), pp.8-15. [Reprinted in Rug News (Summer 1989)]. 1989
  • Bier, Carol, ed. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th - 19th Centuries). The Textile Museum, Washington. 1987
  • Bier, Carol, and Jessica Sloane Two Shawls, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series, v.5, p.194. 1991
  • Carpet Condition: A Curator's Perception of "the Hole,' Textile Museum Journal, vols. 29/30, 1990-91, pp. 6-8.
  • Other Pile Weavings From Safavid Iran - The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg". Hamburg/Berlin ICOC7 1993.
  • Elements of Plane Symmetry in Oriental Carpets, Textile Museum Journal, vol. 31, 1992, pp. 53-70
  • "Symmetry and Design" Denver: ACOR4 Focus Session, 1998.
  • Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
  • The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan Publications
  • Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, l6th-l9th Centuries Edited by Carol Bier. Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1987. xvi, 336 p.A Review by Michael Craig Hillmann
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• Miscellaneous
  • Carol Bier
  • A Small Ceremonial Rug
  • Persian Textiles of the Safavid Period

• Carol Bier (in residence fall 1998) has served as curator for Eastern Hemisphere collections at the Textile Museum of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., since 1984. She is completing a book about symmetry and pattern in Oriental carpets based upon research for a Textile Museum exhibition (viewable on the Web at http://forum.swarthmore.edu/geometry/rugs/). A specialist in textile arts of the Islamic world, she is the author of The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg (1995) and editor of and contributing author to Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran (16th-19th Centuries) (1987). She teaches Islamic Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. During her residency as the Norman Freehling Visiting Professor, Bier will teach a course on "Art and Geometry: Circumscribing Patterns in Islamic Art." Institute for the Humanities names visiting fellows

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