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Giving Back the Colours
The Josephine Powell Collection
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Published as a catalogue for the exhibition of Josephine Powell’s collection of Anatolian kilims at the Silahhane, Yildiz Palace, in 2007, part of ICOC Istanbul, featured in Cornucopia 37, this book is an essential addition to the library of kilim lovers.
Josephine Powell died a month before the exhibition opened, having bequeathed her collection to the Vehbi Koc Foundation and the Sadberk Hanım Museum. The book includes her article ‘From Generation to Generation: Anatolian Nomad Storage Sacks’. The book illustrates more than 50 flatweaves in graphic detail.
For Andrew Finkel’s profile of Josphene Powell, American Nomad, see Cornucopia 30.
Cornucopia 47 has Josephine Powell on the cover in celebration of the first exhibtion of her photographs of rural and nomadic life in Anatolia, open in summer 2012.
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