Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # HALI HALI magazine is the leading publication in the world of antique carpets, rugs, textiles and Islamic art. Hali magazine has served the needs of dealers, collectors and art lovers for over 20 years. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://hali.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://hali.com/blog/) ## Pages - [Home](https://hali.com/) - International magazine and publishing house devoted to antique carpet and textile art since 1978 - [Privacy Policy](https://hali.com/privacy-policy/) - 1. The HALI.com is a service owned and operated by Hali Publications Ltd. We respect the privacy of visitors and users of the HALI.com website and services. This Privacy Policy explains the steps we are taking to protect your privacy. PURPOSE 2. 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Described as "the benchmark against which all other art publications measure their quality", HALI is an international quarterly magazine of exceptional style, brimming with information. It is essential reading ## In-Depth Articles - [Five rug and textile exhibitions for March](https://hali.com/articles/five-rug-and-textile-exhibitions-for-march/) - The upcoming month promises a rich lineup of rug and textile exhibitions. From must-see displays coming to a close to exciting new openings, here is our pick of five rug and textile shows to visit this March. 1. 'The Weaves of the Dragon – Chinese Carpets of the Imperial Dynasties', MITA Cultural Centre, Brescia - [A Century of Art Deco Carpets](https://hali.com/articles/a-century-of-art-deco-carpets/) - An online exhibition revisits the history of Art Deco carpets. In HALI 225, Ben Evans reviews this show hosted on Alberto Levi's gallery website, which features fifty-six carpets from his collection. 'Art Deco 1925-2025: A Century of Progressive Design’ highlights the place of these carpets in the development of modernism, revealing how tradition and innovation - [Tadek Beutlich: On and Off the Loom](https://hali.com/articles/tadek-beutlich-on-and-off-the-loom/) - The career of Polish textile artist Tadek Beutlich MBE (1922–2011) was honoured in an exhibition at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft from 18 January–22 June 2025. The artist lived in the East Sussex town of Ditchling in the late 1960s–early 1970s when he ran a weaving studio from his home, Gospels. This property had - [A Centennial Celebration: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum](https://hali.com/articles/a-centennial-celebration-the-george-washington-university-museum-and-the-textile-museum/) - It has been quite the year for the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C, as it celebrates its centennial with a rich anniversary program, which we feature in HALI 224. 'The star events of The Textile Museum’s centennial celebration are two major exhibitions featuring masterworks from the collection: ‘Intrinsic Beauty: - [HALI 224 is Out Now](https://hali.com/articles/hali-224-is-out-now/) - This new issue recognises the significance of clothing as a vehicle for expressing identity and affiliation, displaying wealth, status and political views. We look beyond the lustre and surface of the cloth to explore these layers. There are the national and religious subtexts running through Safavid figurative textiles; the influence of Sikh rule on 19th-century - [International Conference on Oriental Carpets XV](https://hali.com/articles/international-conference-on-oriental-carpets-xv/) - ICOC-XV, the 15th edition of the International Conference on Oriental Carpets, held in partnership with the Istanbul Carpet Exporters' Association (IHIB), will take place from 6–9 June 2024 at The Marmara Hotel Taksim in Istanbul. Click here to view the ICOC preview, featuring articles from the most recent issue of HALI. Academic sessions, exploring the oriental carpets of - [The HALI Colloquium in Italy: Florence, Milan, Turin and Genoa](https://hali.com/articles/the-hali-colloquium-in-italy-florence-milan-turin-and-genoa/) - HALI has organised a series of special events in Italy to precede the two-day colloquium Kerman Carpets of the Safavid Period (1501-1736) in Genoa, organised in memory of Alessandro Bruschettini, the renowned collector of Islamic art. Conceived as a celebration of the wealth of antique carpets and textiles in Italy, a week of talks, guided museum visits - [The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets](https://hali.com/articles/the-magnificent-sanguszko-carpets/) - Held in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa, 'The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets' presents the 16th-century Persian Kerman 'Sanguszko-type' carpets together for the first time. More than four hundred carpets from the Kerman region are known from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Sanguszko carpets are just one group from this region. Carpets from Kerman have been - [Kazaks Revisited](https://hali.com/articles/kazaks-revisited/) - Kazak rugs from the western Transcaucasus have long been a concentrated interest for US specialist collector/scholar Raoul Tschebull, who authored a seminal exhibition catalogue, Kazak, in 1971, and an often-cited article on Kazak design in the third issue of HALI in 1978. In this HALI article he reprises the theme, focusing on three rugs from his collection, with comment extracted from his new book, Qarajeh to Quba. - [Chinese Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum](https://hali.com/articles/chinese-carpets-in-the-va/) - As part of the continuing series of In-Depth archive articles from early issues of HALI magazine, here the King, Pinner & Franses team focus on the Chinese carpet collection in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. First published in HALI 5/2, 1982. To read the article please click here. - [Caucasian Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum](https://hali.com/articles/caucasian-carpets-in-the-victoria-albert-museum/) - During the late 1970s and early 1980s, HALI published an occasional (and still incomplete) series of articles that feature and analyse the carpet collections in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The history of the collection was written by Donald King, the then Keeper of Textiles at the museum, and the rugs were analysed by HALI's then - [Turkish Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum](https://hali.com/articles/turkish-carpets-in-the-va-by-donals-king-robert-pinner-michael-franses-1984/) - The last in the series of early HALI articles by the team of Donald King, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses on the carpets in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is an in-depth survey and detailed documentation of the museum's historical Turkish carpets and fragments. First published in HALI 6/4, 1984. To read the - [East Mediterranean Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum](https://hali.com/articles/east-mediterranean-carpets-in-the-va/) - The third of HALI's occasional series of In-Depth articles on the carpet collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, on the Mamluk, Cairene Ottoman and other classical East Mediterranean types, was published in HALI 4/1 1981. The collection is introduced by Keeper of Textiles Donald King, and the carpets are discussed and analysed by Robert - [Turkmen Rugs in the Victoria and Albert Museum](https://hali.com/articles/turkoman-rugs-in-the-victoria-albert-museum/) - The first of the extended series of In-Depth HALI magazine articles on the Oriental carpet collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, by HALI's then editors Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, with an introduction to the history of the collection by the V&A's Keeper of Textiles, Donald King, was published in HALI 2/4, 1980. To - [The Jaipur Garden Carpet](https://hali.com/articles/the-jaipur-garden-carpet/) - Three quarters of a century have passed since an early south Persian chahar bagh design carpet of unprecedented size and complexity was discovered in the Amber Palace of the Maharajas of Jaipur. Stored in the city’s Albert Hall Museum, at long last we are able to publish this extraordinary Safavid ‘garden’ carpet in its entirety for the first time. - [Elegant Structure: The Pattern of a Collection](https://hali.com/articles/elegant-structure-the-pattern-of-a-collection/) - In a lifetime of collecting, Lloyd Cotsen refined his own interests while expanding opportunities for artists and scholars. Throughout, he maintained a fascination for the way objects are constructed—and understood how a mere fragment can reveal the secrets of a complete textile. Lyssa C. Stapleton, curator of the Cotsen Collection, gives an overview of the man and his collections. - [Ming Chinese Carpets of the Forbidden City](https://hali.com/articles/ming-chinese-carpets-forbidden-city/) - Michael Franses tells the remarkable story of his 34-year quest to find the missing 16th-century classical Chinese carpets of the Chinese Imperial household. - [Beshir Prayer Rugs, supplement to HALI 181](https://hali.com/articles/beshir-prayer-rugs-reference-hali-181/) - In the light of the Marketplace report in HALI 181 (Autumn 2014), which is devoted to Middle Amu Darya region prayer rugs, we republish here Ralph Kaffel's 2007 article 'Beshir Prayer Rugs' (HALI 151, pp.74-83) as well as the online supplement 'Classification by Design', first published to accompany that article. Please click the images below to - [A Sardinian funeral rug at Sartirana 2014 ](https://hali.com/articles/sardinian-funeral-rug/) - From HALI 180 On first glance this colourful flatweave looks like a Persian kilim. But, as Alberto Boralevi reveals, it is in fact a rare Italian peasant rug, with a purpose that makes it central to important local rites For its 10th anniversary, the 2014 Sartirana Textile Show (10–14 September) will feature a special loan - [In Memoriam Ian Bennett](https://hali.com/articles/sean-scully-remembers-ian-bennett/) - The late Ian Bennett, HALI's former Chief Contributing Editor, was a complex and often troubled man of extraordinary talent, intellect, wit, and knowledge – of Oriental rugs and much, much more. Widely experienced in the London art and auction market, and latterly the carpet and textile expert at Netherhampton Auctions in Salisbury, his immense skills as a - [Paul Nels (1922-2014), interviewed in 1995](https://hali.com/articles/paul-nels-1922-2014-interviewed-in-1995/) - In 1995, to mark half a century in the rug business, the late Paul Nels was interviewed by HALI's then deputy editor Andrea Marechal. Her brief account, published in HALI 82, captures much of the spirit of a larger-than-life character who was a given on the London antique carpet scene for so many decades. - [The Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta: Reviewed by Andrew Hale ](https://hali.com/articles/an-in-depth-article/) - The unabridged review by Andy Hale of David and Sue Richardson's The Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta, published by Prestel. The abridged version appeared in HALI 175 - [From HALI 175, When horses wore silk & gold by Barbara Karl](https://hali.com/articles/from-hali-175-when-horses-wore-silk-gold-by-barbara-karl/) - The full article from the MAK curator, Barbara Karl, including footnotes and bibliography. - [Marino Dall'Oglio for HALI Magazine](https://hali.com/articles/dalloglio-for-hali-magazine/) - In memory of the noted Oriental carpet collector, Dr Marino Dall'Oglio of Milan, who passed away peacefully on Thursday, 21st November 2013, we publish here five articles written by him. The first, on 'White Ground Anatolian Carpets' was first given as a paper to the 1983 London ICOC, and was published in 1986 in Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies II: - [The Qaraqalpaq Dialectic: Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta: The Right to Reply](https://hali.com/articles/the-qaraqalpaq-dialectic-qaraqalpaqs-of-the-aral-delta-the-authors-response/) - In HALI 175 (Spring 2013, pp.124-127), Andrew Hale reviewed David and Sue Richardson’s ‘encyclopaedic’ new book, Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta. The full version of his review was published on this site. Here the Richardsons address what they consider to be serious flaws in the reviewer's assessment. An abridged version of this detailed rebuttal appears in - [A Carbon-14 Primer by Christine Prior](https://hali.com/articles/a-carbon-14-primer/) - Carbon-14 dating has become the subject of intense debate in the antiques world – but how many people really know how it works or what it can and cannot determine? Dr Christine Prior of the Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory offers a concise guide - [Iberian & East Mediterranean Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, by Michael Franses](https://hali.com/articles/iberian-east-mediterranean-carpets-in-the-museum-of-islamic-art-doha/) - To date, the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage of the Emirate of Qatar has acquired five historical Spanish carpets and eight from Egypt and Syria for the new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. It is these that are the focus of the second in our series of in-depth surveys of the MIAQ collection by Michael Franses. An abridged version of this article, without references or citations, appears in HALI 157, Autumn 2008. - [Ashtapada - An Indian Silk Carpet In The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, by Michael Franses](https://hali.com/articles/ashtapada-an-indian-silk-carpet-in-the-museum-of-islamic-art-doha/) - The oldest securely dated complete silk pile carpet from the Muslim world, now in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, is particularly significant in the history of oriental carpets. Its synthesis of patterns casts light on the extensive trade and cultural links across Asia and the Mediterranean region between 1350 and 1450 that enabled - [Safavid Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, by Michael Franses](https://hali.com/articles/safavid-carpets-in-the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/) - Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, capital of the oil-and gas-rich Gulf State, opened its doors to the public on 22 November 2008. In this, the first of an occasional series of articles on highlights of the collection, we concentrate on the group of Safavid Persian carpets acquired by the MIAQ over the course of the past decade from private collections and at public auction. This article by Michael Franses is an extended version, with citations and references as well as additional images, of the abridgement published in HALI 155, Spring 2008, pp.72-89. - [Lyon - Splendours in the City of Silk: 1. Textiles, by Georgina Adam](https://hali.com/articles/lyon-splendours-in-the-city-of-silk-1-textiles/) - In the mid 1980s HALI published a series of four articles on the textiles and carpets in the collection of the Musée Historique des Tissus (MHT) in Lyons, France. The first article, by Georgina Adam, in HALI 32, focused on a select handful of the historical textiles in Lyon, the following three, by Ian Bennett, - [Caucasian 'Shield' Carpets by Michael Franses and Robert Pinner, 1978](https://hali.com/articles/caucasian-shield-carpets-by-michael-franses-and-robert-pinner-1978/) - Caucasian Shield Carpets' by Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, published in 1978 in the inaugural issue of HALI magazine, remains to this day the definitive study of these 17th and 18th century carpets with variants of the classical shield palmette design. - [Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 2: Ten Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett ](https://hali.com/articles/lyon-splendours-in-the-city-of-silk-2-ten-safavid-carpet-masterpieces-by-ian-bennett/) - In the first of his three in-depth articles on the extraordinary carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France, published in HALI 33 (1987) Ian Bennett discusses ten 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia, with additional comment extracted from the writings of the late Kurt Erdmann. To read 'Ten - [Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 4: The remaining Classical Carpets, by Ian Bennett](https://hali.com/articles/lyon-splendours-in-the-city-of-silk-4-the-remaining-classical-carpets-by-ian-bennett/) - The third of Ian Bennett’s in-depth articles on the Oriental carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 35 (1987). The article features the non-Persian holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets - from Spain, Egypt, Turkey, India, East Turkestan and China. To read 'The Remaining Classical - [Lyon, Splendours in the City of Silk. 3: The Safavid [Carpet] Masterpieces, by Ian Bennett](https://hali.com/articles/lyon-splendours-in-the-city-of-silk-3-the-safavid-carpet-masterpieces-by-ian-bennett/) - The second of Ian Bennett's in-depth articles on the carpet collection at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon, France was published in HALI 34 (1987). In he discusses the remaining holdings of 16th and 17th century classical carpets from Safavid Persia at the MHT, with additional comment extracted from the writings of the late - [Imperial Puzzle: Sixteenth-Century Persian Spiral-Vine Carpets with Animals, by Christine Klose](https://hali.com/articles/imperial-puzzle-sixteenth-century-persian-spiral-vine-carpets-with-animals/) - Made possible by careful research and persistent 'detective' work, tThe late Dr Christine Klose's reconstruction of the extent of a highly regarded design type of early Safavid ‘Hunting’ carpets through a comparative survey of known carpets and carpet fragments. ## Auctions - [Highlights from London’s Islamic & Indian Art Auctions](https://hali.com/auctions/highlights-from-londons-islamic-indian-art-auctions/) - It was a busy week in London last week, as the spring sales of Islamic and Indian art delivered strong results across the board. The HALI team had the opportunity to preview the lots ahead of the auctions. Among the highlights were a rare 16th-century Cairene Ottoman rug that soared past expectations at Sotheby’s, and - [The Pip Rau Collection at Olympia Auctions](https://hali.com/auctions/the-pip-rau-collection-at-olympia-auctions/) - The Pip Rau collection of ikats, embroideries and costumes, auctioned at Olympia in London from 3 February–1 March, achieved outstanding results, attracting strong interest both locally and globally. Comprising 191 lots, this sale was dedicated to the late dealer and collector of Asian textiles, Pip Rau (1938–2024). When Rau opened her small Islington - [Kashmir Shawls: Issues in Style and Chronology](https://hali.com/auctions/kashmir-shawls-issues-in-style-and-chronology/) - An extended article by Jeffrey B. Spurr from the Marketplace section of HALI 203: a special edition devoted to Indian carpets and textiles. - [Sale Highlights from Sotheby's Rugs and Carpets](https://hali.com/auctions/rugs-and-carpets-sale-highlights/) - HALI's Executive Editor, Daniel Shaffer, reviews the results of Sotheby’s ‘Rugs and Carpets including Distinguished Collections’ sale on 23 April 2018 in London. - [Bonhams Islamic Week Textiles, 23 October 2017](https://hali.com/auctions/bonhams-islamic-week-textiles-23-october-2017/) - Over the years, Bonhams' twice-yearly auctions of Islamic and Indian Art in London have been a steady, if not prolific, source of good antique textiles. This autumn's sale on Monday 23 October is no exception, with a number of interesting examples on offer at competitive prices. There is an 8th century Sogdian samite fragment (£8,000-12,000), as well as - [Wannenes Rug Highlights](https://hali.com/auctions/wannenes-highlights/) - A quick look through many specialist rug auction catalogues creates an immediate impression of the sale: whether it is worth looking through in greater detail. One can quickly form an impression of what the expert is like and their interests, whether there is anything fresh and exciting and whether the sale simply a trade clearing - [Opulent Farewell to Carpets at CNY](https://hali.com/auctions/opulent-farewell-carpets-cny/) - 'Opulence', at Christie's New York on Thursday 13th April 2017 has a strong focus on 19th century furniture and decorative arts, including 34 rugs and carpets. These are the last such rugs and carpets to be seen for sale at Rockefeller Center, at least for the foreseeable future, as Christie’s have decided that they will no longer offer carpets - [Rippon Boswell December Auction](https://hali.com/auctions/rippon/) - The December auction (3 December 2016) of collector's carpets at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden is one of the most interesting sales in recent months. It is a well-balanced sale including many rugs consigned from the estates of collectors, with the proceeds from certain consignments going to charity. The estimates are generally very low and should allow - [Nazmiyal Collection at Bonhams, NY](https://hali.com/auctions/nazmiyal-collection-bonhams-ny/) - 'An Exemplary Decorative Antique and Vintage Carpet Collection by Nazmiyal' on 4 April 2016 was the first carpet auction of any substance at Bonhams in New York in our memory. The selection was broad, with pile and flatwoven carpets both Oriental and European in origin and ranging in date from the late 16th century to the late 20th century. - [The Bernheimer Chair Sold at Sotheby’s, London](https://hali.com/auctions/the-bernheimer-chair-sold-at-sothebys-london/) - Consul Otto Bernheimer’s famous chair, an Italian Renaissance-style walnut armchair upholstered with parts of a 16th-century small-pattern Holbein carpet, sold in Sotheby’s London’s evening sale on 24 November 2015, lot 13, for £100,000 ($151,460), at the top of its estimate range. The upholstery of ‘Holbein variant’ carpet fragments with large-pattern motifs in a small-pattern format - [Henry’s, Mutterstadt, 7 November 2015](https://hali.com/auctions/henrys-mutterstadt-7-november-2015/) - Over the last couple of years, Henry’s auctioneers in the ancient German Rhineland city of Mutterstadt have emerged as enthusiastic international purveyors of traditional old and antique oriental carpets. Their sixth sale comprises pile rugs, kilims and sumakhs from most of the major carpet weaving areas, as well as Scandinavian folk textiles, many of them unpublished and from private collections. - [Nagel’s 40th Anniversary and other September Rug Sales ](https://hali.com/auctions/nagels-40th-anniversary-and-other-september-rug-sales/) - The European rug auction scene, after its long summer break, gets back in the swing of things. - [Hammersmith carpet falls short of its own record](https://hali.com/auctions/hammersmith-carpet-falls-short-of-its-own-record/) - This handsome Morris & Co 'Hammersmith' Carpet, designed by J.H. Dearle around the time of William Morris's death in the mid-1890s, failed to beat its own world record price for a Morris & Co carpet, including those designed by the master himself. Once the property of the Barr-Smith family in Adelaide, Australia, as Lot 1041 in Sotheby's - [Rug and Textile Results from Christie's and Bonhams, London April 2015](https://hali.com/auctions/rug-and-textile-results-from-christies-and-bonhams-london-april-2015/) - Results from Christie's and Bonham's from day one of Islamic Art Week London, 21 April 2015 - [Rugs & Carpets at Nagel](https://hali.com/auctions/rugs-carpets-at-nagel/) - The star piece of the upcoming Rugs & Carpets, Ethnographic Art sale at Nagel in Stuttgart on 24 March is lot 25, a Tekke animal tree asmalyk. From the collection of former Stuttgart district Court councillor Burkhardt, it is a new discovery, becoming one of only 14 known examples of this type. An Ushak Lotto - [Of Royal and Noble Descent, Sotheby's London, 24 February](https://hali.com/auctions/royal-noble-descent-sothebys-london-24-february/) - Among the wide range of consignments, including paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, jewellery, objets d’art, and luxury curiosities, 'all descending from or with a strong connection to royal and aristocratic European collections', to be offered in Sotheby's 'Of Royal and Noble Descent' sale on 24 February 2015 is a small group of oriental and European carpets. - [Sotheby’s NY Masterworks 11 December 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/sothebys-ny-masterworks-11-december-2014/) - This year’s offering will feature two significant textiles, a rare and important 16th century Renaissance historical tapestry, The Field of the Cloth of Gold and an equally rare mid 17th century Savonnerie carpet. - [Native American Textiles at Bonhams, San Francisco](https://hali.com/auctions/native-american-textiles-bonhams-san-francisco/) - The sale of Native American Art at Bonhams, San Francisco on 8 December 2014 consists of almost 400 lots, a large proportion of these being textiles. Several of which are significant pieces with generous estimates. - [The generation game at Rippon Boswell](https://hali.com/auctions/generation-game-rippon-boswell/) - Rippon Boswell’s major autumn sale in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 29th November 2014 includes more than 260 lots of selected antique carpets, rugs, flatweaves, tapestries, embroideries and other textiles, as well as rare books. - [The Opulent Eye auction, Christie's New York,18 November 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/christies-opulent-eye-new-york-18-november/) - On 18 November 2014, Christie’s New York will hold 'The Opulent Eye' sale of 19th century furniture, sculpture, works of art, ceramics, glass and carpets. There will be around 70 carpets amongst the 332 auction lots. Highlights include a striking east Anatolian rug with a large ivory central medallion outlined in hook motifs. Consigned by a - [Bonhams African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, New York](https://hali.com/auctions/african-oceanic-pre-columbian-art-bonhams-new-york/) - Bonhams are to hold a sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art in New York, 12 November 2014. - [Dragons Galore at Sotheby's New York](https://hali.com/auctions/dragons-galore-sothebys-new-york/) - In New York tomorrow, 22 October, Sotheby’s sale of ‘Important English and European [sic] Decorative Arts', the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are ‘deacquisitioning’ four late classical oriental carpet fragments – two Caucasian and two Chinese. - [The London autumn 2014 carpet and textile sales](https://hali.com/auctions/london-autumn-2014-carpet-textile-sales/) - There was a distinctly autumnal feel about the recent London sales season, at least as far as antique rugs and textiles were concerned. Although the main action, at Christie’s King Street on Tuesday 7th October 2014, yielded £1,513,375 ($2,435,020), representing 59% sold by lot and 69% by value, the auction took place in a saleroom - [Rugs and textiles in Sotheby's London Islamic sale](https://hali.com/auctions/textiles-rugs-sothebys-london-islamic-sale/) - In short, very few, and certainly the smallest rug and carpet consignment in memory. That said, there is a small medallion Ushak rug consigned by 'a German Lady, a Yomut white ground 'tree' asmalyk from a French collection, and the second Tekke embroidered asmalyk in the London sales. But plenty in other mediums, see Sotheby's - [Textiles at Christie's London, October 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/christies-islamic-art-textile-sales-october-2014/) - In