FRONTLINES
NEWS Spring at Christie’s London; news from the Textile Museum Washington DC; AOA 2012 Fair in New York; McMullan Award for Elena Tsareva; sad farewells to Edward Stott and Dennis Forde
IN MEMORIAM Remembering Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
FROM THE ARCHIVE The Bavarian National Museum’s seldom-seen 15th century Anatolian octagon-star carpet is currently on display in Munich
MASTERPIECE A Sierra Leonean strip-woven cloth, once the property of iconic French fashion designer Paul Poiret, in the MFA, Boston
FEATURES
LADAKH & ZANSKAR Tie-dyed Liktse Capes and Gonchas Dresses    Felix Elwert Two types of traditional tie-dyed woollen garments from the Indian Himalayas – the liktse capes of Zanskar and Ladakhi women’s gonchas dresses – illustrate larger similarities and differences within a broader canon of regional material culture
SAHARAN CHIC Ros Weaver The totemic jewellery worn by the women of the nomadic Tuareg tribes may be well known but the tribe’s woven mats from Mauritania are only now beginning to be appreciated
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Carpets in the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur          Steven Cohen The recent publication of Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, focuses attention on the Indian and other knotted-pile carpets from the museum’s collection
THE JAIPUR GARDEN CARPET Bruce Healy The Albert Hall Museum’s Safavid ‘garden’ carpet is shown in its entirety for the first time
RED TAPIS Thomas Murray Women’s initiation sarongs feature in tribal and courtly culture across Indonesia, but few can rival the tapis of the Paminggir of Lampung in Sumatra
ART ODYSSEY Interview by Thomas Cole Tibetan rugs and more: a voyage through the wide ranging collections of Bob and Alice Piccus
THE PAST MADE PRESENT International logistics firm Katoen Natie have opened a private museum in its Antwerp headquarters. Professor Antoine Moor, the company’s scientific advisor for textile art, introduces the collection with  the personal impressions of the museum opening from HALI’s Editor Ben Evans
CONTEXT
EXHIBITIONS exhibitions  Vrouyr at BRAFA in Brussels; David Sorgato’s silk exhibition in Milan; new permanent exhibition ‘Muslim Worlds’ at the Ethnological Museum, Berlin; ‘Patterns of Trade, Indian textiles for export, 1400-1900’ at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum; ‘Cotton: Global Threads’ at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester; the January 2012 Domotex in Hanover; Liz Lees and Bill Caskey’s annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show in San Francisco
CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide
AUCTION REPORT A review of the auction ‘Important American Schoolgirl Embroideries: The Landmark Collection of Betty Ring’ at Sotheby’s New York in January 2012
AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in Europe and the USA
BOOKS Saltillo Sarapes, A Survey: 1850-1920 reviewed by Christopher Selser; Lee A. Talbot looks at Dreams of Empire: Japanese Propaganda Textiles
PARTING SHOTS From Antwerp, Hanover, San Francisco and London
LAST PAGE A 15th century falconry tapestry panel