01 August 2010 | CARPET, TEXTILE AND ISLAMIC ART |




NEWS & VIEWS

HALI 164, SUMMER 2010


FRONTLINES




LETTERS


Comparing Saryk ensis; a correction from HALI 164 and Peter Linden’s new move  




NEWS


Islamic art anniversaries in Munich and Chicago; Gail Martin at the Tribal Art Promenade in New York; Baku’s carpet museum; Maryclaire Ramsey, the new Director of the Textile Museum




BENCHMARKS


Raoul Tschebul celebrates a west Persian jajim and Lee Chinalai reveals the art of the embroidered skirts of Hua Yao women in Southeast Asia




WORKSHOP


Yvan Maes de Wit explains his firm’s conservation treatment of the Pastrana tapestries featured in HALI 163



SPECIAL REPORT


Elena Tsareva reports from Russia on rug and Islamic art collecting



PROFILE


Joseph F. Fell and Carnig Minasian talk to Christa M. Thurman, who has recently retired as Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago after 42 years of service



FROM THE ARCHIVE


Michael Buddeberg reveals an old photograph album that contains images of rugs decorating the studios of Munich artists in the late 19th century



FORUM


Thomas Farnham delves further into the history of LACMA’s Coronation carpet




FEATURES




A STITCH IN GOOD TIME


Isabelle Denamur

‘A Story of Islamic Embroidery’ at the Kempinski Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi reveals a wealth of embroidery from the Silk Road and North Africa through pieces lent by a private European collection




SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE


Michael Buddeberg

An extract from the recently published limited edition catalogue of the outstanding collection of kilims, textiles and rugs belonging to German collector Johannes Wolff-Diepenbrock 





OUT OF THE SHADOWS


Tuscany's Textile Museum

Prato’s little known cultural treasure not only celebrates the city’s textile heritage but combines this role with an ambitious programme of cultural events and a growing textile collection




COCHINEAL RED


Tracing History Through Colour

Elena Phipps

The Cochineal Red Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York examined the cultural traditions surrounding this insect dye, here the author reveals some of its unpublished discoveries




FOR THE LOVE OF TRIBAL RUGS


The Bibler Collection

James Opie

A collection of Persian tribal rugs assembled by the author for a Montana collector now form part of the family’s collection which, along with their outstanding gardens, are open to the public




CONTEXT




EXHIBITIONS


A Cirebon batik goes on display at the Wereld Museum in Rotterdam for the first time in over twenty years; in Istanbul, Ottoman costume at the Sadberk Hanim and Russian treasures at the Topkapi; ‘Colors of the Oasis’, the Megali Collection of Central Asian ikats at the Washington TM; Ottoman embroideries in ‘Splendour of Colour, Shimmer of Silk’ at the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem; a virtual exhibition of Meisen kimonos by Marcuson & Hall; ‘Sumatra: Textiles from the Collection of Dr Thomas J. Hudack’ at the Phoenix Art Museum; Turkmens in Germany - SCATA in Leipzig and the Turkmentreffen in Hamburg; Jaff 2 at James Cohen in Milan and dealer shows to coincide with ARTS in October in San Francisco; Fair Previews: Sartirana Textile Art in Italy in September; ARTS at the Capri Motel in San Francisco in October 




CALENDAR


Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide




AUCTION PRICE GUIDE


Recent sales in Europe and the USA




BOOKS


Nancy Arthur Hoskins enthuses about Clothing the House; De Byzance À Istanbul reviewed by Michael Buddeberg, Faszination Shal assessed by Markus Voigt




PARTING SHOTS


From Leipzig, Budapest and London




FIRST VIEW


A Caucasian prototype – a flatwoven cover from the Bibler Collection







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