addition to Christie's Oriental Carpets sale on 7 October 2014, some fine Eastern textiles will be offered in their Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale on Thursday 9 October at the King Street sale room (viewing 3-8 October) and in the Art & Textiles of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on Friday 10 October at South - [Skinner presents Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction in Boston](https://hali.com/auctions/skinner-presents-fine-oriental-rugs-carpets-auction-boston/) - Skinner's annual fall auction of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets will be held in Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, September 28, 2014 at 2 PM. - [Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries auction at Dorotheum Vienna](https://hali.com/auctions/oriental-carpets-textiles-tapestries-auction-dorotheum-vienna/) - Dorotheum Vienna presents Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries on Tuesday 16 September 2014, with viewing from 11-16 September. - [Collection Frum at Sotheby’s, Paris](https://hali.com/auctions/collection-frum-sothebys-paris/) - The Frum Collection- one of the most significant groups of Oceanic art to come on the market for the last 30 years is to be sold at Sotheby’s, Paris on 16 September 2014 - [Nagel Stuttgart, Rugs, Carpets & Ethnographic Art, 9 September 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/nagel-stuttgart-rugs-carpets-ethnographic-art-9-september-2014/) - Nagel kicks off the Autumn rug season with a hefty sale of 369 lots with a variety of consignments from rugs and textiles, antiques and tribal art and the Islamic pottery collection F. J. Amon. - [Arts of India, including textiles, Christie's South Kensington, 12 June](https://hali.com/auctions/arts-india-including-textiles-christies-south-kensington-12-june/) - CSK's summer Arts of India sale on 12 June 2104 includes several dozen Indian and southeast Asian textiles, including antique painted and block printed cotton chintz palampores, export chintzes, embroideries, painted temple cloths and a range of Kashmiri, Persian and European shawls, as well as Indonesian batiks. - [Christie's NY, Connoisseur's Eye, 20 May 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/christies-ny-connoisseurs-eye-20-may-2014/) - Christie's 'Connoisseur's Eye' sale at Rockefeller Center in New York on 20 May 2014 includes a selection of 66 Oriental carpets, mainly larger size high quality Persian decoratives, but with a sprinkling of collectables, fine silks and worn but still beautiful classical carpets. Many of the carpets come from private collections, including the those of Dustin Hoffman, - [Henry's Mutterstadt, Collector Carpets Auction, 1 June 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/henrys-mutterstadt-collector-carpets-auction-1-june-2014/) - Henry's auctioneers in Mutterstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of southwestern Germany will hold a special sale of 'Collector's Carpets' on the 1st of June. By no means a household name on the oriental carpet circuit, this 200-lot sale includes several very good antique carpets, most notably lot 7057, a superb 18th century Yarkand wool carpet - [Arts of the American West at Sotheby's, New York](https://hali.com/auctions/arts-of-the-american-west-at-sothebys-new-york/) - The annual auction of Arts of the American West is happening at Sotheby’s, New York on 21 May 2014. - [March Carpet Auctions, Sold Highlights from Vienna, Stuttgart and Marseilles](https://hali.com/auctions/march-carpet-auctions-sold-highlights-from-vienna-stuttgart-and-marseilles/) - Among the European auction houses with 2014 spring season sales including rugs and textiles were Udo Langauer’s Austria Auction Company’s ‘Fine Antique Oriental Rugs I’, Nagel ‘Collector Carpets and Ethnologia’ and Leclere Auctions in the city of Marseilles. - [Christie's London Islamic & Indian Art and Textile sales, April 2014 ](https://hali.com/auctions/christies-islamic-art-sales/) - Christie's Islamic Art Week returns next week, alongside a hefty rug sale are two more Islamic art sales taking place on 10 & 11 April 2014. - [Islamic, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art at 25 Blythe Road](https://hali.com/auctions/islamic-indian-himalayan-and-south-east-asian-art-at-25-blythe-road/) - Approximately 320 lots will be included inArthur Millner’s forthcoming online auction from 7 - 10 April 2014 at 25 Blythe Road. - [Early Central Asian flatweave fragment sells at Netherhampton Auctions](https://hali.com/auctions/flatweave-fragment-from-pazyryk-sells-at-netherhampton-auctions/) - The late Ian Bennett’s swansong as a carpet cataloguer at Netherhampton Auctions was this enigmatic but evidently very old fragment of Asian woollen flatweave, with animal-style iconography akin to that associated with early Steppe art. - [Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World](https://hali.com/auctions/sothebys-arts-of-the-islamic-world/) - Sotheby's sale of Arts of the Islamic World on 9 April 2014, will offer a variety of pieces originating from lands under Islamic patronage over 1400 years. - [The Orientalist Sale at Sotheby's London](https://hali.com/auctions/the-orientalist-sale-at-sothebys-london/) - This year's Orientalist sale will take place during Islamic Art Week at Sotheby's on 8 April 2014, with viewing taking place 4 - 8 April - [Skinner Boston's first carpet auction with Lawrence Kearney, 22 March 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/skinner-bostons-first-auction-with-lawrence-kearney/) - Skinner, Boston, will present Lawrence Kearney’s first sale as Director of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets, featuring a curated selection of fine carpets, antique textiles and Central Asian embroideries. - [Textile Auction at Kerry Taylor London](https://hali.com/auctions/textile-auction-at-kerry-taylor-london/) - Many of you will already know Kerry Taylor’s London-based auction house for its expertise in antique and vintage fashion, for which the company is renowned worldwide. Since the ex-Sotheby’s auctioneer started the firm in 2003 each sale has contained a relatively small section of quality textiles, alongside the amazing array of couture-wear. However, the upcoming - [Fine Persian town rugs in Copenhagen at Bruun Rasmussen’s February 2014 sale](https://hali.com/auctions/fine-persian-town-rugs-in-copenhagen-at-bruun-rasmussens-february-2014-sale/) - Copenhagen art auctioneers Bruun Rasmussen’s first international sale of the year on 26 February 2014 included a good selection of fine 20th century Persian workshop pieces. - [Medieval Swiss tapestry sells for over £1million](https://hali.com/auctions/north-rhine-tapestry-sells-for-over-1mil/) - A medieval North Rhine tapestry dramatically surpassed its £40,000–£60,000 estimate, selling for over £1.2 million at Sotheby’s Arts of Europe sale, London, 3 December 2013. - [Dorotheum Rug & Textile auction, 25 February 2014](https://hali.com/auctions/dorotheum-rug-textile-auction-25-february-2014/) - The auction 'Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries' at Vienna's Palais Dorotheum on 25 February 2014 (4pm) offers a selection of pieces from many different countries. - [1000 Ways of Seeing: Diverse Art from the Stanley Seeger Collection at SLO](https://hali.com/auctions/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. - [Grogan & Co February Auction](https://hali.com/auctions/grogan-co-february-auction/) - As part of their February Auction, Massachusetts-based antique auctioneers Grogan & Company will be offering 77 lots of rugs, carpets and textiles. - [D’Elsa Schiaparelli Collection sold at Christie’s, Paris](https://hali.com/auctions/delsa-schiaparelli-collection-sold-at-christies-paris/) - The personal collection of D’Elsa Schiaparelli, entrusted to Christie’s by her granddaughter Marisa Berenson, was sold at their Paris saleroom on 23 January 2014, achieving a total of €1,683,750. - [Art of the South Seas at Bonhams, San Francisco](https://hali.com/auctions/art-of-the-south-seas-at-bonhams-san-francisco/) - Bonhams Art of the South Seas auction in San Francisco on Sunday 9 February 2014 features an array of masks, shields, clubs, paddles and other South Seas artefacts. Amongst them, an incredible headband from Papua New Guinea constructed from multiple exoskeletons of the native Flower Beetle and woven plaited orchid stem, some decorated tapa bark-cloths, - [World record for African figure seals a good year for African and Oceanic Art at Sotheby’s, Paris](https://hali.com/auctions/world-record-for-african-figure-seals-a-good-year-for-african-and-oceanic-art-at-sothebys-paris/) - Sotheby’s Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie sale in Paris on 11 December 2013 confirmed the saleroom's position as the past year’s top venue for African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art. - [Some antique carpet and textile highlights at Rippon Boswell's 30 November 2013 auction ](https://hali.com/auctions/antique-carpet-and-textile-highlights-at-rippon-boswells-autumn-auction/) - The Friday afternoon viewing on 29 November 2013 was rather less well-attended than for past sales, but by the opening of the auction on the afternoon of Saturday 30th November, Rippon Boswell's Friedrichstrasse saleroom in Wiesbaden was reasonably full. Our impression, confirmed by auctioneer Detlef Maltzahn, was that bidding in the room was stronger than at - [Joan Miró Aubusson tapestry sells online for €200,000 +](https://hali.com/auctions/joan-miro-tapestry-sells-for-over-e200000/) - A Joan Miró tapestry, Personnages Rythmiques, sold for €204,000 ($280,800) on 29 November 2013 at the Auctionata Fine Art Auction, Berlin, setting a new world record for a tapestry sold online. - [Ottoman velvet smashes £100 estimate to fetch £46,800 in Sussex Auction](https://hali.com/auctions/ottoman-velvet-panel-smashes-90-estimate/) - An Ottoman velvet panel with an estimate of £70–£90 sold for £39,000 (hammer price) at Bellmans, West Sussex on 6 December in its Antiques and Interiors sale. - [Arthur Millner's online auction achieves high prices](https://hali.com/auctions/arthur-millners-online-auction-achieves-high-prices/) - Arthur Millner, of 25 Blythe Road, concluded his second online auction on 7 November 2013, with some very strong results, particularly among the Himalayan bronzes and paintings, as well as Indian miniatures.The total sold was £184,879 (including premium at 20%). - [25 Blythe Road: Islamic, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art](https://hali.com/auctions/islamic-indian-himalayan-and-south-east-asian-works-of-art/) - 25 Blythe Road’s next Islamic, Indian, Himalayan and South East Asian Works of Art online-only auction, run by Arthur Millner, will include a variety of Indian art and Buddhist Himalayan treasures, from 3 - 7 November 2013. - [Van Ham Cologne, Rugs & Tapestries auction, 30 October](https://hali.com/auctions/van-ham-cologne-rugs-tapestries-auction-30-october/) - Van Ham's auction of Rugs and Tapestries in Cologne, Germany, on 30 October 2013, will be open for bidding online. The preview will be from 26 - 29 October. The sale includes a large selection of reasonably priced rugs and carpets at a venue which has been a happy hunting ground in the past for dealers - [Ancient Egyptian and Islamic Art online at Auctionata](https://hali.com/auctions/ancient-egyptian-and-islamic-art-online-at-auctionata/) - Auctionata will be conducting an online auction of "Ancient Egyptian and Islamic Art from two important Collections", on Friday 1 November 2013. - [Koller Zürich Autumn carpet auction, 19 September 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/koller-zurich-autumn-carpet-auction-19-september-2013/) - Among the 120 diverse lots in Koller's carpet sale in Zurich on 19 September 2013 are a number of attractive and interesting tribal and village rugs, not all in prime condition, but generally at enticingly low estimates, as well as a dramatic Uzbek suzani. - [Webb's New Zealand: Art of Africa, Oceania (and the Americas), 14 September 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/webbs-new-zealand-to-sell-african-and-oceanic-art/) - Webb's auction house, Auckland, are to sell a diverse range of tribal and oceanic art, taking place Saturday 14 September, 2013 including an array of items from the cultures of Africa, Australia and the Americas. - [Bonhams Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale in Los Angeles and San Francisco, 29 July 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/bonhams-oriental-rugs-and-carpets-in-los-angeles-and-san-francisco-29-july-2013/) - Alone among the major international auction houses, Bonhams still has dedicated North American sales of Oriental rugs and carpets, mainly in their West Coast salerooms, but also occasionally in New York. We show a selection of lots that will be offered simultaneously in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Monday 29 July 2013. - [Auction of antique Asian textiles in Utrecht ](https://hali.com/auctions/peerdeman-utrecht-indonesian-and-asian-textiles-22-june-2013/) - The Dutch auction house Peerdeman’s special sale of Indonesian and Asian Textiles from a private European collection was held in their rooms at Mississippidreef 17, in the city of Utrecht, on Saturday 22 June with plenty of international trade in attendance. - [The Thyssen Mughal Hunting Carpet at Sotheby's](https://hali.com/auctions/for-the-record-the-yerkesremarquethyssen-mughal-hunting-carpet/) - This mid-17th century North Indian Mughal carpet, until recently furnishing the Swiss home of the late Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, London, on 3 July 2013 (lot 23) for £314,000, approximately three times its lower estimate. - [Classical Carpets from the William A. Clark Collection at Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/classical-carpets-from-the-william-a-clark-collection-at-sothebys-new-york-5-june-2013/) - Potentially the greatest carpet auction in living memory, 25 classical 16th and 17th century carpets from the collection of the 'Copper King' are being sold at Sotheby's in New York on 5 June 2013 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC to benefit future acquisitions. - [For the Record. Rippon Boswell's Lakai suzani](https://hali.com/auctions/foir-the-record-rippon-boswells-lakai-suzani/) - A new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description was paid for on 25 May 2013 for the catalogue cover piece in Rippon Boswell's spring sale, lot 197, a large, densely intricate, blazingly colourful mandala-like ‘Lakai’ silk on silk embroidery from an old German collection - [Treasures, Princely Taste: Sotheby's London, 3 July](https://hali.com/auctions/treasures-princely-taste-sothebys-london-3-july/) - With just 49 high value objects dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century, Treasures 2013 at Sotheby's in New Bond Street on 3 July presents an mix of furniture and decorative art. All augmented by royal, noble or historic provenances, the sale promises 'a rich diversity in style and age.' - [For the Record: The Bacri-Clark Kerman Sickle Leaf Throne Carpet](https://hali.com/auctions/for-the-record-the-bacri-clark-kerman-sickle-leaf-throne-carpet/) - Michael Franses asks whether the Bacri-Clark throne carpet will be remembered for a world-record price ‒ US $33,765,000 ‒ or judged by the glowing words written about it each of the many times it has been exhibited? - [Maori Feather Cloaks at Auction](https://hali.com/auctions/maori-feather-cloaks-at-auction/) - On 26 March 2013, a rare 19th century Maori kahu kiwi feather cloak was sold by the New Zealand auctioneers Webb’s in Auckland for NZ$46,000. - [Sotheby's NY: Arts of the American West ](https://hali.com/auctions/sothebys-ny-arts-of-the-american-west/) - Sotheby’s 22 May auction of the Arts of the American West realised almost $4 million. This was the first Sotheby’s sale to bring together the best examples of American Indian artistic traditions as well as Western paintings and works on paper spanning 2,000 years of cultural and aesthetic traditions. - [More eye candy at Rippon Boswell, 25 May](https://hali.com/auctions/more-eye-candy-at-rippon-boswell-25-may/) - Rippon Boswell's Spring sale of antique carpets and textiles in Wiesbaden on Saturday, 25 May 2013, contains a typically well presented array of fine collectables from the carpet belt of Eurasia and beyond. - [When is a Talish not a Talish? HALI 175, Auction Price Guide Erratum](https://hali.com/auctions/when-is-a-talish-not-a-talish-hali-175-auction-price-guide-erratum/) - In HALI 175, on page 136, the image of a yellow-ground Northeast Caucasian prayer rug, sold at Grogan's in Dedham in January 2013, mistakenly accompanies the details and comment for an unusual Talish prayer rug sold by Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden in November 2012. Here are both rugs with the correct captions and comments. - [Wannenes Genoa, Antique Carpets & Textiles, 29 May 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/wannenes-genoa-antique-carpets-textiles-29-may-2013/) - Wannenes in Genoa, Italy, has emerged over the past few years as a welcome player in the international antique carpet and textile auction market and Wannenes now hold regular specialist sales. A few of the possible highlights of their next Genoa sale, on 29 May 2013, are shown here. - [Freeman's Philadelphia, Oriental Rugs, 22 May](https://hali.com/auctions/freemans-philadelphia-oriental-rugs-22-may/) - Freeman's sale in Philadelphia of Oriental Rugs, Carpets and Textiles on 22 May 2013 includes a small group of good 19th century Caucasian rugs and kilims. - [Then and Now – Two Caucasian Rugs at Sotheby’s](https://hali.com/auctions/then-and-now-two-caucasian-rugs-at-sothebys/) - A look at the changing fortunes of two 19th century Caucasian rugs at auction over the decades on both sides of the Atlantic - [Rugs at the Dorotheum, Linz and Vienna, May Sales](https://hali.com/auctions/rugs-at-the-dorotheum-linz-and-vienna-may-sales/) - The Dorotheum in Vienna, one of the oldest of Europe's leading auction rooms, holds regular Spring and Autumn sales of Oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries under the expertise of Wolfgang Matschek, and carpets are also included in less specialised sales both in Vienna and in the company's provincial salerooms in cities such as Linz. This Spring, a Linz sale on 16 May 2013 includes a small group of rugs, while Herr Matschek's main sale at the Palais Dorotheum on Monday 27 May, offers more than 200 lots. - [SKINNER'S SALE IN BOSTON, 11 MAY 2013 ](https://hali.com/auctions/skinners-sale-in-boston/) - Skinner's antique rug sale on 11 May in downtown Boston has several highlights that deserve attention from international collectors and dealers. - [Superb Suzani Embroideries: Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 25 May](https://hali.com/auctions/superb-suzani-embroideries-rippon-boswell-wiesbaden-25-may/) - Rippon Boswell's major Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 25 May 2013 will include a very strong group of 13 Uzbek and Tajik suzani embroideries, several of which are consigned from a German private collection of long standing. The images speak for themselves - [London’s Spring Islamic and Asian Art Sales, April 2013](https://hali.com/auctions/londons-spring-islamic-and-asian-art-sales-april-2013/) - The regular Spring and Autumn Islamic and Asian week auctions in London see tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars’ worth of goods on offer across the full range of traditional mediums and materials, as well as 19th and 20th century paintings and contemporary works of art. - [Andy Williams – More than just a pretty voice](https://hali.com/auctions/andy-williams-more-than-just-a-pretty-voice/) - The Andy Williams Collection of Navajo Blankets is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in New York on 21 May 2013. ## Tours - [Discussing the upcoming Decorative Arts of Iberia HALI tour](https://hali.com/tours/discussing-the-upcoming-decorative-arts-of-iberia-hali-tour/) - Taking place from 8–20 April in association with Martin Randall Travel, the Decorative Arts of Iberia HALI Tour is drawing ever closer! The most recent episode of the Hali Publications 'Following the Thread' podcast features a shortened version of HALI Tour manager Rachel Meek's interview with the art historian and HALI Tour lecturer, Gijs van - [Discussing the upcoming Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour](https://hali.com/tours/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 textiles in Istanbul, Bursa, Bergama, İzmir, Tire-Birgi, - [The Black Tent Project and HALI: Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour](https://hali.com/tours/the-black-tent-project-and-hali-greater-anatolia-rug-and-textile-study-tour/) - The Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour, offered by The Black Tent Project and HALI, is being held from 23 May–5 June 2024. Participants will be taken on a journey through weaving regions in Turkey, encountering an eclectic array of rugs and textiles in Istanbul, Bursa, Bergama, İzmir, Tire-Birgi, Ankara, Cappadocia, Sultanhanı and Konya. - [Decorative Arts of Iberia, April 2024](https://hali.com/tours/decorative-arts-of-iberia-april-2024/) - The Decorative Arts of Iberia HALI Tour in association with Martin Randall Travel takes place 8–20 April 2024. The 13-day cultural tour offers expert guidance and exclusive access to some of the most beautiful and important art, carpets, textiles and architecture in Spain and Portugal. Read more by scrolling down and view the programme here. - [Morocco, May 2017](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-morocco-may-2017/) - The first HALI Tour to Morocco took place, 5-14 May 2017. A group of twenty rug and textile dealers and enthusiasts from the UK, Australia and the USA were led by Wilfried Stanzer and accompanied by HALI Editor, Ben Evans and Assistant Editor, Rachel Meek. - [Brochure: Carpets & Textiles of Morocco, September-October 2019](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-carpets-textiles-of-morocco-september-october-2019/) - HALI is thrilled to be returning to Morocco, 28 September - 7 October 2019 with a second HALI Tour, to view little-seen textiles in inspired private collections. - [HALI Tour](https://hali.com/tours/hali-tour/) - Exclusive tours to areas of textile interest - [Brochure: Textile Collections in Russia, 29 May - 6 June 2020](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-textile-collections-in-russia-29-may-6-june-2020/) - Due to COVID-19, the HALI Tour 'Textile Collections in Russia' has been postponed until 18-26 September 2020. - [HALI Tours](https://hali.com/tours/hali-tours/) - HALI Tours are built upon the experience gathered and contacts made over 40 years of HALI Magazine. They allow special access and exclusive academic content with the chance to see archival material from institutions and private collections not normally on public view. - [Brochure: Great British Collections, June-July 2019](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-great-british-collections-june-july-2019/) - On the occasion of HALI magazine reaching two important milestones—200 editions and 40 years—we are delighted to offer a small group unique access to great antique carpets and textiles from around the world, assembled by collectors in England straight after HALI London in June 2019. - [Photo Album: India, February 2018](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-india-february-2018/) - The first HALI Tour to India visited Rajasthan and Gujarat, where forts and folk-art foundations helped to contextualise the world class textiles found in courtly and private collections. Twenty-two guests attended the fully-booked tour led by Rosemary Crill with Steven Cohen as guest lecturer, 3-16 February 2018. - [Brochure: Japan, Oct - Nov 2018](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-japan-october-november-2018/) - The first HALI Tour to Japan, in association with Martin Randall Travel, will provide insider access to textile collections in museums and temples, private visits to cultural institutions, and presentations by leading textile experts and cultural figures, including the travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer. - [Brochure: Rajasthan & Gujarat, India, February 2019](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-rajasthan-gujarat-india-february-2019/) - Following the success of HALI’s first Textile Arts of India tour in 2018, we are pleased to announce that we will offer privileged access to several important public and private textile collections in Rajasthan and Gujarat for a second time in February 2019. Once again, the tour will be guided by the internationally respected Indian textiles scholar Rosemary Crill, with contributions from Indian carpet expert Steven Cohen. - [Brochure: Morocco, May 2017](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-morocco-may-2017/) - This HALI Tour, 5-14 May 2017, reflects the three distinct aspects of Moroccan textile arts. - [Brochure: Rajasthan & Gujarat, India, February 2018](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-rajasthan-gujarat-india-february-2018/) - The first HALI Textile Arts of India Tour in association with Martin Randall Travel offers exclusive access to iconic carpets and textiles of India, with visits to places rarely seen by tourists. - [Photo Album: Transylvania, June 2017](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-transylvania-june-2017/) - The HALI Tour to Transylvania (9-17 June 2017) combined striking Anatolian rugs, many still in the Saxon churches to which they were donated hundreds of years ago, picturesque medieval towns and outstanding natural beauty. - [Photo Album: Azerbaijan & Georgia, October 2017](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-azerbaijan-georgia-october-2017/) - The third HALI Tour to the Caucasus included Azerbaijan for the first time and added a new dimension to our understanding of the rugs and textile traditions of the region. - [Photo Album: The Decorative Arts of Iberia, May 2015](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-the-decorative-arts-of-iberia-may-2015/) - View photo highlights from the HALI Decorative Arts of Iberia Tour in association with Martin Randall Travel, 19 – 31 May 2015. - [Photo Album: Armenia & Georgia, May 2016](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-armenia-georgia-may-2016/) - Photo album of highlights from the second HALI Tour to Armenia & Georgia, 7 - 16 May 2016. - [Brochure: Azerbaijan & Georgia, October 2017](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-azerbaijan-georgia-october-2017/) - In 2017 the HALI Tour to the Caucasus starts on 21st October, the day after the 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets ends in Baku. The timing provides the perfect opportunity to share the knowledge and experience we have gained from HALI’s two previous tours to the region. - [Brochure: Transylvania June 2017](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-transylvania-june-2017/) - HALI Tours are pleased to offer another chance to take part in a journey of cultural discovery in this timeless part of Romania 9-17 June 2017, 500 years since the Reformation first defined the region. - [Photo Album: Armenia, September 2015](https://hali.com/tours/photo-album-armenia-september-2015/) - Photo album from the 7 day HALI Tour in