Cultural Heritage – Language of Dress and Role of Textiles. Tbilisi Georgia

AKF presented new research on Inter-Faith Dialogue on the Silk Road. A presentation was made at the Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies held in Tbilisi, Georgia in March, 2018 on the language of dress and the role of textiles in promoting interfaith dialogue in ancient times. Many aspects of the Silk Road  have been discussed in modern history and continue to be the subject of much interest  but interfaith dialogue through textiles remains, as yet, unexplored.  AKF has spear-headed a project on “Weaving the Interfaith Dialogue – The Language of Dress on the Silk Road” under which talks and exhibitions have been held in London, Lahore and, now, Tbilisi.