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NewsEarning its Stripes
This week’s Editor’s Choice: A Tibetan tiger rug from the Rudi Molacek Collection, in which a pelt dissolves into near-abstraction, and a meditation seat carries the weight of fearlessness and spiritual protection.
Ben Evans·3 min
NewsObituary: Werner Brändl (1948-2026)
HALI's longest serving advertiser, Werner Brändl from Galerie Kelim, Würzburg, has passed away.
Markus Voigt·3 min
FeaturesHow did kashmiri shawls transform global fashion?
A special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores the luxurious splendour of Kashmiri shawls and their influence on global fashion and trade. Curator Aimée Froom, alongside Anushka Hosain and Chaeri Lee, guides us through the treasures on display.
Aimée Froom·10 min
NewsA rediscovered suzani goes on show at the V&A
Editor’s Choice is a great opportunity to publish things I come across in my work that might not merit a full essay in HALI. This suzani is a perfect example.
Ben Evans·5 min
NewsNews & Events, 9 October 2026
A weekly round-up of what is happening in the world of carpets and textiles through the lens of hali.com
Hali magazine·2 min
NewsMike Berg and the Art of the Kilim
Serra Oruç reflects on Mike Berg’s 25-year engagement with Anatolian craft, and how his exhibition 'Innocent of Theory' invites us to see the kilim beyond function—as art, memory and cultural heritage.
Serra Oruç·10 min
News
Lost Tudor tapestry returns to Oxburgh Hall
A rare Tudor tapestry, missing for more than a century, has been rediscovered and returned to Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk
Silk, Wool and Motion: An Uzbek Suzani in Doha
This week's Editor's Choice is a well-known ‘Lakai’ suzani from the former Vok collection, which features in 'Uzbekistan: Heritage in Motion', on show at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
Textile structure and design in 'With Verticals' by Anni Albers
This week in Editor’s Choice, we look at Anni Albers’ With Verticals (1946), exploring her approach to line, rhythm and structure in weaving
Features
Wedding textiles around the world
A celebratory occasion in cultures globally, marriages demand that the fanciest of textiles are brought out on parade-to impress in-laws, wedding guests and passers-by alike
An inscribed Caucasian dowry rug and its matrimonial symbolism
An inscribed and dated Caucasian dowry rug reveals its ceremonial sequence, protective symbolism and matrimonial significance. More than a domestic furnishing, it emerges as a woven record of marriage, where geometry, ritual, memory and gift-giving are intricately intertwined
Pamiri Tajik bridal veils: The history and meaning of rubands and chashmbands
Bridal face coverings are a widespread tradition across Central Asia, but those of the Pamiri Tajik people are unique. Explore the construction, symbolism and cultural significance of the ruband and chashmband, distinctive expressions of the region's rich textile heritage
Reviews
Anni Albers: Material, Mind, and Meaning
An exhibition in Austria celebrates the work of Bauhaus weaver, Anni Albers
First Faig Ahmed exhibition in Baku
Carpets by the contemporary Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed are being exhibited in his home country for the first time
Discussing the upcoming Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour
Offered by The Black Tent Project and HALI, and led by Deniz Coşkun, the ‘Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour’ is being held from 24 May–5 June 2024. Participants will be taken on a journey through weaving regions in Turkey, encountering an eclectic array of rugs and…
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The XXXIVth Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze, 2026
A rare small medallion Uşak and a well-travelled ‘bird’ Selendi rug led the carpet offering in Florence, alongside Tang tomb figures and Vittorio Zecchin’s zoomorphic mosaics. HALI Chairman Michael Franses reports.
Past and present veneration
Milan's Galleria Moshe Tabibnia has just announced that it will exhibit at Frieze Masters in London this October — prompting us to look back at HALI's last review of the gallery, originally published in HALI 214.
1000 Ways of Seeing: Diverse Art from the Stanley Seeger Collection at SLO
The peculiarly impressive collection of Stanley J. Seeger (1930 – 2011) is to be sold at Sotheby’s, London on 5 – 6 March 2014. The items and works of art span 250 million years of history.
Issue 229Autumn 2026Autumn 2026 — The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
HALI 229 offers a comprehensive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry, the embroidery currently on show in an immensely popular British Museum exhibition. Meanwhile, the Koldinghus Museum, Denmark, focuses on how woven imagery has carried different messages across the centuries.
- FeatureIssues raised by the 1976 World of Islam Festival in London, fifty years on
- FeatureA Rabat-based collector explains his fascination with curtains from his home city
- FeatureA visit to the MAK, Vienna, prompts questions about the role of a great museum
- FeatureKashmiri shawls at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts
- FeatureSilk mantles of Madagascar at Cleveland Museum of Art
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Long-form reading recommendations, auction previews, and reports from museum floors — from the HALI editorial desk.