Armenia, September 2015 - [Brochure: Armenia & Georgia, May 2016](https://hali.com/tours/brochure-armenia-georgia-may-2016/) - View the brochure for the next HALI Tour to Armenia & Georgia, 7 - 16 May 2016, with exclusive access to carpets and textiles in museum stores & private collections. ## Calendar - [Islamic art and Indian Paintings](https://hali.com/calendar/islamic-art-and-indian-paintings/) - [New York International Carpet Show](https://hali.com/calendar/new-york-international-carpet-show-2/) - [Tribal and Textile Art Show](https://hali.com/calendar/tribal-and-textile-art-show/) - [Domotex](https://hali.com/calendar/domotex/) - [The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair](https://hali.com/calendar/the-mayfair-antiques-fine-art-fair/) - [Art Istanbul](https://hali.com/calendar/art-istanbul/) - [Woven Paintings: French and Flemish Tapestries 1660-1770](https://hali.com/calendar/woven-paintings-french-and-flemish-tapestries-1660-1770/) - [5th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/5th-biennial-hamad-bin-khalifa-symposium-on-islamic-art/) - [A Gathering of Weavers](https://hali.com/calendar/v/) - [The First International Symposium: Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond](https://hali.com/calendar/the-first-international-symposium-weaving-royal-traditions-through-time-textiles-and-dress-at-the-thai-court-and-beyond/) - [Asian Art in London](https://hali.com/calendar/asian-art-in-london-2/) - [Rugs & Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/rugs-carpets/) - [African and Oceanic Art](https://hali.com/calendar/african-and-oceanic-art-2/) - [African and Oceanic Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/african-and-oceanic-art/) - [Native American Art](https://hali.com/calendar/native-american-art/) - [Classic Sale](https://hali.com/calendar/classic-sale/) - [Collector’s Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/collectors-carpets-2/) - [Oriental Art](https://hali.com/calendar/oriental-art/) - [Orientalist Paintings and Sculptures & Islamic Art](https://hali.com/calendar/orientalist-paintings-and-sculptures-islamic-art/) - [Decorative Arts](https://hali.com/calendar/decorative-arts/) - [The Collection of Allan Stone: African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/the-collection-of-allan-stone-african-oceanic-and-indonesian-art/) - [African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art](https://hali.com/calendar/african-oceanic-pre-columbian-art/) - [Asian Art](https://hali.com/calendar/asian-art/) - [American Indian & Ethnographic Art](https://hali.com/calendar/american-indian-ethnographic-art/) - [Ramayana - Indian Miniature Art from the National Museum](https://hali.com/calendar/ramayana-indian-miniature-art-from-the-national-museum/) - [Silver from the Malay World](https://hali.com/calendar/silver-from-the-malay-world/) - [Longing for Mecca – the pilgrim’s journey ](https://hali.com/calendar/longing-for-mecca-the-pilgrims-journey-2/) - [Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru ](https://hali.com/calendar/feathered-walls-hangings-from-ancient-peru/) - [Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ](https://hali.com/calendar/roads-of-arabia-archaeology-and-history-of-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/) - [Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present ](https://hali.com/calendar/art-textiles-fabric-as-material-and-concept-in-modern-art-from-klimt-to-the-present/) - [James and Emma Hadfield, missionary couple in Loyalty Islands ](https://hali.com/calendar/james-and-emma-hadfield-missionary-couple-in-loyalty-islands/) - [Emperor Charles v Captures Tunis: Documenting a Campaign](https://hali.com/calendar/emperor-charles-v-captures-tunis-documenting-a-campaign/) - [Secrets D'Ivoire: L'art des Lega d'Afrique centrale](https://hali.com/calendar/secrets-divoire-lart-des-lega-dafrique-centrale/) - [Kanak, L'Art est une Parole ](https://hali.com/calendar/kanak-lart-est-une-parole/) - [John Forbes Watson's Indian Textile Collection ](https://hali.com/calendar/john-forbes-watsons-indian-textile-collection/) - [The Fascination of Persia. The Persian-European Dialogue in 17th century Art & Contemporary Art from Teheran ](https://hali.com/calendar/the-fascination-of-persia-the-persian-european-dialogue-in-17th-century-art-contemporary-art-from-teheran/) - [Ancestry and Artistry: Maya textiles from Guatemala ](https://hali.com/calendar/ · until-12-january-2014-ancestry-and-artistry-maya-textiles-from-guatemala-textile-museum-of-canada-ontario/) - [Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World: Extraordinary Treasures of Sumer, Assyria and Babylon ](https://hali.com/calendar/mesopotamia-inventing-our-world-extraordinary-treasures-of-sumer-assyria-and-babylon/) - [Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800](https://hali.com/calendar/interwoven-globe-the-worldwide-textile-trade-1500-1800/) - [Fifty Years of Collecting Islamic Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/fifty-years-of-collecting-islamic-art/) - [Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/moroccan-carpets-and-modern-art-2/) - [The Book of the Faiyum](https://hali.com/calendar/the-book-of-the-faiyum/) - [The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination](https://hali.com/calendar/the-everlasting-flame-zoroastrianism-in-history-and-imagination/) - [Steel and Gold: Historic Swords](https://hali.com/calendar/steel-and-gold-historic-swords/) - [Renaissance Textiles ](https://hali.com/calendar/renaissance-textiles/) - [The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning ](https://hali.com/calendar/the-cyrus-cylinder-and-ancient-persia-a-new-beginning-2/) - [Made for Eternity ](https://hali.com/calendar/made-for-eternity/) - [A Silk Road Saga: The Sarcophagus of Yu Hong ](https://hali.com/calendar/a-silk-road-saga-the-sarcophagus-of-yu-hong/) - [ Longing for Mecca - the pilgrim's journey](https://hali.com/calendar/longing-for-mecca-the-pilgrims-journey/) - [The Improvisational Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter](https://hali.com/calendar/the-improvisational-quilts-of-susana-allen-hunter/) - [Italian Renaissance Textiles](https://hali.com/calendar/italian-renaissance-textiles/) - [Tsutsugaki: Japanese Indigo-dyed Textiles](https://hali.com/calendar/tsutsugaki-japanese-indigo-dyed-textiles/) - [Quilts 1700-1945](https://hali.com/calendar/quilts-1700-1945/) - [Domotex asia/CHINAFLOOR](https://hali.com/calendar/domotex-asiachinafloor/) - [Parcours des Mondes 2013](https://hali.com/calendar/parcours-des-mondes-2013/) - [The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show](https://hali.com/calendar/the-international-fine-art-antique-dealers-show/) - [Asian Art in London](https://hali.com/calendar/asian-art-in-london/) - [Weaving Royal Traditions through Time](https://hali.com/calendar/weaving-royal-traditions-through-time/) - [Antique Rug & Textile Show](https://hali.com/calendar/antique-rug-textile-show/) - [New York International Carpet Show](https://hali.com/calendar/new-york-international-carpet-show/) - [The 4th Middle East Carpet Fair](https://hali.com/calendar/the-4th-middle-east-carpet-fair/) - [35th Annual Antique Indian Art Show](https://hali.com/calendar/35th-annual-antique-indian-art-show/) - [30th Annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show](https://hali.com/calendar/30th-annual-antique-ethnographic-art-show/) - [Shetland Arts International, Textile Festival](https://hali.com/calendar/shetland-arts-international-textile-festival/) - [Woven Identities](https://hali.com/calendar/woven-identities/) - [The Pleasures of Collecting/Works of Art and Textiles](https://hali.com/calendar/the-pleasures-of-collectingworks-of-art-and-textiles/) - [14th International Triennial of Tapestry](https://hali.com/calendar/14th-international-triennial-of-tapestry/) - [Carpet, textiles and table cloths](https://hali.com/calendar/carpet-textiles-and-table-cloths/) - [Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles](https://hali.com/calendar/sacred-stitches-ecclesiastical-textiles/) - [Ancestry and Artistry: Maya textiles from Guatemala](https://hali.com/calendar/ancestry-and-artistry-maya-textiles-from-guatemala/) - [Out of Southeast Asia: Art That Sustains](https://hali.com/calendar/out-of-southeast-asia-art-that-sustains/) - [Fabrics of Oceania](https://hali.com/calendar/fabrics-of-oceania/) - [English Embroideries](https://hali.com/calendar/english-embroideries/) - [History of Threads](https://hali.com/calendar/history-of-threads/) - [Textiles In Motion](https://hali.com/calendar/textiles-in-motion/) - [Red, White & Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840–1870](https://hali.com/calendar/red-white-bold-masterworks-of-navajo-design-1840-1870/) - [Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture](https://hali.com/calendar/beauty-and-belief-crossing-bridges-with-the-arts-of-islamic-culture/) - [Visiting with the Ancestors: The Blackfoot Shirts Project](https://hali.com/calendar/visiting-with-the-ancestors-the-blackfoot-shirts-project/) - [Symmetry/Asymmetry: African Textiles, Dress and Adornment](https://hali.com/calendar/symmetryasymmetry-african-textiles-dress-and-adornment/) - [From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile Treasures](https://hali.com/calendar/from-the-exotic-to-the-mystical-textile-treasures/) - [Objects from the Kharga Oasis](https://hali.com/calendar/objects-from-the-kharga-oasis/) - [The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning ](https://hali.com/calendar/the-cyrus-cylinder-and-ancient-persia-a-new-beginning/) - [Making the Invisible Visible: Conservation and Islamic Art, ](https://hali.com/calendar/making-the-invisible-visible-conservation-and-islamic-art/) - [Collector’s Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/collectors-carpets/) - [Islamic and Indian Art and Textiles](https://hali.com/calendar/islamic-and-indian-art-and-textiles/) - [Arts of the Islamic & Indian Worlds](https://hali.com/calendar/arts-of-the-islamic-indian-worlds/) - [Oriental Rugs & Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/oriental-rugs-carpets-3/) - [Arts of the Islamic World](https://hali.com/calendar/arts-of-the-islamic-world/) - [Islamic & Indian Art](https://hali.com/calendar/islamic-indian-art/) - [Oriental Rugs & Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/oriental-rugs-carpets-2/) - [Saeed Motamed Collection, Part II](https://hali.com/calendar/saeed-motamed-collection-part-ii/) - [General Carpet Auction](https://hali.com/calendar/general-carpet-auction/) - [Tribal Art](https://hali.com/calendar/tribal-art/) - [Oriental Carpets, Textiles & Tapestries](https://hali.com/calendar/oriental-carpets-textiles-tapestries/) - [Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/carpets/) - [International sale (includes rugs)](https://hali.com/calendar/international-sale-includes-rugs/) - [Indian & Southeast Asian Art](https://hali.com/calendar/indian-southeast-asian-art/) - [The Opulent Eye: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe](https://hali.com/calendar/the-opulent-eye-500-years-decorative-arts-europe/) - [Rugs & Carpets, Ethnographic Art](https://hali.com/calendar/rugs-carpets-ethnographic-art/) - [Antique, Decorative & Tribal Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/antique-decorative-tribal-carpets/) - [Oriental Rugs & Carpets](https://hali.com/calendar/oriental-rugs-carpets/) - [San Francisco Antique Rug & Textile Show (ARTS) ](https://hali.com/calendar/san-francisco-antique-rug-textile-show-arts/) - [Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection](https://hali.com/calendar/arts-of-islamic-lands-selections-from-the-al-sabah-collection/) - [Flora Islamica: Plant motifs in the Art of Islam ](https://hali.com/calendar/flora-islamica-plant-motifs-in-the-art-of-islam/) - [Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art ](https://hali.com/calendar/moroccan-carpets-and-modern-art/) - [Decorum: Artists’ Carpets and Tapestries](https://hali.com/calendar/decorum-artists-carpets-and-tapestries/) - [Highlights from the Textile Collection](https://hali.com/calendar/highlights-from-the-textile-collection/) - [The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth: Ancient Threads/New Directions ](https://hali.com/calendar/the-peruvian-four-selvaged-cloth-ancient-threadsnew-directions/) - [Austria Auction Company](https://hali.com/calendar/austria-auction-company/) - [An Ottoman Tent from the Wawel Collection ](https://hali.com/calendar/an-ottoman-tent-from-the-wawel-collection/) - [9th Sartirana Textile Show](https://hali.com/calendar/9th-sartirana-textile-show-19-22-september-2013/) - [The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art](https://hali.com/calendar/the-santa-fe-show-objects-of-art/) ## Editor's Choice - [Making Connections: the Role of Archives](https://hali.com/choices/making-connections-the-role-of-archives/) - In recent years, the opening up of museum and private archives, with increased online access to collections and information about them, has allowed textile researchers such as Ann French to build a more detailed picture of the interconnections between, and the methods used, by the early collectors of Greek embroidery. - [Samuil Martinovich Dudin](https://hali.com/choices/samuil-martinovich-dudin/) - At a time when travel is limited, we would like to highlight a man whose research and collecting journeys form the basis for much of our knowledge of Central Asian weaving culture. - [Ladakh & Zanskar](https://hali.com/choices/ladakh-zanskar/) - 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. - [Tehran's Treasure Trove](https://hali.com/choices/tehrans-treasure/) - For its first forty years of existence, external circumstances prevented the Carpet Museum of Iran from revealing its treasures to the world. This year, however, a major exhibition brought the institution back to life. Hadi Maktabi reports on the show and what it means for the museum. - [An Ottoman Çatma at Sotheby's, London](https://hali.com/choices/an-ottoman-catma-at-sothebys-london/) - This large Ottoman voided silk velvet and metal-thread panel (çatma) panel, made in Bursa or Istanbul in the late 16th century, is one of the few textiles in Sotheby's London sale of 'Arts of the Islamic world' on 25 October 2017. Estimated at £80-120,000, it measures 162 by 127.5cm and was woven in two parts, - [Colors of the Oasis installed at MFAH](https://hali.com/choices/colors-oasis-installed-mfah/) - [Top Ten from Vienna](https://hali.com/choices/highlights-from-vienna/) - [Tribal Art London: Highlights of the Opening](https://hali.com/choices/tribal-art-london-highlights-opening/) - A textile focused view of the first day of London's specialist tribal art event, held at the Mall Galleries to 4 September 2016. - [Views from Iran](https://hali.com/choices/views-from-iran/) - Photos from Cheri Hunter's tour of Iran, February 2015. A 12 day HALI Tour to Iran will take place in October 2016 - ['Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC](https://hali.com/choices/unraveling-identity-at-the-new-textile-museum-in-washington-dc/) - [First Glance – Second Look: Quilts at the Denver Art Museum](https://hali.com/choices/first-glance-second-look-quilts-denver-art-museum/) - First Glance – Second Look: Quilts at the Denver Art Museum by Dale Carolyn Gluckman - [Parviz Tanavoli Retrospective at the Davis Collection, MA](https://hali.com/choices/parviz-tanavoli-retrospective-davis-collection-ma/) - The first comprehensive retrospective of work by the ‘father of modern Iranian sculpture’, Parvis Tanavoli at a US museum is to be held at The Davis Collection at Wellesley College, MA, 10 February – 7 June 2015. - [Kilims from the Neiriz Collection at the Volkspark, Halle](https://hali.com/choices/kilims-neiriz-collection-volkspark-halle/) - The Berlin artist/art dealer Hamid Sadighi is descended from Southwest Persian tribal khans. Until 30 November 2014, the exhibition '100 Kelims' representing about one third of his collection of 19th century Persian tribal and nomadic flatweaves (arguably the world's best), as well as some closely related Transcaucasian and Anatolian kilims, is on show at the Volkspark - [Tom Cole's Light on Persia, October 2014](https://hali.com/choices/tom-coles-exhibit-october-2014/) - Tribal weavings from northwest and south Persia are now show in San Rafael, just a short drive north of the Golden Gate Bridge in California’s Marin County, at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole. Light on Persia can be viewed until 1 December 2014. Viewing is by appointment, please contact thomascole@earthlink.net - ['Front/Back' – Alberto Levi online exhibition](https://hali.com/choices/frontback-online-exhibition-alberto-levi/) - The Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan are currently showing Front/Back, an online exhibition of small tribal Persian weavings. - [Distant Neighbour, Close Memories: 600 years of Turkish-Polish Relations](https://hali.com/choices/600-years-turkish-polish-relations/) - As Turkey celebrated her 600-year friendship with Poland – dated from their first recorded treaty in 1414 – Istanbul’s Sakıp Sabancı Museum held an exhibition, recently ended (7 March–15 June 2014), of Ottoman works of art and Polish imitations drawn from both Polish and Turkish collections. Penny Oakley reports: The exhibits fell roughly into three - [HALI UK Tour 2014 highlights ](https://hali.com/choices/highlights-hali-uk-tour-2014/) - The first HALI UK Tour concluded last month. We spent 10 days gaining a privileged, in depth look at the best carpets and textiles in Britain in the good company of just under 20 HALI subscribers. - [The Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, welcomes visitors from late April to early November](https://hali.com/choices/the-abegg-stiftung-riggisberg-welcomes-visitors-from-late-april-to-early-november/) - This year the Abegg-Stiftung, in Riggisberg, Switzerland opens its doors to the public from 27th April to 9th November 2014. In addition to a new special exhibition called 'Veil and Adornment. Medieval Textiles and the Cult of Relics' the permanent exhibition, newly interpreted some two and a half years ago, is always worth travelling to see. - [Thai Textiles in Focus](https://hali.com/choices/thai-textile-symposium/) - 'Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time', the first international symposium to take place at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (QSMT) in Bangkok, Thailand took place from 5 - 9 November 2013. The event offered special opportunities to see behind the scenes at the new museum and visit private collections of Southeast Asian textiles not accessible to the general public, as well as a post-conference Thai textiles tour. - [Classical Carpets - Berlin’s War Losses at the Old Mint](https://hali.com/choices/berlins-war-losses-at-the-old-mint/) - Among the add-ons during the recent BARE antique carpet and textile art fair at the Old Mint in Berlin was an evocative special documentary photo exhibition, ‘Schicksalsnacht im Tresorraum der Alten Münze – Das Ende der bedeutenden Sammlung Bodes’ (Fateful Night in the Vault of the Old Mint – The End of the Important Bode Collection). - [V&A Opens Clothworkers' Centre at Blythe House](https://hali.com/choices/va-opens-clothworkers-centre-at-blythe-house/) - The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion has just opened at Blythe House, near Olympia in west London, offering unprecedented access to the museum’s textiles. Situated on the third and fourth floors, the huge collection now sits amid so much history that it is hard to - [Textile and tribal art highlights at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair](https://hali.com/choices/textile-and-tribal-art-highlights-at-the-olympia-international-art-antiques-fair/) - The 41st Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, 6th-16th June 2013, is a constant in the rapidly changing landscape of art fairs in London and thus remains an excellent event for all tastes and pockets. - [The Zaleski Collection of Caucasian rugs - part 1.5](https://hali.com/choices/edit-0513/) - Additional Caucasian highlights from the world's foremost private collection of rugs, the first tranche of which was published for the first time in HALI 175 . ## Contacts - [Radostina Dobreva](https://hali.com/contacts/radostina-dobreva-2/) - T: +44 (0) 203 727 4944 E: radostina.dobreva@hali.com - [Office](https://hali.com/contacts/subscriptions/) - Hali Publications Ltd. 6 Sylvester Path London E8 1EN United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 203 727 4940 - [Daniel Shaffer 
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Armenian Church chintz hangings; rural & nomadic Moroccan textiles; how Islamic art came to Berlin & more in HALI 186 - [Autumn 2015](https://hali.com/issues/autumn-2015/) - The Fabric of India at the V&A, little known rugs in the MAA Budapest, textiles of rural Tunisia, nomadic felt traditions and much more in HALI 185 - [Summer 2015](https://hali.com/issues/summer-2015/) - Japanese meisen kimono, the George Hewitt Myers Collection and Kuba skirts at the Neuberger Museum. All this and more in HALI 184. - [Spring 2015](https://hali.com/issues/spring-2015/) - Inside Japan’s Miho Museum, the champion of chintz and velvets from the Indictor Collection. All this and more in HALI 183. - [Winter 2014](https://hali.com/issues/winter-2014/) - The Textile Museum reopening in Washington in March 2015, mysterious Baluchar saris from Bengal in Mumbai, and a world record price for a Chinese work of art at auction in Market Report. All this and more in HALI 182, out now! - [Autumn 2014](https://hali.com/issues/autumn-2014/) - Compass Editorial: Reflections on events in Vienna and the future of the rug and textile appreciation Dialogue: Anatolian kilims and ceramics rub shoulders in Germany; kimono-time in the USA; Salor record in Austria Auction Company’s third sale; new museums open in Baku, Geneva, Toronto and Milan; changes to the Carpet Design Awards Diary: A selection of international must-see - [Summer 2014](https://hali.com/issues/summer-2014/) - Compass Editorial: Reflections on the HALI UK Tour and the Wher collection, one of the world’s best private collection of carpets and textiles Dialogue: A Bamileke beadwork leopard skin; tribal art fairs in Amsterdam and Paris; Renaissance tapestries in Vilnius and at the Metropolitan Museum; ‘Masterpiece in Chelsea’; HALI Tours Diary: A selection of international must-see events Calendar: Highlighting - [Spring 2014](https://hali.com/issues/spring-2014/) - Compass Editorial: Reflections on carpet and textile issues arising from the Editor's recent trip to Yerevan in the republic of Armenia. Dialogue: HALI's UK tour; reopenings at the MAK and the Abegg-Stiftung; the Ancient & Modern Award; Olympia International Arts & Antiques Fair; Austria Auction Company's second sale. Diary: A selection of international must-see events. Calendar: Some of the - [Winter 2013](https://hali.com/issues/winter-2013/) - Compass Editorial: A discussion about the importance of museum exhibitions imparting knowledge to the public leads to exciting news about the HALI tours. Dialogue: Introducing the HALI UK tour; an ICOC special event in Budapest and Vienna; an online auction breaks a world record; V&A Museum’s Clothworkers’ Centre at Blythe House; a tapestry makes £1.2 million at - [Autumn 2013](https://hali.com/issues/autumn-2013/) - Compass Editorial: Museum-wide exhibitions in Denver and New York help reaffirm the value of textiles as bearers of cultural significance. Dialogue: Cleveland Museum Islamic textiles; SF Tribal Art; Parcours des Mondes in Paris; the R. L. Shep Award winner; Treffens and Thomas Wild. Also: an APG letter; what’s new at www.hali.com. Diary: Ten must-see events recommended by HALI. - [Summer 2013](https://hali.com/issues/summer-2013/) - Compass Editorial: What are the implications of the sale of the record-breaking Clark Kerman carpet? Dialogue: The launch of a new Austrian auction house; a Royal Textile Museum for Thailand; what's new on www.hali.com; HALI visits Transylvania. Diary: Ten must-see events recommended by HALI. Calendar: Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences taking place this season. Thread of time: The - [Spring 2013](https://hali.com/issues/autumn-2012/) - Compass Thread of Time: The colour purple: two textiles, 800 years, and the enduring power of a royal hue. Dialogue: Asian Art Week in New York; an important auction by the estate of Andy Williams; Chinese ceramics; Grayson Perry's tapestries; the V&A's Jameel Prize. Plus: letters to HALI; commemorating friends who have passed on. Diary: Ten - [Summer 2012](https://hali.com/issues/summer-2012/) - Frontlines News: SCATA Leipzig and Hoff meister/Tsareva Turkmen questions arising; Classical carpets in Paris sale; LARTA; Parcours Paris; Navajo First Phase blanket smashes all auction records; Material Culture enters the auction fray Profile: Conceptual Art advocate, bibliophile and textile collector Seth Siegelaub Benchmarks: Setting standards for Turkmen embroidered bokches and Shekarlu rugs Forum: - [Autumn 2012](https://hali.com/issues/autumn-2012-2/) - Frontlines Letters: The travails of an embargoed Baluch, putting a fragment in its place News: The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney receives 127 Yomut weavings; Caskey-Lees and Bonhams cut back on current activity; James Mellaart and Nunzio Crisa remembered; CDA 2013 Profile: Monique Levi-Strauss, doyenne of 'Cachemire', talks to Judy Wentworth to mark the publication of the definitive - [Winter 2012](https://hali.com/issues/winter-2012/) - Frontlines News: A rug fair in Vienna and a carpet conference in Baku announced for 2013; The MMAs Anhalt carpet revealed; Flemish tapestries at Buckingham Palace; in memoriam: Myrna Myers Forum: Everything you've ever wanted to know about carbon-14 (but were afraid to ask): the science of dating from Dr Christine Prior Postcard: Loving Paris ## News - [Carpet & Textile Forum 2026](https://hali.com/news/carpet-textile-forum-2026/) - The Carpet & Textile Forum will return this year from 28–30 April for three days of presentations, discussions and study devoted to carpets and textiles. Taking place at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott in Buellton, California, the event will feature six sessions presented by specialists in their fields. Collectors, dealers and enthusiasts from the United States and beyond are - [Austria Auction Company 'Masterpieces III'](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-masterpieces-iii/) - Austria Auction Company in Vienna will hold its 'Masterpieces III' sale on 14 February, featuring forty high quality antique rugs and textiles from private European collections. The lots can be previewed from 11–13 February from 11am–5pm and on 14 February from 11am–4pm. Here are some highlights. A striking Tibetan 'Tiger Rug', dating to around 1900, is - [Carpet Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha](https://hali.com/news/carpet-masterpieces-from-the-museum-of-islamic-arts-doha/) - A show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, dedicated to carpets from Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ottoman Turkey, loaned from the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, marks the first major Islamic art exhibition in the city. Showcasing one hundred artworks spanning the 10th–19th centuries, ‘Wonders of Imperial Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of - [Faig Ahmed in Baku](https://hali.com/news/faig-ahmed-in-baku/) - For the first time, carpets by the contemporary Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed are being exhibited in his home country. A major exhibition dedicated to Ahmed’s work — a compelling fusion of traditional carpet weaving and contemporary digital techniques — is being shown at the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum in Baku. 'Faig Ahmed: Epoch - [Textiles selected by The Princess of Wales for V&A East](https://hali.com/news/textiles-selected-by-the-princess-of-wales-for-va-east/) - The Princess of Wales has selected nine rare artefacts—including textiles—to be displayed at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse. - [The 2025–2026 Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship has been awarded](https://hali.com/news/the-2025-2026-hajji-baba-club-research-fellowship-has-been-awarded/) - The Hajji Baba Club in New York City has announced that Kristen Pearson has been awarded the 2025–2026 Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship. Since it was established in 2018, the programme has promoted original scholarship in the field of carpet studies and provides support and visibility for emerging scholars and independent researchers. Chosen from - [War rug in Bergamo](https://hali.com/news/war-rug-in-bergamo/) - A war rug, bought in Kabul in 1986, from Luca Brancati's collection appears in ‘De Bello: Notes on War and Peace’, an exhibition at Gres Art 671 in Bergamo, Italy, until 12 October 2025. The identity of the weaver remains unknown, however, evidence suggests it was likely made in the village of Qal'ha-ye, now - [MFAH Showcases Major Acquisition of Indian Textiles in New Exhibition](https://hali.com/news/mfah-showcases-major-acquisition-of-indian-textiles-in-new-exhibition/) - ‘From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston celebrates the acquisition of 187 Indian textiles from the collection of Banoo and Jeevak Parpia, one of the most comprehensive private collections of Indian textiles outside of India. This show follows the museum’s 2023 installation ‘Woven Wonders: - [Style Matters: the case for Lakai Suzanis](https://hali.com/news/style-matters-the-case-for-lakai-suzanis/) - In his article in HALI 215, Jeff Spurr sets out to demonstrate an integral link between a brilliant but eccentric and ill-understood subset of antique urban suzanis from the Emirate of Bukhara, and small-scale embroideries created by the Lakai, a rural Uzbek people, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read the unabridged article. - [The HALI Colloquium in Italy: Florence, Milan, Turin and Genoa](https://hali.com/news/the-hali-colloquium-in-italy-florence-milan-turin-and-genoa/) - HALI has organised a series of special events in Italy to precede the two-day colloquium Kerman Carpets of the Safavid Period (1501-1736) in Genoa, organised in memory of Alessandro Bruschettini, the renowned collector of Islamic art. Conceived as a celebration of the wealth of antique carpets and textiles in Italy, a week of talks, guided museum visits - [Kour Pour: New Homes, New Places, Gallery 1957, London](https://hali.com/news/kour-pour-new-homes-new-places-gallery-1957-london/) - From 24 March to 14 May 2022, Gallery 1957 in London is presenting a solo show by Kour Pour, a British-Iranian artist who spent considerable time in his father's carpet shop as a child, memories of which have become a central component in his practice. Exhibition review by Sara Makari-Aghdam. ‘Or was home indeed the - [HALI Fair Online 2022](https://hali.com/news/hali-fair-online-2022/) - HALI Fair Online returns from 20-30 May 2022. The virtual event is focused exclusively on extraordinary antique rugs and textiles from around the globe. It follows the success of the inaugural virtual HALI Fair in June 2021 and promises to be one of the best places to source unique, collectible and decorative carpets and textiles this spring. - [Orient Stars Lands in Doha](https://hali.com/news/orient-stars-lands-in-doha/) - Since the beginning of October 2021, when the outcome of Rippon Boswell’s ‘Orient Stars 2’ sale of 98 early, art historically significant rugs consigned by the Kirchheim family was settled by a winning pre-sale offer for the entire collection, the identity of the institutional buyer has remained a well-kept secret, much speculated about by all - [Postcard from Kyiv](https://hali.com/news/postcard-from-kyiv/) - Featured in HALI 197 ‘Postcard from Kyiv’ recounts the journey of carpet dealer and scholar Aaron Nejad who returned to Ukraine in 2018 in order to seek out some truth in the story of the region’s distinctive and desirable ‘Bessarabian’ kilims. An abridged version of the article follows below. To aid the ongoing crisis in - [Book Review: Crafting Textiles](https://hali.com/news/book-review-crafting-textiles/) - Featured in HALI 210, Kristal Hale reviews Crafting Textiles: Tablet weaving, Sprang, Lace and other techniques from the bronze age to the early 17th century: The high tone of this book is established from the start. The opening dedication is to Peter Collingwood, a legendary textile scholar, author, weaver/maker and member of the Early Textiles - [Book Review: Indian Tiles](https://hali.com/news/indian-tiles-book-review/) - Featured in HALI 210, Penny Oakley reviews Arthur Millner’s latest book, Indian Tiles: Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan: Arthur Millner’s first book, Damascus Tiles, addressed a topic never before studied in its entirety (reviewed HALI 186). It became one of those works that establish themselves as the encyclopaedia for their field. - [Fair Review: ARTS, Antique Rug and Textiles Show 2021](https://hali.com/news/fair-review-arts-antique-rug-and-textiles-show-2021/) - Having been cancelled for almost two years, you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief when it was announced that ARTS was going to happen again on the 3 - 5 December 2021. This traditional get-together of dealers and collectors in the Bay Area is an important part of the rug and textile collecting - [Bamana Mud Cloth:​ From Mali to the World - Dallas Museum of Art](https://hali.com/news/bamana-mud-cloth-from-mali-to-the-world-dallas-museum-of-art/) - The Dallas Museum of Art's focused exhibition features the museum's recently acquired textiles by the Bamana peoples of Mali. On display until December 4, 2022 'Bamana Mud Cloth:​ From Mali to the World' explores the complete labor-intensive process and identifies how the distinctive patterns have been used in Western products, from designer clothing to home furnishings. While an interactive display in the exhibition allows patrons to create their own bogolanfini design using some of the Bamana people’s motifs. - [Textile Healing, Alberto Levi Gallery, Open Until 12 March 2022](https://hali.com/news/textile-healing-alberto-levi-gallery-open-until-12-march-2022/) - ‘Textile Healing’ opened on 28 January, at ‘The Vault’—, the ancient Roman cellars of Alberto Levi Gallery, Via San Maurilio 24, Milan. Organised by Alberto Levi Gallery in collaboration with Mero Matters Fine Arts, the exhibition is open until 12 March 2022. It aims to investigate the process of creation as a moment of healing, - [Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century, Luhring Augustine](https://hali.com/news/court-epic-spirit-indian-art-15th-19th-century-show-luhring-augustine/) - London-based gallery Francesca Galloway, renowned for its Indian art and textile expertise, has partnered with New York art gallery Luhring Augustine to present ‘Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century’. The exhibition will take place at Luhring Augustine Tribeca in New York until 24 March 2022 and is accompanied by a catalogue. The show features some truly outstanding examples of Indian painting from different periods, but our focus here shall be the three textiles illustrated in the HALI 210 exhibition preview. - [Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design, 22 January 2022](https://hali.com/news/indian-textiles1000-years-of-art-and-design-22-january-2022/) - 'Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design' opens from 22 January to 6 June 2022 and is accompanied by a limited-edition catalogue which includes essays by leading historians of Indian textiles, including Rosemary Crill, Steven Cohen, Avalon Fotheringham and Sylvia Houghteling and will showcase court weavings, folk embroideries and other fabrics from the 9th - early 20th centuries. In this article Rosemary Crill, editor of the accompanying catalogue, explores the ideas behind the exhibition. - ['As Precious as Gold, Carpets from the Islamic World', Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, USA](https://hali.com/news/as-precious-as-gold-carpets-from-the-islamic-world-currier-museum-of-art-manchester-nh-usa/) - On loan from the Saint Louis Art Museum, 'As Precious as Gold, Carpets from the Islamic World' features 32 carpets and one tent dating from the 15th century to the 19th century and is considered one of the most significant in the world. - [Karun Thakar Scholarships awarded](https://hali.com/news/karun-thakar-scholarships-awarded/) - Presented by Karun Thakar in collaboration with the V&A and following a challenging review process, the Karun Thakar Scholarships selection committee is awarding funds to three outstanding candidates working on Asian or African textiles and dress. - [London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair 2022](https://hali.com/news/london-antique-rug-textile-art-fair-2022/) - After the 2021 online-only event, the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) is back in person next year at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in London's Battersea Park from 25-30 January 2022. - ['Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith'](https://hali.com/news/spain-1000-1200-art-at-the-frontiers-of-faith/) - Featured in HALI 209’s pick of the best rug and textile exhibitions and events around the globe, the current exhibition, ‘Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith’ is open at The Met Cloisters, New York until 30 January 2022. In this article we take a more detailed look at some of the medieval textile pieces on display. - ['Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles'](https://hali.com/news/weaving-splendor-treasures-of-asian-textiles/) - Glimpses into the enduring history of Asia’s diverse textile traditions are provided by the extraordinary but rarely seen treasures in the exhibition ‘Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles’. - ['Beyond Utility: Rugs of Southwest Persia'](https://hali.com/news/beyond-utility-rugs-of-southwest-persia/) - This online exhibition of sixteen rugs from Southwest Persia tells a complex story of the way these peoples were able to capture the minds and markets of the world for their designs and provides an excellent opportunity to view some outstanding examples of the beauty of 19th-century southwest Persian tribal rugs - [Navajo Weaving Culture](https://hali.com/news/navajo-weaving-culture/) - In relation to the exhibition of Navajo rugs currently on show at Montclair Art Museum, until 2 January 2021, we revisit the unique Navajo weaving culture featured in HALI 202. - [Antique Tibetan Tiger Rugs](https://hali.com/news/antique-tibetan-tiger-rugs/) - We take a look back at the Tibetan tiger rugs produced for TX2, detailed in HALI 199, in anticipation of the antique Tibetan tiger rugs available at Austria Auction Company's upcoming specialist carpet auction. 'Fine Oriental Rugs XXVII Auction' takes place on 27 November 2021. - [Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles](https://hali.com/news/color-riot-how-color-changed-navajo-textiles/) - Seventy bold artworks from 1860–1930 and the present day are currently on show at Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey until 2 January 2021. 'Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles', celebrates the courage and vision to experiment. - ['North Country Quilts: In Celebration of New Acquisitions' at The Bowes Museum](https://hali.com/news/celebration-of-new-acquisitions/) - This ongoing exhibition showcases twenty-six new acquisitions to The Bowes Museum’s nationally important quilt collection. The exhibition which can also be accessed online is accompanied by a catalogue, and a reprint of the book which accompanied the larger 2000 exhibition ‘North Country Quilts: Legend and Living Tradition’. - [Tibetan Weaving - The Carpet Museum at Voigtsberg Castle](https://hali.com/news/tibetan-weaving-the-carpet-museum-at-schlos-voigtsberg/) - The recently opened exhibition at The Carpet Museum at Voigtsberg Castle, Germany, provides an overview of 15th Century to Modern day Tibetan weaving, in a huge departure from the usual exhibitions of carpets made in the local region. - [125 Years of De Wit](https://hali.com/news/book-review-125-years-of-de-wit/) - Read an abridged version of the HALI 204 book review of 'Tapestry Production & Conservation 125 Years of De Wit - Royal Manufacturers of Tapestry' by Maria Taboga and Nello Forti Grazzini. While highly technical content, it is always a pleasurable as well as an informative read: a gateway to a fascinating world, made of coloured threads, warps and wefts. - [Profile: Cathryn Cootner](https://hali.com/news/profile-cathryn-cootner/) - Cathryn Cootner—collector, dealer, author, lecturer and formerly curator of textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—passed away earlier this year after a mercifully short battle with cancer. In HALI 209, a self portrait has been compiled by Thomas Cole - [The Orient Stars Collection](https://hali.com/news/the-orient-stars-collection/) - Watch a new feature length film on The Orient Stars Collection of rugs and textiles acquired by Heinrich and Waltraut Kirchheim - [Kum Kapı Rugs from the Arkas Collection at TIEM, Istanbul](https://hali.com/news/kumkapi-rugs-arkas-collection-tiem-istanbul/) - An exhibition of Kum Kapı rugs from the Arkas Collection opened on 5 October 2017 at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (TIEM), Istanbul. - [Fabulous creatures](https://hali.com/news/fabulous-creatures/) - Dating and attributing origins to antique rugs from Anatolia is an area of scholarship rife with conjecture and contention. Having researched carpets in the Orient Stars collection for the forthcoming Orient Stars 2, Michael Franses notes the pitfalls awaiting those who venture in this direction. - [Preview: Collection of Rugs and Textiles from American and European Estates, Nazmiyal Auctions](https://hali.com/news/collection-of-rugs-and-textiles-from-american-and-european-estates-nazmiyal-auctions/) - Nazmiyal Auctions is set to sell 113 lots of antique and vintage carpets on Thursday 18 June 2020. - [Travellers' Tales: Declarations of Independence](https://hali.com/news/travellers-tales-declarations-of-independence/) - Cosima Stewart celebrates her love of Georgia—and the textile traditions that exemplify the country’s unique culture and spirit - [HALI Fair Online, 23-27 June 2021](https://hali.com/news/hali-fair-online-23-27-june-2021/) - HALI Fair Online is a new virtual event focused exclusively on antique rugs and textiles from around the globe, with a Fair, Exhibitions and Events including lectures, interviews and presentations - [The Arts of Iran Now and Then](https://hali.com/news/the-arts-of-iran-now-and-then/) - With a new exhibition of Iranian art opening in the British capital, we look back at the ground-breaking 1931 ‘International Exhibition of Persian Art’ - [Anatomy of an Object: Jebel Amour rug](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-jebel-amour-rug/) - Gebhart Blazek reveals the secrets contained within an Algerian Jebel Amour rug - [Academics in the Greek Archipelago](https://hali.com/news/academics-in-the-greek-archipelago/) - Francesca Leoni explains how a discovery in the Ashmolean Museum’s archives threw fresh light on an important area of British textile collecting—the acquisition of Greek island embroideries—and led to a new exhibition and catalogue - [Book Review: Persische Textilien: Die Sammlung Ramezani/ Persian Textiles: The Ramezani Family Collection](https://hali.com/news/hali-book-review-persische-textilien-die-sammlung-ramezani-persian-textiles-the-ramezani-family-collection/) - In HALI 206, Jennifer Scarce reviews the new publication ‘Persische Textilien: Die Sammlung Ramezani’ by Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff - [COVER Connect Talk on Demand: Sustainability in Practice](https://hali.com/news/cover-connect-talk-on-demand-sustainability-in-practice/) - COVER Connect may be over but you can still catch up on all the Talks on-demand - [Profile: Fred Mushkat](https://hali.com/news/profile-fred-mushkat/) - American collector Fred Mushkat on his new publication about woven bands and the role of the collector - [A Selection from Auction Price Guide 2020](https://hali.com/news/hali-205-auction-price-guide/) - Auction Price Guide is one of the longest-running and most popular sections in HALI magazine, and a great place to learn more about specific carpets and textiles. Here we highlight six Auction Price Guide entries from HALI 205 - [Thread of Time: A Turkish Prayer Rug and a Nigerian Hausa or Nupe Robe](https://hali.com/news/thread-of-time-turkish-prayer-rug-nigerian-hausa-or-nupe-robe/) - In HALI 205, Rachel Meek presents two Islamic textiles from earlier centuries with talismanic properties. One’s decoration provided protection, the other’s required it - [From the Pasha to Pennsylvania](https://hali.com/news/from-the-pasha-to-pennsylvania/) - A large-medallion Ushak from the early 1500s has travelled between the Near East, Europe and America over the centuries. In HALI 205, Autumn 2020, Ted Mast places this exceptional carpet in context and uncovers its history - [How the Dutch Made Chintz Their Own](https://hali.com/news/how-the-dutch-made-chintz-their-own/) - Nathalie Cassée has uncovered documentation that rewrites the accepted history of block-printing cotton in Europe - [Crafting the Future From the Past](https://hali.com/news/crafting-the-future-from-the-past/) - The carpet designer and producer Jan Kath is recognised for innovation and originality. But, as he tells HALI, his roots and his inspiration are in tradition - [Memories of Chuck Paterson, 1945-2020](https://hali.com/news/memories-of-chuck-paterson-1945-2020/) - I can’t actually remember when or where I first met Chuck Paterson. Perhaps at that pivotal San Francisco 1990 ICOC or an early ACOR or one of the Tribal Art Shows, because he was at all of those events, ubiquitous with his open friendly smile, welcoming manner and unfiltered Camel in his fingers. In fact, - [Exhibition of Newly Conserved Carpets in Istanbul](https://hali.com/news/exhibition-of-newly-conserved-carpets-at-istanbul-carpet-week-2020/) - In HALI 204, Alberto Boralevi warmly welcomed an important exhibition of newly conserved carpets which opened at the Istanbul Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art (TIEM) on 13 March - [The HALI Calendar](https://hali.com/news/the-hali-calendar/) - Books and events planned and produced by HALI for the rest of 2020 and beyond - [Lectures at Istanbul Carpet Week – Virtual Edition](https://hali.com/news/lectures-at-istanbul-carpet-week-virtual-edition/) - Istanbul Carpet Week returns this autumn with a virtual edition taking place on 21-23 October 2020 to showcase the products and skills of one of the world’s oldest traditional weaving centres - [HALI Book Review: Tudor Textiles](https://hali.com/news/hali-book-review-tudor-textiles/) - The new publication 'Tudor Textiles' by Eleri Lynn covers the period from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I in 1603 - [HALI Profile: Jenny Housego](https://hali.com/news/hali-profile-jenny-housego/) - Author, collector and textile entrepreneur Jenny Housego has had a remarkable life, which is now told in full in a new book. In HALI 204, she talks to us about some of the landmark moments in her career. - [The Tiffany Palace Carpet to be Auctioned at Christie's in New York on 14 October 2020](https://hali.com/news/the-exceptional-sale-christies-new-york-14-october-2020/) - On Wednesday 14 October 2020, Christie’s will hold ‘The Exceptional Sale’ of decorative artworks in New York - [Striking Simplicity](https://hali.com/news/striking-simplicity/) - In conjunction with the publication of his article 'Striking simplicity’ in HALI 204, Gebhart Blazek celebrates the distinctive qualities of Moroccan flatweaves with an exhibition of Moroccan kilims at his gallery in Graz from 5 September to 3 October - [Thread of Time: A Tapestry Portrait of Napoleon The Bayeux Tapestry](https://hali.com/news/a-tapestry-portrait-of-napoleon-the-bayeux-tapestry/) - In the early years of the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte sought to emulate his hero, William the Conqueror, by recreating the scenes of the Bayeux Tapestry through an invasion of Britain. As Ben Evans explains in HALI 204, circumstances changed, but the result was still a commission for the historic Gobelins Manufactory - [Exhibition Review: Look at the Rugs—Find Me](https://hali.com/news/exhibition-review-look-at-the-rugs-find-me/) - To celebrate the jubilee of Swedish carpet designer Märta Måås-Fjetterström, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden initiated an exhibition of her life’s work - [Auction review: Liberté for the carpet fraternity](https://hali.com/news/auction-review-liberte-for-the-carpet-fraternity/) - An auction in Rouen, capital of Normandy, marked the lifting of many Covid-19 restrictions in France, and a case of miscataloguing and low estimates brought together the European trade hoping for bargains - [Anatomy of an object: Ainu attush robe](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-ainu-attush-robe/) - Here we reveal an exemplary Ainu ceremonial garment from Hokkaido - [Editor’s Choice: Northwest Persian Harshang Carpet](https://hali.com/news/editors-choice-northwest-persian-harshang-carpet/) - For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different. - [Undiscovered Minimalism](https://hali.com/news/mazandaran-gelim-little-known-minimal-art-from-iran-historical-and-ethnological-museum-st-gallen-28-march-18-august-2020/) - Werner Weber’s kilims from Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran are currently on show at the Historical and Ethnological Museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, until 30 January 2021. - [Editor's Choice: East-central Anatolian Rug Fragment](https://hali.com/news/editors-choice-east-central-anatolian-rug-fragment/) - For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different. - [Editor’s Choice: East Anatolian Rug](https://hali.com/news/editors-choice-east-anatolian-rug/) - For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different. - [Around the World in Tie-dye](https://hali.com/news/around-the-world-in-tie-dye/) - In HALI 201, we looked at tie-dye and other ‘shaped-resist’ textiles, which are culturally ubiquitous. - [HALI: The India Edition](https://hali.com/news/hali-the-india-edition/) - More than ever are we reminded of the interconnected nature of our world. In his editorial for HALI: The India Edition, Ben Evans muses on how this fact and its historical significance can be understood through the lens of Indian textiles. - [Three great online resources for antique carpets and textiles](https://hali.com/news/three-great-online-resources-for-antique-carpets-and-textiles/) - With most major museums across the world temporarily closed, our study and appreciation of antique carpets and textiles are forced to move online. Luckily, many institutions now have collection databases with high-resolution images and thorough catalogue entries. Here are three great resources for discovering new and old carpet and textile favourites. - [Thread of Time: A Qing Kesi Roundel and an Indian Cotton Dhurrie](https://hali.com/news/thread-of-time-a-qing-kesi-roundel-and-an-indian-cotton-dhurrie/) - In the regular HALI feature Thread of time, we connect two seemingly very different textiles through material, technique, iconography or use. In the two tapestry-woven textiles of this article, the link is the peacock. - [Anatomy of an Object: Ushak Coupled-column Prayer Rug](https://hali.com/news/ushak-coupled-column-prayer-rug/) - Contributing editor Alberto Boralevi reflects on a rare yellow-ground early ‘Transylvanian’ west Anatolian Ottoman niche rug. - [Rethreading & Retracing: Textiles and Techniques by Bita Ghezelayagh](https://hali.com/news/rethreading-retracing-textiles-and-techniques-by-bita-ghezelayagh/) - ‘Rethreading & Retracing: Textiles and Techniques by Bita Ghezelayagh' at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery in London explores the artist's long-standing interest in working with found materials such as antique carpet fragments. Deborah Freeman Fahid pays a visit. - [Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles](https://hali.com/news/unbound-visionary-women-collecting-textiles/) - Textiles assembled by seven pioneering collectors, active between 1900 and 2018, and drawn from seven public collections in the UK were the focus of the annual exhibition (25 January-19 April 2020) held at Two Temple Place on London’s Embankment. - [‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until 21 June 2020](https://hali.com/news/kimono-kyoto-to-catwalk-victoria-and-albert-museum-london-until-21-june-2020/) - Currently on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ traces the sartorial and social significance of the kimono from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and in the rest of the world. - [Asia Week New York, 12-19 March 2020](https://hali.com/news/asia-week-new-york-12-19-march-2020/) - Many exhibitions, discussions and talks are set to take place in the heart of New York City as part of the annual celebration of Asian art, Asia Week New York, 12-19 March 2020. - [Weaving beyond the Bauhaus, Art Institute of Chicago](https://hali.com/news/weaving-beyond-the-bauhaus-art-institute-of-chicago/) - Last chance to see the exhibition ‘Weaving beyond the Bauhaus’ at the Art Institute of Chicago - [LARTA The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, 21-26 January 2019](https://hali.com/news/larta-the-london-antique-rug-textile-art-fair-21-26-january-2019/) - You are invited to the 10th anniversary edition of the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA). - [A carpet for Pavlosk Palace](https://hali.com/news/a-carpet-for-pavlosk-palace/) - The commission of a Russian carpet recently sold at Christie's and how it entered Empress Maria Feodorovna’s (1759-1828) Pavlovsk Palace make for an interesting story. - [In memoriam: John Mills (1928-2019)](https://hali.com/news/in-memoriam-john-mills-1928-2019/) - It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of Dr John Mills, who had been associated with HALI since its inception in the 1970s. An organic chemist, John Mills served as Scientific Adviser at the National Gallery in London until his retirement in the 1980s and made a significant contribution to - [Textiles at Asian Art in London, 31 October-9 November 2019](https://hali.com/news/textiles-at-asian-art-in-london-31-october-9-november-2019/) - Many exhibits, discussions and talks are taking place in the heart of the British capital as part of Asian Art in London, 31 October-9 November. - ['Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace, Bolzano (Bozen)](https://hali.com/news/symbols-and-colors-in-caucasian-and-alpine-carpets-mercantile-museum-and-mercantile-palace-bolzano-bozen/) - ‘Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace in Bolzano (Bozen), exhibition review by Ben Evans from HALI 201. - [15th Sartirana Textile Show](https://hali.com/news/15th-sartirana-textile-show/) - The annual Sartirana Textile Show will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a special event in a grand historical exhibition venue in the northwest Italian city of Turin. - [Oriental Rug & Textile Society Autumn Lecture Programme](https://hali.com/news/oriental-rug-textile-society-autumn-lecture-programme/) - The ORTS Autumn Lecture Series contains three talks shedding light on antique rugs and textiles - [Roots and Growth—Contemporary Art from Turkey](https://hali.com/news/roots-and-growth-contemporary-art-from-turkey/) - An abridged exhibition review from Alberto Levi from HALI 201 – coming soon! - [HALI London](https://hali.com/news/hali-london/) - Celebrating 40 years and 200 editions of HALI magazine, HALI London was the first London festival devoted to the art and history of textiles. - [The HALI Pavilion, New York, 7-10 September 2019](https://hali.com/news/the-hali-pavilion-new-york-7-10-september-2019/) - With The HALI Pavilion, The Rug Show New York now truly covers the whole spectrum of fine handmade rugs. - [The ubiquitous ikat](https://hali.com/news/the-ubiquitous-ikat/) - We are excited to announce a new feature in the front section of HALI Magazine. 