17 May 2012 | CARPET, TEXTILE AND ISLAMIC ART |




NEWS & VIEWS

HALI 171, SPRING 2012


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







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