Welcome to my home page! I am an
associate professor at Cornell University in the Department of Textiles and Apparel.
Below you will eventually find links to pages that describe my courses, my research,
and other activities.
I teach courses in design foundations and cultural/historical aspects of textile and
apparel design. I am especially proud of a very large web site I have created as a
textbook for my foundations class TXA 125: Art
Design and Visual Thinking.
I am also curator of the Cornell Costume
and Textile collection. This link will take you to a fully searchable catalogue of
the contents of this Collection as well as a gallery of highlights
of the Collection including selected past exhibitions.
Upon request I can provide information about my other courses:
My research has centered around textiles and dress in Turkey, a country I have had ties with for all
of my adult life. I am interested in the interaction between east and west in design and dress, and
more recently, I have been particularly focused on the rapidly disappearing traditional textile
technologies of Turkey. Since Turkey is the center of a region long important in the history of
textile design and trade, I feel it is very important to document what is left before it all
disappears-as it is rapidly doing. This link will take you to my research and
a list of my publications.
Charlotte Jirousek
E-mail: caj7@cornell.edu
Department of Textiles and Apparel
319 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607/255-8064
Fax: 607/255-1093
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