'The Common Thread' focuses on different textile types from around the world with a shared theme, either decorative or technical. In our latest issue, HALI 200, we look at ikat weavings. - [HALI Fair, Mall Galleries, 27 - 30 June 2019](https://hali.com/news/hali-fair-mall-galleries-27-30-june-2019/) - The countdown has begun to the opening of the the HALI Fair at the Mall Galleries on 27 June! This new addition to London Art Week offers the chance to view and acquire exquisite textile treasures from a whole host of highly acclaimed international dealers. - [Madge Gill: Myrninerest, William Morris Gallery](https://hali.com/news/madge-gill-myrninerest-william-morris-gallery/) - The most comprehensive survey of Madge Gill’s work to date. - [Chinese Rugs and Mats at David Sorgato Gallery](https://hali.com/news/chinese-rugs-and-mats-at-david-sorgato-gallery/) - David Sorgato’s current gallery exhibition in Milan will focus on Chinese rugs and mats. - ['IKATS, Cloths of life', Musée Bargoin](https://hali.com/news/ikats-cloths-of-life-musee-bargoin/) - An exhibition of ikats will take place at the Musée Bargoin in Clermont-Ferrand, France, from 18 May to 22 September, 2019. - ['Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road', Dallas Museum of Art](https://hali.com/news/asian-textiles-art-and-trade-along-the-silk-road/) - Drawn from Dallas Museum of Art's collection and currently on show, 'Asian Textiles: Art and Trade Along the Silk Road' has been extended until 18 August 2019. - [JAPON & JOUY / Dialogues between Sarasa and Indiennes](https://hali.com/news/japon-jouy-dialogues-sarasa-indiennes/) - 'JAPON & JOUY / Dialogues between Sarasa and Indiennes' at the Musée de la Toile de Jouy—an exhibition of Japanese textiles belonging to the private collection of Ana Berger—has been extended until 19 May 2019. - [The Seventh R.L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress](https://hali.com/news/the-seventh-r-l-shep-triennial-symposium-on-textiles-and-dress-the-power-of-pattern-in-central-asian-ikats/) - A one-day symposium exploring Central Asian ikat textiles, will be held in conjunction with the current exhibition at LACMA devoted to a generous gift from a leading local collection, that is testament to the near universal appeal of Central Asian silk ikat. - ['Multaka: Connecting Threads', at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum](https://hali.com/news/multaka-connecting-threads-oxfords-pitt-rivers-museum/) - Members of a migrant-volunteer programme in Oxford are behind a new display of textiles at the Pitt Rivers Museum. - [Fabricating the world | A Melbourne study series curated by Susan Scollay](https://hali.com/news/fabricating-the-world-study-series-curated-by-susan-scollay/) - HALI contributor, Dr Susan Scollay has curated a study series outlining the importance of textiles in the ancient world at the The Johnston Collection Museum in Melbourne. - [Traded Treasures: Indian Textiles for Global Markets](https://hali.com/news/traded-treasures-indian-textiles-global-markets/) - Currently on show at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, 'Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets', spans five hundred years of the history of India’s thriving commerce to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Japan, an exhibition that reveals why Indian textiles were in demand the world over. - [A living collection at HALI London](https://hali.com/news/living-collection-hali-london/) - Visiting Anglo-Canadian collector Bob Bell at his home in the Cotswolds, Aaron Nejad finds a passionate, experienced and well-informed man who lives surrounded by an eclectic array of rugs, and who, despite the demands of a busy professional career, always finds time to enjoy and share. The following is an abridged article from HALI 199 - coming soon! - [‘Ancient Textiles from the Andes’, at The Whitworth](https://hali.com/news/ancient-textiles-andes-whitworth/) - A special exhibition of ancient Andean textiles will be on show at The Whitworth Museum in Manchester, 29 March-15 September 2019. - [A Salor Turkmen kejebe trapping](https://hali.com/news/salor-turkmen-kejebe-trapping/) - In HALI 198, Executive Editor of HALI Daniel Shaffer examines a rare and majestic Salor Turkmen ceremonial camel trapping from a Swedish private collection that was offered for sale in December 2018 at Stockholms Auktionsverk. - [HALI Review: Zeki Muren at David Sorgato](https://hali.com/news/zeki-muren-exhibition-review/) - Milan-based antique carpet dealer David Sorgato curated the exhibition ‘Zeki Müren’s Inspiration’ at the Sartirana Textile Show, 13-16 September 2018, followed by a selling exhibition at his gallery that closed in January 2019. HALI Assistant Editor Rachel Meek reviews David Sorgato's Milan exhibition in HALI 198. - [An eye for the tigers](https://hali.com/news/an-eye-for-the-tigers/) - Exclusive rugs designed by contemporary artists take the tiger and traditional tiger rugs as inspiration—and, as Stephanie Douglas explains, aim to support the conservation of these awe-inspiring creatures. - [‘El Anatsui: Material Wonder’, October Gallery, London, opening 28 February 2019](https://hali.com/news/el-anatsui-material-wonder-october-gallery-london-opening-28-february-2019/) - The force and creative vision of West African artist El Anatsui will be celebrated at the October Gallery later this month. - [Ancient & Modern 2019, Research Prize](https://hali.com/news/ancient-modern-2019-research-prize/) - HALI and Cornucopia Magazine are pleased to announce that the 2019 applications for the Ancient & Modern Research Prize are now open. - [San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show Preview](https://hali.com/news/san-francisco-tribal-textile-art-show-preview-2/) - The annual Caskey/Lees San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show will open on 7 February at the Fort Mason Center. - [HALI London: Booking Open](https://hali.com/news/hali-london-booking-open/) - We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for the week long celebration of HALI's 200th edition and 40th year, this summer in the British capital, 24-30 June 2019. - ['Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de' Medici's Valois Tapestries', The Cleveland Museum of Art](https://hali.com/news/renaissance-splendor-catherine-de-medicis-valois-tapestries-cleveland-museum-art/) - Valois Tapestries thought to have been commissioned by Catherine de'Medici are on show at The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio until 21 January 2019. - [HALI at DOMOTEX Hannover 2019](https://hali.com/news/hali-domotex-hannover-2019/) - Join HALI magazine at DOMOTEX Hannover 2019 (11-14 January) and receive an extra 50% free on your subscription! - [New carpet galleries at the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin](https://hali.com/news/new-carpet-galleries-museum-islamic-art-berlin/) - The new carpet galleries at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin contextualise the collections while keeping its woven masterpieces centre stage. - ['Master - An Ainu Story', The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London](https://hali.com/news/master-ainu-story-brunei-gallery-soas-london/) - On show at The Brunei Gallery, SOAS in London until this Saturday 15 December, 'Master - An Ainu Story' presents photographs taken by London based photographer Adam Isfendiyar. - ['Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection', LACMA, Los Angeles](https://hali.com/news/power-pattern-central-asian-ikats-david-elizabeth-reisbord-collection-lacma-los-angeles/) - Over sixty Central Asian ikat robes and wall hangings will be exhibited at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as part of their ‘Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection’ exhibition, opening 3 February through to 28 July 2019. - ['Agnes Martin / Navajo Blankets', Pace Gallery, New York](https://hali.com/news/agnes-martin-navajo-blankets-pace-gallery-new-york/) - Paintings by Agnes Martin are exhibited alongside wearing blankets by Navajo Diné weavers in ‘Agnes Martin / Navajo Blankets’ at the Pace Gallery, New York until 21 December 2018. - [Fine Antique Oriental Rugs XIII, Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 15 December 2018](https://hali.com/news/fine-antique-oriental-rugs-xiii-austria-auction-company-vienna-15-december-2018/) - Udo Langauer’s upcoming sale of antique oriental rugs at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner saleroom in Vienna’s Singerstrasse on Saturday 15 December 2018 includes quality rugs from the excellent collection of the late Theo Häberli. - [‘The Fabric of India’, Cincinnati Art Museum, closing 6 January 2019](https://hali.com/news/fabric-india-cincinnati-art-museum-closing-6-january-2019/) - 'The Fabric of India', co-curated by Rosemary Crill, is on show at Cincinnati Art Museum until 6 January 2019. The US show is based on the 2015-2016 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition featuring two-hundred handmade Indian textiles from the fifteenth century to today. - [Collector Carpets at Henry's, Mutterstadt, 8 December 2018](https://hali.com/news/collector-carpets-henrys-mutterstadt-8-december-2018/) - Henry’s Auktionshaus will be offering a selection of 416 lots at their special winter auction, 'Collector Carpets' on 8 December 2018. - [Cotsen Collections donated to George Washington University and The Textile Museum](https://hali.com/news/cotsen-collections-donated-to-gwutm/) - The Washington Textile Museum, now part of the US capital’s George Washington University, has received a $18.4 million gift of more than 4,000 textiles, together with purpose-built cabinetry and an endowment, from the 1985 Trust set up by Lloyd Cotsen, former CEO of Neutrogena. - [‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’, Christie’s London, 25 October](https://hali.com/news/art-of-the-islamic-and-indian-worlds-christies-london-25-october/) - At Christie's in London on 25 October, the all-encompassing ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ sale includes more than eighty other rugs and carpets, from most time periods and weaving cultures. - ['The art of kilims'](https://hali.com/news/the-art-of-kilims/) - The current major exhibition at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington DC, 'A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia' on view until 23 December, features 18th- and 19th-century Anatolian kilims entrusted to the museum by Murad Megalli’s family. - [‘Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles’](https://hali.com/news/balance-opposition-ancient-peruvian-textiles/) - Deborah Spivak reports on ‘Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles’, an exhibition of works from the St Louis Art Museum’s impressive collection of Andean textiles. - [LARTA The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, 22-27 January 2019](https://hali.com/news/the-london-antique-rug-textile-art-fair-22-27-january-2019/) - LARTA, The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, a celebration of colour and design in antique rug and textile art from 22-27 January 2019. - ['Anni Albers', Tate Modern, London](https://hali.com/news/anni-albers-tate-modern-london/) - The UK's first major retrospective of the work of Anni Albers (1899-1994) is now on show at the Tate Modern in London until 27 January 2019. Exhibits range from the Bauhaus artist’s small-scale ‘pictorial weavings’ to wall-hangings and source material for her influential publication 'On Weaving' from 1965. - ['Major Autumn Auction', Rippon Boswell & Co., Wiesbaden, 17 November 2018](https://hali.com/news/major-autumn-auction-rippon-boswell-co-wiesbaden-17-november-2018/) - Rippon Boswell & Co. will auction 273 lots including rugs belonging to the private collections of Dr. Harald Böhmer as well as Dr. Günther Rapp, at the Major Autumn Auction in Wiesbaden on 17 November 2018. - [Safavid number games in Sarajevo](https://hali.com/news/safavid-number-games-sarajevo/) - In HALI 195 of Spring 2018, Fatima Žutić reports on the long-unseen but often-mentioned 17th-century Kerman ‘vase technique’ carpet fragments, revealed to the public in February of this year at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Williamsburg and on show until February 2019. - [Asian Art in London](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-in-london-1-10-november-2018/) - The annual celebration of Asian art taking place in the British capital, 1-10 November, has much to offer in terms of textiles. - ['A Collection of Collections', Sotheby's London, 6 November](https://hali.com/news/a-collection-of-collections-sothebys-london-6-november/) - Sotheby’s London sale on 6 November is led by a group of twenty-three carpets from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid. The consignment includes a handful of classical Ushak, Esfahan and Caucasian rugs and fragments, as well as some particularly good Chinese and East Turkestan rugs. - ['Antique Textile Art I', Galleria Battilossi, Turin](https://hali.com/news/antique-textile-art-galleria-battilossi-turin/) - Galleria Battilossi have opened a new showroom in Turin with an inaugural 'Antique Textile Art I' exhibition of exceptional antique textiles from a prominent private collection. - ['Under the Night Sky', Albertz Benda & Friedman Benda, New York](https://hali.com/news/night-sky-albertz-benda-friedman-benda-new-york/) - Spanning the spaces of Friedman Benda and Albertz Benda in New York, 'Under the Night Sky' will run until 15 December 2018. The show explores the numerous ways in which the frontier of the night sky influences the human psyche and continues to hold artists in its grip. - ['Oceania', Royal Academy of Arts, London](https://hali.com/news/oceania-at-the-ra-opening-29-september-2018/) - 'Oceania' will open this Saturday 29 September and run until 10 December at the Royal Academy of Arts, to mark the RA's 250th anniversary. This exhibition will be the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the United Kingdom. - [Full house at Austria Auction Company](https://hali.com/news/full-house-at-austria-auctions/) - Austria Auction Company’s sale in Vienna and online at Liveauctioneers on Saturday 29 September, comprising many excellent lots from the estate of the Swiss collector Theo Haeberli and from other European collections, produced an outstanding result for the auctioneers, - [‘A Conversation on Bizarre Silks and Ikat Traditions’](https://hali.com/news/a-conversation-on-bizarre-silks-and-ikat-traditions/) - In conjunction with New York Textile Month, Yosi Barzilai and Lidewij Edelkoort will present ‘A Conversation on Bizarre Silks and Ikat Traditions’ at Barzilai’s Soho gallery, Sarajo on 27 September. - [Tomorrow's Tigers](https://hali.com/news/tomorrows-tigers/) - Last week at Sotheby's, patron Lily Cole introduced Tomorrow's Tigers - the WWF World Wide Fund for Nature’s new fundraising project in support of the TX2 goal—a global commitment to double tiger numbers in the wild by 2022. - [Sartirana Textile Show](https://hali.com/news/sartirana-textile-show/) - A selection of antique rug and textile galleries exhibited at Sartirana Textile Show, La Pila, Lomellina, 13-16 September 2018. - ['Armenia!' at The Met, opening 22 September 2018](https://hali.com/news/armenia-at-the-met-opening-22-september-2018/) - Opening 22 September at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and running until 13 January 2019, Armenia! explores the arts and culture of Armenians, from their conversion to Christianity in the early fourth century, through to their leading role in international trade in the 17th century. - [Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 29 September](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-vienna-29-september/) - The Austria Auction Company sale at Palais Breuner in Vienna (and online through Live Auctioneers) on Saturday 29 September 2018 comprises 212 lots of mainly collectible rugs offered at very accessible starting prices. Here are some select highlights. - [Anatomy of an Object: A ‘Lotto’ Arabesque Rug](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-a-lotto-arabesque-rug/) - This dynamic Anatolian ‘Lotto’ rug was a gift from James F. Ballard to the Saint Louis Art Museum. Here we look at the characteristics of the type. - [From HALI 196: Dynamics of a Dynasty](https://hali.com/news/from-hali196-dynamics-of-a-dynasty/) - A fresh approach turned a recent French exhibition on Qajar culture into something more than just an art show. Venetia Porter was at the Louvre-Lens to experience the transformation. Hadi Maktabi comments on the carpets. - [Anatomy of an Object: Opus Anglicanum Panels](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-opus-anglicanum-panels/) - Clare Browne tells the story of a set of 14th-century needlework panels with scenes from the Life of the Virgin. - [Anatomy of an Object: A Phulkari Embroidery](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-object-phulkari-embroidery/) - The silk embroidered shawls of the Punjab combine the aesthetic of folk art with the rich varied silk hues of precious luxury. Ben Evans reveals the techniques and traditions lying below the surface of these vibrant textiles. - [Anatomy of an Object: Afshar ‘Tulip’ Rug](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-afshar-tulip-rug/) - A small Afshar rug from the Corwin Collection is dissected by Thomas Cole. - [Indigo Sutra](https://hali.com/news/indigo-sutra-2017/) - The cultivation of indigo dye across the Indian subcontinent is growing. Here Jenny Balfour Paul recounts her experience at Indigo Sutra, an international event on the revival and resurgence of natural indigo held in Kolkata. - [Anatomy of an Object: A Baharlu/Ainalu Carpet](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-a-baharluainalu-carpet/) - Although unsigned, this grand Khamseh Confederacy carpet, of unusually large size and great artistic merit, was likely made for a tribal khan by a weaver of the Baharlu or Ainalu tribes. - [Anatomy of an Object: Tushetian Kilim](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-tushetian-kilim/) - A striking kilim recently offered by Istanbul dealer Şeref Özen is typical of 19th-century flatweaves from the mountainous region of Tusheti in northeast Georgia. Rachel Meek investigates. - [From HALI 195: Mirror Image](https://hali.com/news/mirror-image/) - Spanish carpets and Spanish ceilings: John Mills weaves together the strands of a story prompted by the reappearance at an auction of a fragment of a late 15th-century Mudéjar carpet - ['Treasure Ships' Art in Australia](https://hali.com/news/treasure-ships-art-in-australia/) - 'Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices' is the first exhibition of art in Australia to present the artistic and cultural interactions between Europe & Asia from the 16th - 19th centuries, the 'Age of Spices' - [Royal Hawaiian Featherwork, de Young Museum](https://hali.com/news/royal-hawaiian-featherwork-de-young-museum/) - A major exhibition of royal Hawaiian featherwork will be on show at San Francisco's de Young Museum from 29 August 2015 – 28 February 2016 - [HALI in London: Blythe House](https://hali.com/news/hali-in-london-blythe-house/) - A selection of details from the Persian carpets and Indian textiles at Blythe House. - [Gallery: HALI Returns to Olympia](https://hali.com/news/gallery-hali-returns-to-olympia/) - A selection of snapshots from the first few days of HALI at Olympia, London, 18-28 June 2015. - [Asian Art in Brussels 2015](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-in-brussels-2015/) - Asian Art in Brussels (AAB) will take place 10-14 June 2015 in the Belgian capital in conjunction with Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF) and Brussels non-European Art Fair (BRUNEAF). - [Preview: Rippon Boswell, 13 June 2015](https://hali.com/news/preview-rippon-boswell-13-june-2015/) - Highlights from the upcoming Rippon Boswell auction. - [HALI at Olympia, 18-28 June 2015](https://hali.com/news/hali-at-olympia-18-28-june-2015/) - HALI returns to the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in London with a select group of exhibitors and a series of curated talks. Download your complimentary ticket here. - [Woven Tales at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia](https://hali.com/news/woven-tales-at-gallery-moshe-tabibnia/) - Tapestries and embroideries from the most prominent textile centres of Europe are surveyed in a new exhibition and publication by Gallery Moshe Tabibnia. - [Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 9 May 2015](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-vienna-9-may-2015/) - Music producer and Turkmen rug collector Kurt Munkacsi's collection comes under the hammer in Vienna this May. - [HALI in London, 23 – 26 June 2015](https://hali.com/news/olympia/) - This summer, HALI returns to the Olympia Antiques Fair 18 – 28 June 2015. HALI in London is a special series of visits, talks and events 23 - 26 June 2015. - [Oriental Rugs and Carpets at Christie's, London](https://hali.com/news/oriental-rugs-and-carpets-at-christies-london/) - As part of London’s Islamic Art Week, Christie’s will hold an Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction on Tuesday 21 April in their King Street salerooms. Highlights include an early Mongol kilim, a Bukhara saf fragment and an Ottoman Cairene carpet. - [Decorative Arts of Iberia Tour May 2015](https://hali.com/news/decorative-arts-iberia-tour-may-2015/) - HALI launches the first in a series of cultural tours in association with Martin Randall Travel: The Decorative Arts of Iberia Tour, 19 - 31 May 2015 - [Suzanis shine in Rippon Boswell's first Vok sale](https://hali.com/news/suzanis-shine-in-rippon-boswells-first-vok-sale/) - The first of three single owner auctions to offer the collection of Ignazio Vok took place at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 11 April 2015. Daniel Shaffer reports. - [Ellsworth sales: 100% for the King of Ming](https://hali.com/news/ellsworth-sales-100-for-the-king-of-ming/) - During Asian Art Week in New York, from 17 March to 21 March 2015, some two thousand works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and European art from the collection of the late American scholar, dealer and connoisseur, Robert Hatfield Ellis (a.k.a. ‘The King of Ming’) were sold in a series of six auctions - [Vok Collection: Selection 1 Auction](https://hali.com/news/vok-collection-selection-1-auction/) - The Vok Collection: Selection 1 auction will take place on 11 April 2015 at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden. - [Austria Auction Company Online Sale](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-online-sale/) - Austria Auction Company will be holding an online sale of rugs and kilims on 18 April, a first for the auction house. - [Oriental Rugs & Carpets at Skinner](https://hali.com/news/oriental-rugs-carpets-at-skinner/) - Skinner's Boston sale of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets on March 28th, assembled by Lawrence Kearney, features more than 300 lots of antique rugs, carpets, and textiles from most major areas of the 'Rug Belt'. - [British Antique Dealers Association (BADA) 2015](https://hali.com/news/british-antique-dealers-association-bada-2015/) - BADA Fair at The Duke of York Square is a showcase for members of the British Antique Dealers’ Association, taking place in London 18–24 March 2015 - [Antique Rugs at LARTA 2015](https://hali.com/news/antique-rugs-at-larta-2015/) - The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair returns to The Showroom on Penfold Street for the fifth year 16 – 19 April 2015. - [The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky](https://hali.com/news/the-plains-indians-artists-of-earth-and-sky/) - ‘The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky’, a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases the power and continuity of the art of Native American people of the Plains region. - [Peter Pap at Mark Keshishian & Sons](https://hali.com/news/peter-pap-at-mark-keshishian-sons/) - Peter Pap Oriental Rugs will be holding a special exhibition and sale of antique rugs, bags and trappings at Mark Keshishian & Sons on 20-22 March, to coincide with the opening of the new Textile Museum in Washington DC. - [New York Asia Week: An Early Mongol Kilim at Christie’s](https://hali.com/news/new-york-asia-week-an-early-mongol-kilim-at-christies/) - On view at Rockefeller Center throughout New York Asia Week 2015 is an extraordinary, and apparently unique, Central Asian or Chinese woollen kilim. - [Bausback at TEFAF](https://hali.com/news/bausback-tefaf/) - Specialist oriental and collector’s carpet company, Franz Bausback of Mannheim are to show an important South German antique carpet collection at TEFAF Maastricht, 13 – 33 March 2015. - [TEFAF, Maastricht 2015](https://hali.com/news/tefaf-maastricht-2015/) - Two hundred and seventy five of the world’s most prestigious art and antiques dealers will gather at TEFAF Maastricht, 13 -22 March 2015. - [Shifting Patterns: Pacific barkcloth at the British Museum](https://hali.com/news/shifting-patterns-pacific-barkcloth-british-museum/) - Until 16 August 2015, a selection of barkcloth textiles from the Pacific region is on view at the British Museum. Used to wrap, drape and adorn the body in a myriad of styles and designs, these textiles demonstrate the long history of barkcloth, and its ongoing relevance today. - [The Fabric of India at the V&A](https://hali.com/news/fabric-india-va/) - The Victoria and Albert Museum have announced a major textile exhibition. The Fabric of India, supported by Good Earth will present 200 handmade objects that will celebrate the variety, virtuosity and incomparable richness of India’s textile traditions, 3 October 2015 - 10 January 2016. - [Afghan War Rugs Come to Berlin](https://hali.com/news/afghan-war-rugs-come-berlin/) - From 26 February to 20 March 2015, Wild Teppich- und Textilkunst in Berlin-Mitte will show selected Afghan war rugs, woven in the period between the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s through to almost the present day. These rugs shock through juxtaposing the beauty of traditional crafts and war-related imagery. - [The Sultan’s World. The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art](https://hali.com/news/sultans-world-ottoman-orient-renaissance-art/) - 'The Sultan’s World', an exhibition at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, sees the Ottoman Orient interpreted in the works of western Renaissance masters. - [African Textiles in Dallas](https://hali.com/news/african-textiles-dallas/) - Add to, Take Away: Artistry and Innovation in African Textiles is showing at Dallas Museum of Art to 6 December 2015 - [Embroidered Americana Set to Make a Million in Boston](https://hali.com/news/embroidered-americana-set-make-million-boston/) - Skinner’s Boston sale of ‘American Furniture and Decorative Arts' on 1 March 2015 features a highly important example of early American needlework that is expected to sell for a sum in the region of $1million. - [ARTIC Unveils New Islamic Galleries](https://hali.com/news/artic-unveils-new-islamic-galleries/) - The Art Institute of Chicago has unveiled its new galleries for Islamic art, meaning that the museum’s permanent collection is back on show for the first time since 2012. - [San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show Preview](https://hali.com/news/san-francisco-tribal-textile-art-show-preview/) - The annual Caskey/Lees San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show opens tonight in the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason with the customary Gala. - [San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show 2015](https://hali.com/news/san-francisco-tribal-textile-art-show-2015/) - A gallery album of selected highlights photographed on the opening evening of the 2015 San Francisco Tribal and Textile Arts Show. - [Needlework from the Nutt Collection](https://hali.com/news/needlework-nutt-collection/) - The collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt, including several pieces of important needlework, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, New York on 23 January. - ['Sacred Traditions of the Himalayas'](https://hali.com/news/sacred-traditions-himalayas-metropolitan-museum-art/) - A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Sacred Traditions of the Himalayas’, engages with devotional practices across a region encompassing modern Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. - [European Tapestry Exhibition, Vilnius](https://hali.com/news/european-tapestry-exhibition-vilnius/) - A major exhibition of European Medieval and Renaissance tapestries is showing at the National Museum - Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius to 18 January 2015. Extract from a review featured in HALI 182. - [BRAFA 2015](https://hali.com/news/brafa-2015/) - BRAFA Art Fair returns to Brussels, 24 January – 1 February 2015, marking the fair's 60th anniversary. - [Woven Connections by Samyama](https://hali.com/news/woven-connections-samyama/) - ‘Woven Connections’, a selling exhibition by Samyama, will take place at Woo Gallery in Chiangmai on 18 to 22 January 2015. Here we select some of the highlights. - [Battersea Decorative Fair, Winter 2015](https://hali.com/news/battersea-decorative-fair-2015-battersea-park/) - Visitors are greeted by a cosy Alpine retreat in the foyer and a warm and welcoming atmosphere throughout, at the latest edition of the Battersea Decorative Fair, 20 - 25 January 2015. 