HALI UK Tour 2014

The HALI UK Tour group spent ten days in June 2014 traveling the length of Britain. Taking in country houses and gardens, gaining behind-the-scenes access to the archives and encountering fine carpets and textiles in museums, study rooms and galleries along the way.

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Hali UK Tour group lined up along a Sanguszko vase carpet at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London



The group are invited to get up close to a Sangusko medallion hunting carpet and a garden carpet at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London



Dr Moya Carey, Curator for the Iranian Collections at the V&A and Ben Evans, HALI discuss two Cairene fragments, Egypt






Corinne Berezuk explains the structure of an embroidered panel, Azerbaijan, 1800 – 1840 to other group members, Asli Samadova, Ben Evans, Hillary Dumas, Jenny Rutherford and Moya Carey at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London



Corinne Berezuk examines the reverse of an embroidered panel, Azerbaijan, 1800 – 1840 with Edgard Hamalian, Marie Francoise Mallat, Gisela Schneider and Angela Rutherford at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London



HALI’s Ben Evans and Danny Shaffer with Colin England and a Salor chuval, 1800 – 1875 at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London






HALI’s Ben Evans and Reine Hage with Colin England and a shield carpet, Shirvan (?), 1700 – 1850 at the Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House in Olympia, London



Part of the HALI Tour group and Danny Shaffer at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford



Hillary Dumas unrolls carpet fragments from the May Beattie archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford






Colin and Lee England and Jay Jones with Turkmen carpets from the Reitlinger and Crosby collections in the Jameel study room at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford



The HALI Tour group at the shop of Christopher and Angela Legge, Oxford



Angela Rutherford and Gisela Schneider in discussion with Dr Julia Nicholson of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford with Jenny Rutherford and Gopi






HALI’s Ben Evans and Asli Samadova consider a Kazak runner with Richard Purdon at his shop in Burford, Cotswolds



Omar Sam with Richard Purdon at his shop in Burford, Cotswolds



Roger Vlitos, curator of the Faringdon Collection, guides the tour around the Four Seasons Garden at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire






Roger Vlitos, curator of the Faringdon Collection, presents 1930s murals by John Hastings at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire



The only rain of the tour at Boughton House, Northamptonshire



Behind the ropes with a late-16th-century Persian Sanguszko carpet at Boughton House, Northamptonshire






Medallion Ushak table carpet at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire



Elena Tsareva at St Edmunds Church, Warkton on the Boughton estate, Northamptonshire where the marble ‘Montagu Monuments’ are undergoing restoration



HALI Tour group ‘take the lead’ on the roof of Hardwick Hall as guests of Bess of Harwick would have done in the 17th century to access the turret rooms






Sunshine on the pink sandstone of Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland



Lucinda Willan of Christie’s with Barbara Kaslow, Gopi and Colin England at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow



Textile conservator presents tapestries to Lee England, Hillary Dumas, Christie’s Lucinda Willan, HALI’s Ben Evans and Corinne Berezuk at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow