Turkish Rugs on Tudor Walls: 16th-Century Trade between England and the Islamic World –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/turkish-rugs-on-tudor-walls-16th-century-trade-between-england-and-the-islamic-world
June 8, 2019 – February 21, 2021 | Gallery 325 | Free Exhibition Five hundred years ago, the Islamic world ruled much of North Africa, Persia, and Eastern Europe. Protestant Christian England, newly estranged from Catholic Europe, forged lucrative trade, diplomatic, and cultural relations with these Muslim global powers
, as much as the English admired the sumptuous wares, the tiny, isolated island nation