145 exhibitors offer a wide array of antiques and vintage items aimed specifically at the interior design market, displayed in appealing and approachable - [HALI Tour to Spain & Portugal](https://hali.com/news/hali-tour-spain-portugal/) - In May 2015, HALI is leading a rug and textile tour to Spain and Portugal in partnership with Martin Randall. - [Churchill's 'The Tapestries at Blenheim' sold at Sotheby's](https://hali.com/news/tapestries-blenheim/) - ‘Daughter of History: Mary Soames and the Legacy of Churchill’, Sotheby’s white glove sale, featured an intriguing painting of the tapestry room at Blenheim Palace. - [Baluchar Silks of Bengal, Mumbai](https://hali.com/news/baluchar-silks-bengal-mumbai/) - The exhibition ‘Sahib, Bibi, Nawab: Baluchar Silks of Bengal 1750–1900’ is at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai, 12 December 2014 to 11 January 2015. - [Burrell Collection's Wagner garden carpet exhibited at Bonhams in London](https://hali.com/news/burrell-collection-wagner-garden-carpet-bonhams/) - The Burrell Collection’s Wagner garden carpet is one of 50 highlights from the esteemed Glasgow collection on show at Bonhams New Bond Street showrooms, London, 15 December 2014 – 9 January 2015. - [Textiles by Samiro Yunoki, Musée Guimet, Paris](https://hali.com/news/textiles-samiro-yunoki-musee-guimet-paris/) - Le danse de forms – Textiles de Samiro Yunoki is showing at Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris to 12 January 2015. The exhibition marks the entry of 72 mainly textile works into the museum’s collection, that have been donated by the artist. - [High-Flying Dragon carpet](https://hali.com/news/wanli-carpet-world-record-cny-111214/) - A new mark for a Chinese carpet was set at Christie’s in New York on 11 December 2014, one of six world auction records set during the 'Exceptional Sale', by this Wanli period Ming Imperial double dragon carpet fragment. The carpet sold to an anonymous buyer within its $600-800,000 estimate for $665,000. A complete large - [Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection at Christie’s](https://hali.com/news/robert-hatfield-ellsworth-collection-christies/) - The collection of Robert Hatfield Ellis will be sold at Christie's in March 2015. The distinguished connoisseur, dubbed the 'King of Ming by the New York Times, passed away in August 2014. - [Rippon Boswell goes Live](https://hali.com/news/rippon-boswell-goes-live/) - Rippon Boswell’s Major Autumn Sale in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 29th November 2014 was auctioneer Detlef Maltzahn’s first venture into the world of real-time online bidding through liveauctioneers.com. - [Embroidered Thangka Sold for Record $45 Million](https://hali.com/news/embroidered-thangka-sold-record-45-million/) - An imperial embroidered thangka has sold for an unprecedented $45,157,824 (HK$348,440,000) to a Chinese collector at Christie’s Hong Kong. - ['Carpet' by Amos Gitai at Palazzo Reale, Milan](https://hali.com/news/amos-gitai-palazzo-reale/) - The exhibition ‘Strade/Ways’ about the work of noted Israeli film director Amos Gitai will open at Palazzo Reale, Milan on 2 December 2014. The display features a selection of extraordinary rugs related to his upcoming film 'Carpet'. - [Rossi & Rossi London Gallery Move](https://hali.com/news/rossi-rossi-london-gallery-move/) - Rossi & Rossi, leading dealers in South Asian art, will reopen on 4 December in new premises at 27 Dover Street in London. - [Ming Imperial Dragon Carpet at Christie's, NY](https://hali.com/news/cny-dragon-carpet/) - Lot 8 in 'The Exceptional Sale' at Christie's in New York on 11 December 2014 is a rare Ming imperial double-dragon carpet. - [Carpets and Asian Art at Van Ham, Cologne](https://hali.com/news/carpets-asian-art-van-ham-cologne/) - On 5 December, 2014, the first sale of ‘Carpets and Tapestries’ to be held at Cologne auctioneer Van Ham’s new location at 2 Hitzelerstrasse, will include an outstanding early 18th century silk carpet from the Tarim Basin in Eastern Turkestan (modern Xinjiang). This rare small carpet features a pink-coloured ground decorated with exquisitely formed yellow-gold - [100 Kelims, Volkspark Halle](https://hali.com/news/100-kelims-volkspark-halle/) - An album of photographs of the opening evening of the exhibition '100 Kelims: The Hamid Sadighi Neiriz Collection' in Halle, Germany, where the century-old Volkspark exhibition hall, part of the city of Halle's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, long associated with textile education, offered an ideal, high-ceilinged location in which to expose an art-aware young - [Threads of Devotion at Nara National Museum](https://hali.com/news/threads-of-devotion-at-nara-national-museum/) - A special exhibition commemorating the completion of conservation work ‘Threads of Devotion, National Treasure: The Taima Mandala Tapestry and Embroidered Buddhist Imagery’ opened at the Nara National Museum on 14 July and will be on show until 26 August 2018. - [Anatomy of an Object: A Flemish Tapestry](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-a-flemish-tapestry/) - ‘Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance’ currently showing at The Met uses the currency of cows to illustrate the expense of tapestries at the time of their manufacture. Rachel Meek discusses the exhibition’s concept and sole tapestry with curator Elizabeth Cleland. - [Anatomy of an Object: Chinese Carpet, Late Ming Period](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-chinese-carpet-late-ming-period/) - A structural uniformity is disguised by apparent randomness caused by the extensive colour range used in the field of this classical carpet in the Beijing Palace Museum - [Undiscovered Minimalism: Mazandaran kilims at Böhmler, Munich](https://hali.com/news/undiscovered-minimalism-kelims-bohmler-munich/) - 'Undiscovered Minimalism', a selling exhibition at Böhmler, Munich shows the kelim collection of Werner Weber in Europe for the first time. - [Woven Languages: Ikat Textiles in Lisbon](https://hali.com/news/woven-languages-ikat-textiles-lisbon/) - Woven Languages: Indonesian Ikat Textiles from the Peter ten Hoopen Collection has just opened at the Museo do Oriente, Lisbon, 23 October 2014–25 January 2015. - [Asian Art in London](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-london/) - In its 17th year Asian Art in London will once again make the city the focus of the international Asian art market when it launches at the British Museum on 30 October 2014 with a Gala party and private view of the current exhibition, Ming – 50 Years that Changed China. Antique and contemporary art, ceramics - [Rare Uli Figure at Auctionata](https://hali.com/news/rare-uli-figure-auctionata/) - A rare Uli figure, formerly in the collection of Maurice de Vlaminck, is the star of Auctionata’s upcoming online auction. - [Ming: 50 years that changed China](https://hali.com/news/ming-50-years-changed-china/) - From 18 September - 5 January 2015, the British Museum will present Ming: 50 years that changed China in the new Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery - [Raw Japan: Boro Blues in Lisbon](https://hali.com/news/raw-japan-boro-mude-lisbon/) - This autumn Japanese Boro patchwork robes and textiles are seen to be taking centre stage in Portugal. Two exhibitions focussing on Japanese culture and design are showing at the Museu do Design e da Moda (MUDE), Lisbon under the title RAW JAPAN, 10 October to 8 February 2015. - [War Rugs from Afghanistan at MART](https://hali.com/news/war-rugs-afghanistan-mart/) - As part of its cultural programme for the centenary of the First World War, MART is exhibiting 50 war rugs from Afghanistan at the Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Rovereto. - [Tribal textiles meet modern design in Madrid](https://hali.com/news/tribal-textiles-meet-modern-design-madrid/) - Jose Luis Herrero, owner of Spanish textile gallery, Estudio H is holding an exhibition of ’13 Textiles for The Contemporary Home’ at Galeria espacioBRUT, Madrid, 18 October – 12 November 2014. Herrero’s great passion for tribal textile art has driven him to present objects in decontextualised, contemporary settings that highlight and accentuate their inherent beauty. - [Near record price achieved for Caucasian Dragon Carpet at Sotheby's](https://hali.com/news/world-record-dragon-carpet-sothebys/) - Lot 160, a large section of a historic Caucasian Dragon carpet fetched a very high price for it's type at Sotheby's sale of ‘Important English and European Decorative Arts’ this week. Selling at $149,000 against an estimate of $30-50,000 on 22 October in New York. - [Volkmann-Treffen 2014, Berlin](https://hali.com/news/volkmann-treffen-2014-berlin/) - This weekend, 24 – 26 October the annual Volkmann-Treffen 2014 will take place in Berlin. This year the topic is tents, inspired by the Türckische Cammer in Dresden. - [Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam 2014](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-fair-amsterdam-2014/) - This weekend, 23–26 October 2014, sees twenty dealers from the Netherlands and abroad gather in the cloisters of De Duif Church on the Prinsengracht for Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam 2014. - [San Francisco ARTS Postscript](https://hali.com/news/arts-postscript/) - In the world of antique rugs and textile art, the events of the past week in San Francisco may have heralded the dawn of a new reality, and not an unpleasant or perilous one at all. With the slow registration of dealers in attendance at ARTS, there were fears for the future of the show - [‘Ages of Sarasa’ at Fukuoka Art Museum](https://hali.com/news/ages-sarasa-fukuoka-art-museum/) - Click here for a selection of images from the exhibition. - [ARTS San Francisco - on with the show!](https://hali.com/news/arts-san-francisco-update/) - The rugs and textiles speak for themselves at ARTS, the annual multi-dealer show at the Capri Motel in San Francisco’s Marina District (the show ends today, Sunday 19th October). Each year more than 40 American and international dealers travel here in order to rent rooms at the 3-story motel, hanging their rugs on the walls or piling them - [ARTS in detail](https://hali.com/news/san-francisco-arts-album/) - [PAD London](https://hali.com/news/pad-london/) - PAD London, 15 - 19 October 2014 in Berkeley Square successfully combines modern art, design and decorative arts, with many interesting carpets, textiles and works of tribal art on view. - [Ottoman Art Exhibition Video](https://hali.com/news/ottoman-art-exhibition-video/) - Watch the video HALI produced for 'Arte Ottomana 1450-1600. Natura e Astrazione: uno sguardo sulla Sublime Porta' - [Jewish Embroidered Hangings at Waddesdon Manor](https://hali.com/news/jewish-embroidered-hangings-waddesdon-manor/) - Saved for the nation: Acquisition of Jewish embroidered hangings by the Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, 26 March 2014-25 October 2015. - [Museum openings around the world](https://hali.com/news/museum-openings-baku-geneva-milan/) - New museums in Toronto, Geneva, Milan and Baku - [Gail Martin Gallery Moves](https://hali.com/news/gail-martin-gallery-move/) - Gail Martin has relocated her textile art showroom to her spacious apartment just four blocks away from the previous Gail Martin Gallery location on Riverside Drive, New York. - [Hazara Gallery Auction Co. Inaugural Sale](https://hali.com/news/hazara-gallery-auction-co-inaugural-sale/) - The first sale at the Hazara Gallery Auction Co. takes place at 11 am on 18 October 2014, here we present a selection of highlights. - [Light on Persia exhibition at Thomas Cole](https://hali.com/news/light-persia-exhibition-thomas-cole/) - Light on Persia, an exhibition of tribal Persian weavings will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole in California 14 October – 1 December 2014. - [Oriental Rugs from Canadian Collections](https://hali.com/news/oriental-rugs-canadian-collections/) - From Ashgabat to Istanbul opens at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto 8 October 2014 to 19 April 2015. The following is taken from an overview of the exhibition by the Curator, Natalia Nekrassova, read it in full in HALI issue 181. - [Flemish Renaissance Tapestry in New York](https://hali.com/news/flemish-renaissance-tapestries-new-york/) - Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance is on 8 October 2014 to 11 January 2015 in the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. - [Peabody Essex buys Dutch Chintz collection](https://hali.com/news/peabody-essex-acquires-chintz-collection/) - The historic Massachusetts seaport of Salem is perhaps best known for the Witch Trials of 1692, brought to life in Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible. However, these days the city is also home to the Peabody Essex Museum, which holds a world-renowned Asian export art collection offering particular insight into 18th-century textile design, production - [Feller Collection endowed to Ashmolean](https://hali.com/news/feller-collection-endowed-ashmolean/) - Sixty-one pieces of 17th century English embroidery have been gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by local residents, Micheál and Elizabeth Feller. - [LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair returns to Mayfair](https://hali.com/news/lapada-art-antiques-fair-returns-mayfair/) - The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair returns to the leafy surroundings of Berkeley Square, London, from Wednesday 24 - Sunday 28 September 2014. - [Carpets fly at Austria Auction Company](https://hali.com/news/carpets-fly-austria-auction-company/) - Initial highlights of the sold lots in Austria Auction Company's 'Fine Antique Oriental Rugs' sale on Tuesday 16 September 2014, including a world record breaking price for a Salor Turkmen main carpet, and one of the highest sums ever paid for a classical Caucasian carpet at auction - [Christie's Oriental Rugs and Carpets, Autumn 2014](https://hali.com/news/christies-oriental-rugs-carpets/) - Christie's autumn sales in London begins on 1 October 2014 in South Kensington in their European Noble and Private Collections Part II sale, with the Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale on 7 October 2014 at the King Street saleroom - [Austria Auction Company presents Fine Antique Oriental Rugs III](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-presents-fine-antique-oriental-rugs-iii/) - The third instalment of Austria Auction Company's Fine Antique Oriental Rugs will return on Tuesday 16 September 2014 at 2pm at the Novomatic Forum, Vienna. - [10th Sartirana Textile Show](https://hali.com/news/10th-sartirana-textile-show/) - Held in a picturesque 14th century castle and the old rice mill, La Pila, Sartirana’s tenth anniversary brings together an abundance of rug and textile exhibitors. - [TKF/ICOC Tour Preview Vienna – Budapest](https://hali.com/news/icoc-tour-preview-vienna-budapest/) - From 15 – 21 September 2014 the ICOC Tour Vienna - Budapest takes place, organised by the International Conference on Carpets (ICOC) in conjunction with the Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research-TKF. - [Art from Indonesia and New Guinea at Yale University](https://hali.com/news/art-indonesia-new-guinea-yale-university/) - Taking place until 1 February 2015, East of the Wallace Line: Monumental Art from Indonesia and New Guinea at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven - [Buddhist Kesa in Basel](https://hali.com/news/buddhist-kesa-basel/) - The Museum de Kulturen, Basel is marking the occasion of “150 years of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Switzerland” with an exhibition of kesa, ‘The Buddhist Monk’s Robe’, 22 August - 22 March 2015. - [Fowler at UCLA: Timor Weavings](https://hali.com/news/fowler-ucla-timor/) - The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea opens 7 September 2014 until 4 January 2015 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion. - [Parcours des Mondes 2014](https://hali.com/news/parcours-des-mondes-2014/) - The international tribal art fair, Parcours Des Mondes, will return for its thirteenth year from 9-14 September 2014, spanning the Saint-Germain-des-Près neighbourhood in Paris. - [Tribal Art London](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-london/) - Tribal Art London launches at The Mall Galleries, London 10-13 September 2014 - [Tribal Art London](https://hali.com/news/first-day-tribal-art-london/) - Tribal Art London opened on 11 September at the Mall Galleries, visitors can view fine examples of tribal art there until 13 September. - [Fowler at UCLA: South African Embroidery](https://hali.com/news/fowler-ucla-south-africa-embroidery/) - The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Witness: Embroidery as History in Post Apartheid South Africa, 7 September – 7 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion. - [Carpet Museum opens in Baku](https://hali.com/news/carpet-museum-opens-baku/) - On August 26 2014 an official opening ceremony was held for the new building to house the Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpets in Baku. The construction at the Seaside National Park has been six years in the making, with the foundation being laid in May 2008. The five storey structure designed by Austrian architect Franz - [Oriental Rugs from the Gerard Paquin Collection, MFA, Boston](https://hali.com/news/oriental-rugs-gerard-paquin-collection/) - This small loan exhibition in the rotunda at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston focuses on rugs and bags made in nomadic and village environments from West Anatolia to Persia and Central Asia - [Fowler at UCLA: Ghana Prints](https://hali.com/news/textile-show-hat-trick-fowler-la/) - The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Fowler in Focus: Yards of Style, African Print Cloths of Ghana, 24 August 14 December 2014 is one of three textile exhibitions to mark the occasion. - [In Memoriam: David M. Reuben, 1941-2014](https://hali.com/news/david-reuben/) - London-based oriental carpet collector/dealer David Reuben, especially well known among the Turkmen rug collecting community, died on 25 April 2014 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. David was born in Basra in 1941, leaving Iraq in 1958 to study chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Then, after three years in the US Army, - [Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation in Toronto](https://hali.com/news/archeology-textiles-preservation-textile-museum-canada/) - How have textiles – among the most fragile and vulnerable artefacts – survived over the centuries? This is a question of great significance to the Textile Museum curators, who last year began to research and develop new ways to conserve and store archaeological textiles. - [Image conscious: textiles and photographs of India](https://hali.com/news/tc-summer-exhibit/) - Richard Mull writes: San Rafael’s Tom Cole is well known to the rug and textile world for his writings on, among other things, Tibetan, Baluch, Turkmen, and other Central Asian material. His photographic talents, however, have been underappreciated. Given his eye for the beauty and colour of woven art, this second string to his bow - [Bolivian Aymara ponchos at Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe](https://hali.com/news/balandran-ponchos-in-los-angelestextiles/) - During the 1970s, Giles W. Mead, then director of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, collected an exemplary group of twenty Balandrán ponchos from Bolivia. It is soon to be offered at the William Siegal Gallery in New Mexico. - [St. Frank Framed Textiles](https://hali.com/news/st-frank-framed-textiles/) - San Francisco based St. Frank are championing the placement of textiles on walls with their range of ready framed pieces from around the world - [Brussels Art Square](https://hali.com/news/brussels-art-square/) - 26 – 27 September 2014 Brussels Art Square will welcome a select group of art dealers and galleries from England to exhibit alongside twelve residents of the Sablon. - [Cairo under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles in Toronto](https://hali.com/news/cairo-wraps-early-islamic-textiles-toronto/) - The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Cairo under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, on view until 25 January 2015, features nearly 80 rare fabrics. - [British Folk Art at Tate Britain](https://hali.com/news/british-folk-art-tate-britain/) - British folk art- an elusive and often overlooked artistic genre is given high art status at Tate Britain. - [The Eye of the Needle](https://hali.com/news/eye-needle/) - English embroideries from the Feller collection go on public display for the first time from 1 August to 12 October 2014 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. - [Textiles from the Indus Valley at The David Collection](https://hali.com/news/textiles-indus-valley-david-collection/) - Block Prints from the Indus Valley – Textiles collected by Lisette Kampmann in the 1980s, on exhibit until 31 August 2014 - [Meisen Kimono in LA](https://hali.com/news/kimono-la/) - The spectacular exhibition, Kimono for a Modern Age, at The Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a must for anyone interested in design and textiles. Open until 9 October, this is one of eight exhibitions celebrating the 25th anniversary of the pavilion designed by American architect Bruce Goff (1904–1982). Sharon S. - [Alexander Calder Tapestries](https://hali.com/news/alexander-calder-tapestries/) - The Musée d’Art modern et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), France is showing fifty works by Alexander Calder to 7 September 2014, the Jane Kahan Gallery, New York has original Calder tapestries for sale. - [In Memoriam: Governor Victor Atiyeh (1923-2014)](https://hali.com/news/memoriam-governor-victor-atiyeh-1923-2014/) - Victor George Atiyeh, who died in Portland, Oregon on 20 July 2014, was born in the city in February 1923 to Syrian immigrant parents. He took over the family business, Atiyeh Brothers rug and carpet store after his father’s death in 1944. Vic Atiyeh was president of the company that became Atiyeh International, Ltd., and actively - [Andean Chuspas at BGC Focus Gallery, New York](https://hali.com/news/andean-chuspas-at-bgc-focus-gallery-new-york/) - At the Focus Gallery at the Bard Graduate Centre, New York, Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas is showing to 3 August 2014. - [Gothenburg Paracas Textiles Return to Peru](https://hali.com/news/gothenburg-paracas-textiles-return-peru/) - The intricate ‘Shroud of Gothenburg’ is one of four ancient Andean textiles that have returned to Lima from Sweden this month. - [The New York School and Navajo art meet in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/lines-horizon-san-francisco/) - A San Francisco exhibition explains why artists such as Warhol, Pollock, Jaspar Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Judd and Frank Stella collected Navajo weavings - [Christie's Exceptional Sale 2014](https://hali.com/news/christies-exceptional-sale-2014/) - On the evening of 10 July 2014, Christie’s King Street salerooms, London will hold the fifth edition of The Exceptional Sale. - [Coronation Carpet sold in Scotland](https://hali.com/news/coronation-carpet-sold-scotland/) - On 25 June 2014, Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull sold a fragmented Safavid period Persian carpet with a unique story. The Holms Hepburn Coronation carpet is a typical red-ground ‘in and out palmette’ design weaving of the 17th century, perhaps Esfahan but with an untypical cartouche border, somewhat reconfigured into a squarish fragment. Nothing too unusual - [Flying carpets in Vienna](https://hali.com/news/mak-carpet-reinstallation-april-2014/) - The Carpet Hall at the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna has just reopened to the public after an extensive and imaginative reinstallation