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FYI, I'm forwarding this news I received from another list. Also FYI, you can zoom in to see image details (I tried a search for 'velvet' and found that I could zoom in to see the weave). Happy Holidays! Janine Henri Architecture, Design, and Digital Services Librarian UCLA Arts Library 1400 Public Affairs Building Box 951392 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1392 [log in to unmask] office: 310-206-4587 fax: 310-825-1303 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear all, In recent months the team of the Islamic Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has worked without rest to update the present database on our collections. Since Wednesday the entire collection - all12,335 accessioned objects - are online, searchable with brief 'tombstone' data, and about 90% of them with photos: from miscellaneuos beads to the famous Nur al-Din Room; from unglazed 7th century Sasanian pottery sherds to 20th century Moroccan jewelry. Also all other collections of the MMA are also now on the web. While our masterpieces are for the most part well known, this new tool allows a far better and faster research on the mass products of material culture, such as textiles, oil lamps, beads, archaeological household items, and all the objects that need large numbers to work with. Our section of manuscript paintings allows one to browse through all what we have. Pay our new site a visit. This database will certainly change the way we work in the future: http://bit.ly/hJ6p8v If this link does not work please go http://www.metmuseum.org, "Works of Art", "Collections Database", "Islamic Art" Best on behalf of the team of the Islamic Art Department, and Happy Holidays and a good New Year. Stefan Stefan Heidemann Associate Curator of Islamic Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028 T +1 (212) 650 2062 E [log in to unmask] W http://www.metmuseum.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~