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   Winter 2023
   Issue 218

   ‘CulturalxCollabs. Weaving The Future’ sees antique and contemporary rug making unite. • A Kashmir shawl that once belonged to Queen Victoria perfectly unites the Victorian love of pattern and colour with the Kashmir master weavers’ eye for detail • A selection of books containing, or concerning, textiles, their use, circulation and creation • Cloth used in the bindings of Armenian and Ethiopian manuscripts from the 14th–20th centuries • Eight specialists discuss a ‘book’ that they consider to be exceptional • A sample book from 1787 contains precious barkcloth variations recording vanished cultures • On the fascinating, frustrating and fabulous 1905 book, T. H. Hendley’s Asian Carpets • An 18th-century volume of cloth samples tells of rivalry, espionage and fierce ambition • A foretaste of an important new exhibition opening at the University of Alberta
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   SUMMER 2023
   Issue 216

   Indian textiles from the Parpia Collection • Two newly discovered Mamluk carpets in Italy • An in-depth look at the textile masterpieces that are Navajo first-phase chief’s blankets • Textile art from the Canadian Prairies • The recycling skill of Japanese craftspeople examined via the Karun Thakar collection • The history of weaving on the Iberian Peninsula • Calligraphic batiks of Indonesia in the Sim Tan collection held in Kuala Lumpur
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   Spring 2023
   Issue 215

   Three little-known Kerman carpets from Iran • Indian chintzes, and the nuances of cross- continental trade they inspired • The transcendental imagery of prayer carpets at The Textile Museum • The story of kilim evangelist Werner Brändl • A major exhibition of Baluch tribal weavings • Turkish towels and household embroideries • The later life of Chinese rank badges

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