that presents the museum's permanent collection. - [Ruben's Eucharist tapestries on show in Madrid](https://hali.com/news/rubens-eucharist-tapestries-show-madrid/) - Until 29 of June, the Museo del Prado presents Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist. The exhibition will feature the six panels from Ruben's series and includes four tapestries - [Native American Art Gift on show at de Young Museum](https://hali.com/news/weisel-gift-to-de-young/) - A recent gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection is an extraordinary anthology of Native American art assembled over three decades by the local banker and businessman Thom Weisel, a pioneer in the development of high tech industry in the Bay Area. - [Turkmens rule the roost at Rippon Boswell](https://hali.com/news/turkmens-rippon-boswell/) - In Rippon Boswell’s 'Major Spring Auction' of antique carpets, kilims, embroidered textiles and carpet books on 31 May 2014, about 55% of the 243 lots sold for a gross value, including 22% premiums, of close to three quarters of a million Euros (about $1 million). Both the sold percentage and the total yield will rise during - [Olympia Fair 2014: Tribal and Textile Art](https://hali.com/news/olympia-fair-2014/) - The Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair returns for it’s 42nd edition at the Olympia exhibition centre, London, 5 – 15 June 2014. - [Missing Rugs Alert](https://hali.com/news/stolen-oriental-rugs/) - At some unspecified time or times during the past year, three readily identifiable antique oriental carpets have disappeared from a private collection in Europe. An appropriate reward is offered for information leading to their successful recovery. In the hope that the rugs can be recovered without unnecessarily involving the authorities, HALI has been asked to - [Art Antiques London 2014](https://hali.com/news/art-antiques-london-2014/) - Haughton International Fairs' Art Antiques London takes place from 11 - 18 June 2014 in a purpose-built pavilion in Kensington Gardens opposite the Royal Albert Hall and close to the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The event brings together approximately 70 of the world’s leading art dealers. Antique carpets, tapestries and textiles are represented - [Opening Day, Summer Olympia Fair](https://hali.com/news/opening-day-summer-olympia-fair/) - Antique carpets, textiles and works of tribal art are very lightly represented at this year's summer Olympia (5-15 June 2014). - [Turkmen Rug Gift for Oxford's Ashmolean Museum](https://hali.com/news/ashmolean-museum-oxford-receives-turkoman-collection/) - UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven 'Ersari' Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford - [Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale of Carpets & Textiles, Wiesbaden 31 May 2014](https://hali.com/news/rippon-boswell-spring-2014-auction/) - Highest expectations in Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 31 May 2014 rest on this large, colourful and highly collectable fragment from a ‘Bukhara’ carpet with multiple rows of niches (lot 96, estimate €65,000). - [HALI UK Tour 2014 - Limited places available](https://hali.com/news/hali-uk-tour-2014-limited-places-available/) - The HALI editorial team invite you to view our curated carpet tour around the UK. - [AOA Tribal Art Fair, New York](https://hali.com/news/aoa-tribal-art-fair-new-york/) - The annual AOA (Africa, Oceana and the Americas) Tribal Art Fair takes place 14 - 18 May 2014 on the Upper East Side, New York. - [Ned Long, 1927-2014](https://hali.com/news/ned-long-1927-2014/) - It is with great regret that we have heard of the passing of the well-respected and much-liked veteran Turkmen carpet collector and scholar E.B. (Ned) Long, in Akron, Ohio, on 2 May 2014, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. A scientist by training (like so many Turkmen rug enthusuasts) with a passion for the environment - [Christie’s Carpets soar to $4million](https://hali.com/news/christies-carpets-fetch-4million/) - Christie’s well-attended King Street sale of ‘Oriental Rugs and Carpets’ in London on Tuesday 8 April 2014 was a triumph for consignors and, a rare thing these days, a pleasure to attend. - [Decorative Textiles and Rugs at the Battersea Fair, May 2014](https://hali.com/news/decorative-textiles-and-rugs-at-the-battersea-fair-may-2014/) - A photographic review of the 'Textiles as Art' foyer exhibit at the Spring Decorative Fair, curated by London esoteric textile dealer Molly Hogg using exhibitors' textiles, plus assorted rugs and textiles shown on their stands by Hogg herself, Joshua Lumley, Pars, Stothert & Trice, Robert Barley, Kiki design, Lee Wright and others, including an unusual - [Molly Hogg ‘Using Textiles as Art’ at Battersea Fair](https://hali.com/news/molly-hogg-using-textiles-as-art-at-battersea-fair/) - The Spring edition of The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair takes place over the bank holiday weekend 29 April – 4 May 2014 in the giant marquee at Battersea Park, London. This will see 140 dealers from the UK and Europe unveiling their latest exciting finds. In addition, the selling display in the large foyer - [African Textiles 'Show & Tell' at Blythe House](https://hali.com/news/african-textiles-at-blyth-house/) - The Textile Society Collector’s Group met Helen Wolfe and Chris Spring at Blythe House to view West African textiles from The British Museum collection. - [Japanese Boro Textile Exhibition at Somerset House, London](https://hali.com/news/japanese-boro-exhibition-at-somerset-house/) - From 2 – 26 April 2014 the East wing galleries at Somerset House, London will host ‘Boro: Threads of Life’, an exhibition of 40 historic layered indigo fabrics collected by antiquarians Gordon Reece and Philippe Boudin over six years. - [Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West](https://hali.com/news/carpets-of-the-east-in-paintings-from-the-west/) - A concise exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 11 March – 29 June displays three mid 17th century rugs and three Dutch paintings of the same age that depict the same type of carpets. - [North American Indian Exhibition, Musée du quai Branly, Paris](https://hali.com/news/north-american-indian-exhibition-musee-du-quai-branly-paris/) - The exhibition ‘Indiens de Plaines’ at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, from 8th April – 20th July 2014 is an investigation into the Plains Indians of North America, their iconography, the continuum of their artistic expression and their place in the changing cultural imagination. - [Carpet Diem 2014 – Classical Chinese Carpets](https://hali.com/news/carpet-diem-2014-clasical-chinese-carpets/) - On Sunday 13 April 2014, the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Maximilianstraße 42, Munich will host ‘Carpet Diem 2014’, a keynote lecture by leading collector and expert on Chinese and East Turkestan weaving Hans König - [Greek Dress at the Hellenic Centre, London](https://hali.com/news/greek-womens-costume-at-the-hellenic-centre-london/) - Marylebone, in Central London, might seem an unlikely place for an exhibition of Greek costume, but it is the home of the Hellenic Centre, a focus for philhellenes and London’s Greek community. There could be found a rare opportunity to see an impressive range of Greek dress outside its native land. - [Chicken Cup sells at Sotheby's for $36 million](https://hali.com/news/chicken-cup-sells-at-sothebys-for-21million/) - A tiny porcelain Chicken cup from the Ming dynasty has set a new record at Sotheby's Hong Kong, fetching $36m (£21.5m) at auction. Those gathered in the auction house broke into a round of applause as the hammer fell on the sale. - [Carpet collecting at the V&A in the late 19th century](https://hali.com/news/19th-century-carpet-collecting-at-the-va/) - 'Singular Perfection at South Kensington: Collecting ‘Persian Carpets’ for the V&A, 1873-1893' was the topic of a seminar presented at the Wallace Collection, London by Moya Carey, IHF Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on 31 March 2014. - [MAK, Vienna to reopen permanent carpet gallery in April 2014](https://hali.com/news/mak-vienna-reopens-permanent-carpet-gallery/) - Classical Egyptian, Persian, Turkish and Indian carpets are highlights of the new presentation of one of the world’s best-known and most valuable collections; soon to be housed in a purpose built ‘spatial concept’ designed by Michael Embacher. - [Canopies for the Goddess at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, until 14 April 2014](https://hali.com/news/canopies-of-the-goddess-at-museum-rietberg/) - Twenty-seven temple cloths from Gujarat are on show in a special exhibition, ‘Canopies for the Goddess’, at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich Until 14 April 2014. - [Christie's Spring Carpet Sale, London, 8 April 2014](https://hali.com/news/christies-spring-carpet-sale/) - In the past year the structure of the top end of the international specialist rug auction market has seen some radical changes – both in the wake of the triumph of SNY’s single owner Clark Collection sale last summer and the very successful follow-up of Carpets from Distinguished Collections in January 2014, and through the - [The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 2014](https://hali.com/news/the-london-antique-rug-and-textile-art-fair-larta-2014/) - The Showroom in Penfold Street, London will once again host the fourth LARTA Fair, from Thursday 3 April - Sunday 6 April 2014. - [TEFAF Maastricht 2014](https://hali.com/news/tefaf-maastricht-2014/) - The world's leading art fair, TEFAF Maastricht, is about to begin in the MECC from 14-23 March 2014. - [Leclere Auctions, Marseilles, to hold carpet and textile sale(s)](https://hali.com/news/leclere-auctions-marseille-open-carpet-and-weavings-department/) - Leclere auction house has created a department specialising in carpets and textiles. Located in the south of France, the company is renowned for its expertise and experience in selling exclusive lots worldwide. - [Asia Week New York 2014](https://hali.com/news/asia-week-new-york-2014/) - 9 days of top tier gallery exhibitions, auctions, lectures and special events celebrating Asian art. - [Asian Art at the Bohemian National Hall, New York, 15-18 March 2014](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-at-bohemian-national-hall-new-york/) - The Bohemian National Hall is hosting its first annual Asia Art Fair 15 - 18 March 2014, with a preview on 14 March to coincide with the launch of the citywide Asia Week New York. - [HALI to exhibit at Asia Week New York 2014](https://hali.com/news/hali-to-exhibit-at-asia-week-new-york-2014/) - With only a few more days till the opening of Asia Week New York, we would like to announce that HALI will be participating in the event at the Bohemian National Hall. - [Peter Pap to bring Spring colour to New York Asia Week](https://hali.com/news/peter-pap-exhibits-in-ny-spring-asia-week/) - To coincide with New York’s Asia Week, Peter Pap will showcase around 75 carefully selected antique oriental rugs, at a venue still to be announced (watch this space) from 20-30 March 2014 - [Fine Antique Oriental Rugs II, Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 15 March 2014](https://hali.com/news/fine-antique-oriental-rugs-ii-austria-auction-company-vienna-15-march-2014/) - Udo Langauer’s second sale of ‘Erlesene Antike Orientteppiche’ will be held at Vienna’s Novomatic Forum at 4.00 pm on Saturday 15th March. - [Alberto Boralevi opens Sofreh exhibition in Florence](https://hali.com/news/alberto-boralevi/) - If you happen to be in Florence in March 2014, it will be worth your while to visit Alberto Boralevi's 'I Tappeti del Pane: Kilim Sofreh della Persia Orientale'. - [Vikings at the British Museum](https://hali.com/news/vikings-at-the-british-museum/) - The British Museum’s blockbuster Spring 2014 exhibition, Vikings: Life and Legend 6 March – 22 June 2014 explores warfare and cultural identity amongst the often violent, raider and trader warrior race. - [Buddhist Traditions and Transformations at The Met, NY](https://hali.com/news/buddhist-traditions-and-transformations/) - 'Devotional Buddhist Art of North India and Tibet', a selection of extraordinary Himalayan paintings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts, ancient and modern, is on show until June 8, 2014 in the South Asian Art Gallery at The Met. - [Expedition Silk Road: Treasures from the Hermitage Amsterdam](https://hali.com/news/expedition-silk-road-treasures-from-the-hermitage-amsterdam/) - This exhibition in Amsterdam from 1 March to 5 September 2014 will showcase over 250 objects, discovered by Russian expeditions, that span centuries of trade between East and West. - [Ancient & Modern Award Winners Announced](https://hali.com/news/ancient-modern-award-winners-announced/) - Master of tent studies, Dr Peter Alford Andrews has been granted the £1000 Ancient & Modern award for 2014. The £500 Godfrey Goodwin Prize for the runner-up goes to Oxford biochemistry graduate, Harriet Rix. - [Allegorical and Art Nouveau tapestries at Nagel, Stuttgart](https://hali.com/news/allegorical-and-art-nouveau-tapestries-at-nagel-stuttgart/) - Nagel’s Fine Arts and Antiques sale in Stuttgart, 26 – 27 February 2014, includes two notable German tapestries of greatly different periods and styles. - [Nelson Rockefeller's Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at The Met, New York](https://hali.com/news/nelson-rockefellers-arts-of-africa-oceania-and-the-americas-at-the-met-new-york/) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently opened a year long exhibition of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Vision: In Pursuit of the Best in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, till 5 October 2014. - [Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq at the Courtauld Gallery](https://hali.com/news/court-and-craft-a-masterpiece-from-northern-iraq-at-the-courtauld-gallery/) - The Courtauld Gallery, London will stage an exhibition of art from the Islamic world from 20 February to 18 May 2014 centred around an incredibly intricate metalwork bag. - [Sotheby's New York carpet sale good for all](https://hali.com/news/sothebys-new-york-carpet-sale-good-for-all/) - Friday’s auction of 175 Carpets & Textiles from Distinguished Collections at Sotheby’s New York was an extremely successful event with total sales of $3,985,006. - [‘Lady and the Unicorn’ Tapestries Return to France](https://hali.com/news/lady-and-the-unicorn-tapestries-return-to-france/) - After an absence for restoration of almost two years, 'The Lady and the Unicorn' tapestries have gone back on view at the Musée National du Moyen Age, Cluny, Paris. - [Ancient Peruvian featherwork at the Metropolitan Museum, New York](https://hali.com/news/peruvian-featherwork-on-view-at-metropolitan-museum/) - Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru, is an installation comprising twelve spectacular feather panels made by the Wari people of southern Peru, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 2 March 2014. - [Made in Oceania: Tapa exhibition in Cologne](https://hali.com/news/made-in-oceania-tapa-exhibition-in-cologne/) - The Rautenstracuh-Joest Museum's new special exhibition 'Made in Oceania: Tapa - Art and Social Landscapes' presents a number of unique tapa (bark cloth) masterpieces dating back to the 18th century, on show until 27 April 2014. - [Sotheby's New York to sell distinguished carpets on 31 January](https://hali.com/news/sotheby-s-new-york-to-sell-carpets-from-distinguished-collections-on-31-january/) - Sotheby’s New York will offer 175 lots of ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ on 31 January 2014, making a genuine virtue of the value of provenance. - [The Gail Martin Gallery presents ‘Continuing Traditions’](https://hali.com/news/the-gail-martin-gallery-presents-continuing-traditions/) - In signature style, ancient, antique & ethnographic textile art will be juxtaposed with works by contemporary fibre artists Polly Barton and James Bassler. - [Peter Pap at the New York Winter Antiques Show](https://hali.com/news/peter-pap-at-the-new-york-winter-antique-show/) - Views of Peter Pap's stand at the New York Winter Antique Show, featuring an 18th century Andean Colonial tapestry, similar to the one featured in Auction Price Guide HALI 178. - [Battersea Decorative Antiques Fair Album, January 2014](https://hali.com/news/battersea-decorative-antiques-fair-album-january-2014/) - The Battersea Winter Decorative Antiques Fair is pleasant and relatively low-pressure event, aimed primarily at the mid-level local (UK) antique and semi-antique decorative furnishings market. - [Battersea Winter Fair, 21-26 January 2014](https://hali.com/news/battersea-antiques-textiles-fair/) - The London Winter Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair returns to the tent in Battersea Park from 21 to 26 January 2014. - [Win free tickets for HALI readers to BRAFA Fair and Art Talks](https://hali.com/news/free-tickets-to-brafa-fair-and-art-talks/) - We are pleased to be able to offer ten HALI readers a complimentary pair of tickets, worth €50 each, to attend the fair and any of the fascinating lectures. - ['Montefeltro and the Islamic East. Urbino 1430-1550'](https://hali.com/news/montefeltro-islamic-east-urbino-1430-1550/) - Christie's Louise Broadhurst views spectacular carpets and textiles at an exhibition in Urbino. - [Anatomy of an Object: Boteh Khila Prayer Rug](https://hali.com/news/anatomy-of-an-object-boteh-khila-prayer-rug/) - From HALI 195: Ralph Kaffel focuses on a Caucasian prayer rug with the ‘Boteh Khila’ design - ['Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th Century'](https://hali.com/news/italian-exhibitions/) - Christie's Louise Broadhurst spots spectacular carpets and textiles at an exhibition in Florence. - [From HALI 195: Two Rugs at San Gimignano](https://hali.com/news/from-hali-195-two-rugs-at-san-gimignano/) - A historian by profession, Professor Marco Spallanzani has made a name for himself in carpet circles through his detailed and illuminating scholarly research in Italian archives and historic inventories. - [Motamedi to show antique rugs and textile art in Hamburg](https://hali.com/news/motamedi-to-show-antique-rugs-and-textile-art-in-hamburg/) - Motamedi’s Antique Rugs and Textile Art are holding the 'Golden Knot Gallery Exhibition' at Brooktorkai 15, 20457, Hamburg. - [Earliest Known Tibetan Mandala to be offered at TEFAF Maastricht 2014](https://hali.com/news/earliest-known-tibetan-mandala-offered-by-rossi-rossi-at-tefaf-maastricht-2014/) - TEFAF Maastricht will take place at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) on the 14 – 23 March 2014. - [Venice Biennale presents Azerbaijan](https://hali.com/news/venice-biennale-presents-azerbaijan/) - The 55th Venice Biennale played home to four Azerbaijani artists this year, including Farid Rasulov. - [Ramayana - Indian Miniature Art from the National Museum New Delhi](https://hali.com/news/ramayana-indian-miniature-art-from-the-national-museum-new-delhi/) - Ramayana, Indian Miniature Art from the National Museum, New Delhi offers an opportunity to savour the art of the miniature at The Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels until 18th May 2014. - [Beyond El Dorado at The British Museum](https://hali.com/news/beyond-el-dorado-at-the-british-museum/) - Exploring the truth behind the legend of El Dorado, the British Museum focuses on Colombian culture before the 16th-century Spanish invasion. - [In Memoriam: Ron Hort](https://hali.com/news/in-memoriam-ron-hort/) - Michael Phillips writes: After a long battle with serious health problems, Ronald Franklin Hort passed away shortly after returning home from exhibiting at last October’s Antique Rug and Textile Show in San Francisco. - [In Memoriam: Toni Hutmacher](https://hali.com/news/toni-hutmacher/) - Henri Daumas writes: For a long time I was unaware of Toni Hutmacher. I met him a good while after I had met his wife, Arlette Bollag, a lively woman with a charismatic personality and an infectious love for old kilims. - [Uzbek textiles on show in Calgary, Alberta until January 2014](https://hali.com/news/rarely-seen-uzbek-textiles-on-show-in-calgary-alberta/) - ‘Ram Horns and Scorpion Tails: Textiles from Uzbekistan’, which opened on 8 November 2013 in in the new Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary, features a selection of Uzbek rural flatwoven and embroidered textiles and knotted pile rugs from the Jean and Marie Erikson Collection. - [The Arts scene in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/the-arts-scene-in-san-francisco/) - Without doubt ARTS at the Capri in October makes San Francisco Rug Week the most important annual event in the rug calendar. A review of the event will appear in the next of HALI published on 23 December but here we continue our pictorial review of what went on at the 2013 edition. - [San Francisco Bay Area: Central Asian Textiles exhibition](https://hali.com/news/central-asian-textiles-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area/) - Richard Mull writes: Tom Cole’s home/gallery in San Rafael, California, with the regular receptions and exhibitions he hosts, is now something of an anachronism in the Bay Area rug world. - [Preview: Collector Rugs and Textiles at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden, 30 November 2013](https://hali.com/news/preview-collector-rugs-and-textiles-at-rippon-boswell-in-wiesbaden-30-november-2013/) - Rippon Boswell will hold their autumn sale of Collector Rugs and Textiles in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 30th November 2013. The auction is open to preview daily from Wednesday 27th until the morning of the sale. - [Rug Restoration at the Volkmanntreffen](https://hali.com/news/restoration-at-the-volkmanntraffen/) - Ever wondered what the toxins you use to kill the moths might do to you? Ever used Eulan on a rug? Struggled to find the right solution to restore or mount a textile? The participants at this year’s Volkmanntreffen certainly had some good questions - [London Winter Olympia Antiques & Fine Art Fair, Rug and Textile Image Gallery](https://hali.com/news/london-winter-olympia-antiques-fine-art-fair-rug-and-textile-image-gallery/) - Carpet and textile participation at London's Winter Olympia Fair is at an all time low, with just three exhibitors this year: Christopher and Angela Legge, Brian MacDonald, and Gallery Yacou. - [Celebrations in Korean Art during the Joseon Dynasty at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/celebrations-in-korean-art-during-the-joseon-dynasty-at-the-asian-art-museum-san-francisco/) - The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, will present In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art during the Joseon Dynasty, on view 25 October 2013 - 12 January 2014. - [SOAS opens Zoroastrian exhibition in London](https://hali.com/news/soas-opens-zoroastrian-exhibition-in-london/) - The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination is the first exhibition of its kind to provide an in-depth visual narrative of the history of Zoroastrianism, its cultural heritage its influence on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. - [Hazara Gallery, Autumn oriental rug exhibit, Oakland, CA](https://hali.com/news/hazara-gallery-autumn-oriental-rug-exhibit-oakland-ca/) - An exhibition of traditional Oriental tribal and village rugs and textiles from stock opened in mid October 2013 at Mohammad Zavvar's Hazara Gallery in College Avenue, Oakland, California. - [Asian Art in London 2013](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-in-london-2013/) - Now in its sixteenth year, Asian Art in London is firmly established as one of the art world's most influential events, taking place from 31 October - 9 November 2013. - [San Francisco Tribal at Fort Mason, Image gallery](https://hali.com/news/san-francisco-tribal-at-fort-mason-image-gallery/) - San Francisco Tribal's Ninth Annual show, Tribal SF 2013 featured a broad selection of exhibits from ten local Bay area specialists in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, the Americas and Tribal Asia, as well as five guests from out of town. - [Non-Turkmen weavings exhibition in Marin County - Thomas Cole](https://hali.com/news/thomas-cole-opens-non-turkmen-weavings-exhibition/) - Thomas Cole's exhibition, Steppe Art - Non Turkmen Central Asian Tribal Art, includes pile weavings, flat weave, silk ikat and embroidery attributable to the Uzbek, Kyrgyz and other tribal groups. - [Frieze Masters 2013](https://hali.com/news/frieze-masters-2013/) - The second edition of Frieze Masters, London’s Regent’s Park from 17–20 October 2013, has grown considerably from last year, establishing its own identity rather than seeming to be a spin-off from Frieze London. - [Rothschild Textiles at Waddesdon Manor](https://hali.com/news/ecclesiastical-textiles-in-the-rothschild-collection-at-waddesdon-manor/) - Last chance to see Ecclesiastical Textiles at Waddesdon Manor on till 27 October 2013. The textiles, dating from c 1400 to the late 1700s, were acquired by several members of the family. - [Rug & Textile Gifts to the Corfu Museum of Asian Art](https://hali.com/news/textile-gifts-to-the-corfu-museum-of-asian-art/) - Formed by Yiannis Sarzetakis and Ruth Deighton during their wanderings in Asia from 1969 onwards, the collection was given to the Museum in 2011 along with almost all issues of HALI, in memory of their son Jason Deighton-Sarzetaki. - [SF ARTS 2013](https://hali.com/news/sf-arts/) - The Antique Rug & Textile Art Association (ARTAA) presents — ARTS, the annual Antique Rug & Textile Show at the Motel Capri in the Marina District of San Francisco, 17-20 October, 2013. ARTS is the largest US show with a focus exclusively on authentic antique rugs and textiles from weaving cultures from across the world and a highlight of - [Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 at The Met, New York](https://hali.com/news/interwoven-globe-the-worldwide-textile-trade-1500-1800-at-the-met-new-york/) - 'Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800,' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to 5 January 2014, is a staggering story of hidden treasures covering more than three centuries of art from all corners of the world. - [Bukhara Large-medallion Suzani at Christie's South Kensington, 11 October 2013](https://hali.com/news/texties-at-christies-south-kensington-11-october-2013/) - Christie's sale of Arts & Textiles of the Islamic & Indian Worlds at South Kensington on 11 October includes the first Bukhara large-medallion suzani to appear at auction for six years, estimated at only £20-30,000. - [From Isfahan to Delft in Amsterdam](https://hali.com/news/ali-foumani-exposition/) - Amsterdam's foremost rug rug dealer Ali Foumani ( Foumani Persian Gallery) has joined forces with Robert Aronson of Aronson Antiquairs, a leading specialist in 17th and 18th century Dutch Delftware, to present a meeting of cultures in 'From Isfahan to Delft, at Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 39, Amsterdam, until 13 October 2013. - [Ottoman textiles in Christie's autumn Islamic sale, London, 10 October 2013](https://hali.com/news/early-textiles-in-christies-autumn-islamic-sale-london-10-october-2013/) - The Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale at Christie's, King Street, on 10 October includes a good selection of Ottoman and Safavid textiles among the works of art and works on paper from across the Islamic and Indian Worlds. - [Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles First International Symposium](https://hali.com/news/queen-sirikit-museum-of-textiles-announces-first-international-symposium/) - The First International Symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles - Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond will take place 5-9 November 2013. - [Sotheby’s London, Arts of the Islamic World, 9 October 2013](https://hali.com/news/sothebys-london-arts-of-the-islamic-world/) - Sotheby’s Autumn sale of Arts of the Islamic World features a selection of paintings, manuscripts, carpets, and textiles, exemplifying the broad artistic traditions of the Muslim World. - [Bonhams London: Islamic and Indian Art and Carpets, 8 October 2013](https://hali.com/news/bonhams-london-islamic-indian-art-carpets-8-october-2013/) - This autumn, in addition to the full range of antique Islamic and Indian works of Art, including textiles, Bonhams’ major Bond Street sale on Tuesday 8th October also offers a small number (20 lots only) of oriental carpets for the first time. - [Preview: Carpets at Christie's King Street, 8 October 2013](https://hali.com/news/preview-carpets-at-christies-king-street-8-october-2013/) - In addition to the eye-catching Vanderbilt North Indian pashmina star-lattice carpet (lot 50), Christie's autumn sale of rugs and carpets at King Street, London, on 8 October 2013, includes a wide and varied range of consignments from across the carpet weaving spectrum. - [Nagel Auctions, Stuttgart to sell tapestries from the Imperial House of Habsburg](https://hali.com/news/nagel-auctions-stuttgart-to-sell-tapestries-from-the-imperial-house-of-habsburg/) - Nagel Auctions, Stuttgart will present a series of five tapestries from the Imperial House of Habsburg, in the Fine Arts and Antiques auction, taking place 9-10 October 2013. - [Return of a Champion: The Vanderbilt Indian Star-Lattice Carpet to be offered at CLO](https://hali.com/news/return-of-a-champion-the-vanderbilt-indian-star-lattice-carpet-to-be-offered-at-clo/) - Lot 50 in Christie’s London (King Street) carpet sale on 8 October 2013, the Vanderbilt North Indian star and cross lattice pashmina pile carpet is a former holder of the world record price for an oriental carpet at auction. Now estimated at £1.5 to £2 million, it could easily make substantially more - [From William Morris to Today: the Textiles of the Cotswolds](https://hali.com/news/from-william-morris-to-today-the-textiles-of-the-cotswolds/) - William Morris once described the Cotswolds, a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, as "a heaven on earth", therefore, the Gordon Russell Design Museum, in Worcestershire, seems like a perfect place to hold a textile exhibition, which includes some of Morris' work - [Historical quilts at the Brooklyn Museum of Art](https://hali.com/news/historical-quilts-at-the-brooklyn-museum-of-art/) - Last chance to see "Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts", on show in the Brooklyn Museum of Art till 15 September 2013. - [Ushaks and more in Dorotheum's 24th September 2013 Vienna carpet sale](https://hali.com/news/dorotheum-auction-featuring-historical-carpets-24th-september-2013/) - With some items dating back to the 17th century, the sixth major auction of Oriental Carpets, Textiles, and Tapestries, to be held at the Vienna Dorotheum on 24 September 2013, will present a total of 201 lots. - [Sartirana Textile Show, 2013](https://hali.com/news/sartirana-textile-show-2013/) - The 9th annual Sartirana Textile Show will take place from 19-22 September 2013 at Sartirana Castle in Lomellina, near Milan, Italy. More than fifty dealers, national and international, will be participating in one of the largest ever such shows, with a programme that includes a cultural exhibition and a lecture programme. - [Sartirana: Antique carpets and textiles in Italy](https://hali.com/news/sartirna-antique-carpets-and-textiles-in-italy/) - The 9th edition of the Sartirana Textile Show closes on Sunday 22 September 2013. The location of the event, about an hour outside Milan, means that the show is quieter than it deserves to be since the quality of the presentation, material and dealers is of the highest order. The setting in the ancient rice - [Last chance to see 'Masterworks of Navajo Design' at the Denver Art Museum](https://hali.com/news/last-chance-to-see-masterworks-of-navajo-designs-at-denver-art-museum/) - The exhibition 'Red, White & Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870' is coming to an end on 22 September 2013 at the Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Don't miss out on the chance to see eye catching textiles created by Navajo weavers during the mid-19th century - [Deadline Vienna – Austria Auction Company’s opening sale](https://hali.com/news/deadline-vienna-austria-auction-companys-opening-sale/) - Udo Langauer’s Austria Auction Company’s inaugural sale at the Novomatic Forum in Friedrichstraße on September 21, 2013 has a number of worthy collector carpets among the 200 plus lots on offer. - [Austria’s Newest Auctioneer](https://hali.com/news/austrias-newest-auctioneer/) - The first sale organised by Udo Langauer's new Austria Auction Company (AAC) will take place in downtown Vienna on 21 September 2013 at 4 pm, at Novomatic Forum in Friedrichstraße. The inaugural consignment will include between 180 and 200 high quality collectable antique rugs, kilims and textiles, ranging in date from the 16th century to the 20th. - [The Great Scottish Tapestry on show in Edinburgh](https://hali.com/news/the-great-scottish-tapestry/) - The twelve thousand year history of Scotland has been stitched into a 143 metre, 160-panel embroidered wall hanging that will be on show at the Scottish Parliament until 21 September 2013 - [Tribal art returns to Parcours des Mondes 2013, Paris](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-returns-to-parcours-des-mondes-paris/) - Parcours des Mondes is returning for its twelfth year as the most prestigious European show of tribal art, with sixty galleries participating in 2013 - [LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2013](https://hali.com/news/lapada-art-antiques-fair-2013/) - The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London will take place from Wednesday 25th September until Sunday 29th September 2013. - [Nagel, Stuttgart: Rugs & Carpets, 10 September 2013](https://hali.com/news/nagel-stuttgart-rugs-carpets-ethnographic-art-auction-10-september/) - Nagel Auktionen's sale in Stuttgart of Rugs, Carpets and Ethnographic Art on 10 September 2013 includes a full and varied complement of Turkish, Persian, Caucasian, Turkmen, Indian, Chinese and East Turkestan weavings - [Mohammad Tehrani opens new gallery in Hamburg](https://hali.com/news/tehrani-opens-new-gallery-in-hamburg/) - Mohammad Tehrani and his wife Sabine have just opened a new gallery at Alstertor 20 in Ecke Ballindam in the centre of Hamburg , while their old gallery in Neue Gröningerstrasse is now closed. - [Italian Renaissance Textiles in Cleveland, Ohio](https://hali.com/news/renaissance-textiles-in-cleveland-ohio/) - Until Tuesday, December 10, 2013, an installation at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents some 15 sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the CMA’s world-class collection. - [Khalili Collection loans Hajj treasures for Leiden exhibition](https://hali.com/news/khalili-collection-to-loan-treasures-for-leiden-exhibition/) - The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art is to lend over eighty works to the first major exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Hajj. - [Improvisation in the Deep South: Quilts exhibition in Michigan](https://hali.com/news/improvisation-in-the-deep-south-quilts-exhibition-in-michigan/) - The quilts of Susana Hunter from Alabama are a very individual window into the world of the African American woman's experience of the southern USA in the 20th century - [In-Depth on hali.com](https://hali.com/news/in-depth-on-hali-com/) - HALI In-depth has a steady stream of long articles about oriental rugs and carpets taken from the extensive HALI archive. The latest article that has been posted is about East Mediterranean carpets from the V&A, first published 1981 - [Tsutsugaki: Indigo Textiles of Japan at the Guimet, Paris](https://hali.com/news/tsutsugaki-indigo-textiles-of-japan-in-paris/) - The exhibition 'Tsutsugaki: Japanese Indigo-dyed Textiles' at the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet in Paris until 10 October 2013, brings together works taken from the museum's Krishna Riboud/AEDTA Collection, from a private collection and from Japanese collections, including pieces that have never left the country before. - [The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art, August 2013](https://hali.com/news/the-santa-fe-show-objects-of-art-august-2013/) - More than 65 prestigious exhibitors will be showing at the 4th annual Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art, taking place from 9 to 13 August 2013 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico. - [Southwest Textiles database launched at Arizona State Museum](https://hali.com/news/southwest-textiles-database-launched-at-arizona-state-museum/) - Two brand new, searchable, illustrated databases aim to share the artistry and study of American Southwestern textiles with the world. - [Historic English Quilts from the V&A in Brisbane, Australia](https://hali.com/news/18th-century-quilts-from-the-va-appear-in-brisbane/) - An inspirational exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, until 22 September 2013, features over 200 years of British quilt-making. - [Baluchtreffen 2013: Prayer Rugs](https://hali.com/news/baluchtreffen-2013/) - Frank Martin Diehr reports: On the second weekend in June, the tiny village of Taura, near Chemnitz in Saxony became the hub of the Baluch collecting world, with participants in annual German-speaking Baluch collectors’ meeting coming from as far afield as the USA and Sweden. - [Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art in Munich](https://hali.com/news/moroccan-carpets-and-modern-art/) - An upcoming exhibition at The International Design Museum, Munich, will center on the collection of Munich architect Professor Jürgen Adam, from 29 September 2013 till 6 January 2014. - [‘Majestic African Textiles’ in Indiana until March 2014](https://hali.com/news/majestic-african-textiles-at-the-indianapolis-museum-of-art-until-march-2014/) - A stunning exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art features more than 60 pieces of antique textile art from North and Sub-Saharan Africa from the museum's diverse collection of African textiles, one of the most comprehensive in the USA. - [An Ottoman Tent in Wawel Royal Castle](https://hali.com/news/an-ottoman-tent-from-the-wawel-collection-cracow/) - The 17th-century Turkish tent on display at the Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, is the largest of its kind in Poland, and is one of the most valuable historical mementoes in the Wawel collection and indeed all of Europe. - [Fabulous textiles on show in Cleveland](https://hali.com/news/cleveland/) - On 30 June 2013, The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its new North Wing galleries with an inaugural exhibition ‘Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900’, which reveals the museum's exceptional oriental textiles collection to the world for the first time in almost a decade - [Above all - the Material Culture rug and textile sale](https://hali.com/news/above-it-all-the-material-culture-sale/) - Material Culture in Philadelphia offers visitors a unique sample on its old and new rugs and textiles on the 4th July weekend at huge discounts - [Princely Prices: Sotheby's Treasures](https://hali.com/news/princely-prices-sothebys-treasures/) - Timed to coincide with the last day of the London Masterpiece Fair, Sotheby's prestigious evening sale on 3 June 2013 of Treasures, Princely Taste, consisting of 49 well-provenanced works of art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, totalled £9,218,850. Among the successful lots were two well-known Classical period Oriental carpets consigned by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. - [Command Performance: Kuba Cloths from Central Africa](https://hali.com/news/command-performance-kuba-cloths-from-central-africa-feb/) - There are just over two weeks left to visit the textile exhibition Command Performance: Kuba Cloths from Central Africa at The Honolulu Museum of Art, till 21 July 2013. - [From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile Treasures in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/from-the-exotic-to-the-mystical-textile-treasures-in-san-francisco/) - Don't miss your chance to see From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, on show till 4 August 2013. - [Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters, New York](https://hali.com/news/search-for-the-unicorn-at-the-cloisters-new-york/) - To mark the 75th anniversary of the Cloisters in New York and 75 years of the Unicorn Tapestries being a focal point of that collection, the Cloisters is currently holding an exhibition 'Search for the Unicorn, An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters' 75th Anniversary' - [Eye-Catching Kilims at Netherhampton, 10 July 2013](https://hali.com/news/kilims-at-netherhampton-10-july-2013/) - Netherhampton Salerooms' auction of Carpets, Rugs and Textiles in Salisbury, England on 10 July 2012 includes the the second part of a European private collection of kilims, mainly Anatolian. - [Flora Islamica. Plant Motifs in the Art of Islam in Copenhagen](https://hali.com/news/flora-islamica-plant-motifs-in-the-art-of-islam-in-copenhagen/) - For over a millenium, plant motifs in the form of vines, leaves, flowers, fruits, and trees were among those most frequently used in the art of the Islamic world. Many of these works were created in the hot, barren regions of the Middle East, and the lush Paradise as described in the Qur'an would have appealed to the Muslim artists. - [Lalanne 'Mouton' fetches high price at Sotheby's New York](https://hali.com/news/lalanne-mouton-fetches-high-price-at-sothebys-new-york/) - Sotheby’s New York sale of Important 20th Century Design totaled a strong $4,738,940, almost reaching its pre-sale high estimate of $5 million. - [More Clark Classical Carpets from SNY's Record Breaking 5 June Sale](https://hali.com/news/more-clark-classical-carpets-from-snys-5-june-sale/) - The world record setting Clark sickle leaf Kerman carpet, the massive Lafoes Esfahan, and the extraordinarily rare and beautiful Cairene round carpet, have hogged the headlines, but there were also another 22 lots sold for astonishing prices in Sotheby's 100% successful sale of Classical Persian, Egyptian and Indian carpets in New York on 5 June. - [Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, at the MFA, Houston](https://hali.com/news/arts-of-islamic-lands-selections-from-the-al-sabah-collection-kuwait-at-the-mfa-houston/) - A selection of Islamic masterworks from Kuwait’s al-Sabah Collection are on display at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, until 26 January 2014, as part of a long-term collaboration with the Kuwait National Museum, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI). - [Don't Miss India: An Exhibition of Photographs of Textiles from the Subcontinent](https://hali.com/news/dont-miss-india-an-exhibition-of-photographs-of-india-and-textiles-from-the-subcontinent/) - San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website, via social media, and in a series of gallery exhibits in Marin County. His third and - [Istanbul Ottoman Embroidery Exhibition extended to June 30th 2013](https://hali.com/news/istanbul-ottoman-embroidery-exhibition-extended-to-june-30th-2013/) - In response to popular demand, 'Skill of the Hand, Delight of the Eye', the Sadberk Hanım Museum’s current exhibition in Istanbul of of Turkish embroidery has been extended until the end of June 2013. - [New world record for a carpet sold at auction](https://hali.com/news/sickle-leaf-carpet-breaks-record-at-sothebys-new-york/) - A superb 17th century carpet from Persia leads a record breaking auction of carpets at Sotheby's New York, selling for $33m, and putting rugs in the same collecting category as Old Master and Modern paintings - [Extended to 16 June: Moscow’s Pushkin Museum hosts Russia’s premier private collection of Islamic Art](https://hali.com/news/moscows-pushkin-museum-hosts-russias-premier-private-collection-of-islamic-art/) - Hurry, there’s still time to see the exhibition 'Ninety-nine Names of God: Classical Art of the Islamic World from the IX to XIX Centuries', on show for another ten days at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Arts, Moscow. Open until 26th May, 2013, the display shows ninety-nine masterpieces of Islamic Art from the collections of the Mardjani Foundation. - [Summer Olympia 2013 - Rugs, textiles and tribal art](https://hali.com/news/summer-olympia-2013-rugs-textiles-and-tribal-art/) - Exhibitors with items of special interest to HALI readers in the wide-open spaces of this year's summer Olympia fair in London, until 16 June, include Galerie Arabesque (Ulrike Montigel), Esther Fitzgerald, Clive Loveless, Tribal Gathering (Bryan Reeves), Johanna Booth, Gallery Yacou, Brian Macdonald and Potterton Books, - [Rudolf Stingel at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, to December 2013](https://hali.com/news/rudolf-stingel-at-the-palazzo-grassi-till-december-2013/) - Curated by the artist himself, Rudolf Stingel, has collaborated with Elena Geuna to conceive an installation for Palazzo Grassi. Spreading over 5,000 square metres, the exhibition begins to unfold at the atrium and spans two floors above. - [Asian Art in Brussels](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-in-brussels/) - The first edition of Asian Art in Brussels (AAB) is currently taking place till 9th June, 2013. Founded by the original group of dealers of BOA Fair, AAB has been expanded with some excellent new leading dealers in the arts of South and South East Asia, China, Japan and other Asian countries. - [The Brussels Non European Art Fair - BRUNEAF](https://hali.com/news/fairs-in-brussel/) - For over twenty years, a number of primitive antique dealers have open their doors to the public in the summer and this year the event will take place from the 5-9 June, 2013. - [Kensington Antique Rug Mercantile Association - KARMA 2013](https://hali.com/news/kensington-antique-rug-mercantile-association-karma-2013/) - Tomorrow will be the final day to visit the Kensington Antique Rug Mercantile Association 2013 Fair, open from 11am - 9.30pm. Annually coinciding with Olympia Fine Art Fair, KARMA will be exhibiting nearby at 3rd and 4th floors 202 Apartments, 202 Kensington Church St, Kensington, London. - [Parting Shots Online: BARE, Berlin, 30 May-2 June 2013](https://hali.com/news/parting-shots-on-line-bare-berlin-30-may-2-june-2013/) - This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin. - [BARE - First View](https://hali.com/news/bare-first-view/) - BARE - The Berlin Antique Rug Exhibition, the newest of the rug and textile world's marketing enterprises, was held within the grittily atmospheric surroundings of the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2, from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013. The event was organised by Tim Steinert and Carpet Collector Magazine, and included about thirty European dealers. - [Suzani World Record enlivens Wiesbaden Spring sale](https://hali.com/news/suzani-world-record-enlivens-wiesbaden-spring-sale/) - A huge new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description helped to brighten the day at Rippon Boswell's 25 May 2013 sale of collector carpets and textiles. - [BARE: Berlin Antique Rugs & Textile Exhibition, 31 May– 2 June 2013](https://hali.com/news/bare-berlin-antique-rugs-textile-exhibition-31-may-2-june-2013/) - BARE, a new trade fair for antique rugs and textiles will be held in Berlin at the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2 from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013. - [De Young Museum, San Francisco: From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection](https://hali.com/news/de-young-museum-san-francisco-from-the-exotic-to-the-mystical-textile-treasures-from-the-permanent-collection/) - From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park until 4 August 2013, consists of more than 40 objects, most never before on public display, representing 15 centuries of textile arts drawn from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's extensive holdings. - [Denver Art Museum: Red, White & Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870](https://hali.com/news/denver-art-museum-red-white-bold-masterworks-of-navajo-design-1840-1870/) - Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870, at the Denver Art Museum until 22 September 2013, presents about 50 of the greatest examples of Navajo design expression. - ['Cover Story' to open this week alongside 'Spun: Adventures in Textiles', Denver, Colorado](https://hali.com/news/cover-story-to-open-this-week-alongside-spun-adventures-in-textiles-denver-colorado/) - This week the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will be unveiling a new gallery space, Cover Story, which will exhibit over sixty artefacts from the museum's textile collection. The objects explore the ways in which textiles have been used by different cultures across centuries of time. - [Andy Williams’ Navajo blankets make a million](https://hali.com/news/andy-williams-navajo-blankets-gross-a-million/) - All 61 lots in The Andy Williams Collection of Navajo Blankets (actually 58 blankets and three baskets) on Tuesday 21 May at Sotheby’s in New York found buyers, for a total of just under a million dollars. - [English Textile Design of the Late 19th Century at the MAK, Vienna](https://hali.com/news/english-textile-design-of-the-late-19th-century-at-the-mak-vienna/) - 'A Shot of Rhythm and Colour: English Textile Design of the Late 19th Century', at the Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna Until 13 October 2013, offers a representative survey of the MAK's major collection of European Arts & Crafts textiles - [Alistair Macleod from Hand and Lock speaking at London College of Fashion](https://hali.com/news/alistair-macleod-from-hand-and-lock-speaking-at-london-college-of-fashion/) - In a lecture organised by the South and Southeast England Section of the Textile Institute, Alistair Macleod, chairman of Hand & Lock, will be speaking at London College of Fashion today, Wednesday 22nd May 2013. The prestigious company has specialised in producing the highest quality hand-embroidered products since 1767. For more information and to register for the talk, - [LACMA acquires rare Balinese painting](https://hali.com/news/lacma-acquires-rare-balinese-painting/) - The LACMA has acquired an exceptional Balinese painting depicting The Temptation of Arjuna, from the estate of renowned Indian art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy. - [Chinese gallery reopens in Zurich](https://hali.com/news/chinese-gallery-reopens-in-zurich/) - The China department of Museum Rietberg, Zurich has reopened after a six-month rebuilding programme. - [Suzani Stars at Skinner's](https://hali.com/news/suzani-stars-at-skinners/) - Top lot in Skinner's Boston sale of Oriental Rugs and Carpets on 11 May was lot 118, this high class Shahrisyabz embroidery, with the classic four and one design in both field and border, which fetched $50,000 against a paltry estimate of just $2,000-3.000. While not a world record, it is one of the highest prices ever paid for the type, and indeed for suzanis of any label. - [Morris & Co. Embroidery at Christie's in London](https://hali.com/news/morris-co-embroidery-at-christies-in-london/) - On May Day 2013, in Christie’s London sale of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design, two English Arts & Crafts Movement embroideries closely associated with William Morris and his daughter May Morris were sold for significant prices. - [Tribal art on New York's 5th and Madison Avenues](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-on-new-yorks-5th-and-madison-avenues/) - Two events in New York's Upper East Side bring the best African, Oceanic and American art to the USA for a week in May. - ['The Lady and the Unicorn' enchants Japan](https://hali.com/news/the-lady-and-the-unicorn-enchants-japan/) - 'The Lady and the Unicorn', one of the most splendid European artworks of the Middle Ages, has left Paris for Japan until October 2013 - the first time the tapestry cycle has been out of Paris since 1973. - [Quai Branly launches Philippines art](https://hali.com/news/an-example-news-article/) - Paris's Quai Branly museum has a good track record of bringing the art of little-known cultures to the attention of worldwide audiences. The Philippines can hardly been described as 'little-known', of course, but – unbelievably, until now – its art and culture have not been the subject of any specialist exhibitions. - [Victoria & Albert Museum announces finalists for third Jameel Prize](https://hali.com/news/va-jameel-prize-3/) - On 14 March 2013, the Victoria & Albert Museum announced the finalists for the third Jameel Prize. The winner of the £25,000 biennial award is selected from a shortlist of ten artists and designers. - [Paris museum welcomes the Mysterious Cities of Gold](https://hali.com/news/paris-welcomes-the-city-of-gold/) - With museums around the world competing to find ever more imaginative ways to get new and younger audiences to visit their exhibitions, the Guimet in Paris has come up with treasure: its latest show celebtrates the '80s Japanese-French animated series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, along with its recent sequel series. - [Canal Mills in Leeds gets mural makeover](https://hali.com/news/leeds-textile-mill-made-over/) - Canal Mills in Leeds, imposing in its former grandeur as a textile mill and now a music and performance venue, has received a mural makeover by Yorkshire-based graffiti artist Phlegm. - [Grant boosts textile art department at Denver Art Museum](https://hali.com/news/grant-boosts-textile-art-department-at-dam/) - In early April, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced that it has been awarded a USD 1.75 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its textile art department. - [A Cut Above the Rest](https://hali.com/news/a-cut-above-the-rest/) - A newly opened gallery in London will place carpets—and this summer, Central Asian suzanis—at the heart of its programme. HALI Editor Ben Evans visits. - [From HALI 195: Thread of Time](https://hali.com/news/tubular-skirt-java-palampore-coromandel-coast/) - Two resist-dyed trade cloths with roots on India’s Coromandel Coast have serious cross-cultural credibility. HALI Assistant Editor Rachel Meek compares an Indian hanging in India with a skirt cloth made for Indonesia and now in the Netherlands. - [Lady and the Unicorn](https://hali.com/news/lady-and-the-unicorn/) - The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry series, from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, is on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia until 24 June 2018. - [Collector Carpets and Textiles, Henry’s, Mutterstadt, Germany, 9 June 2018](https://hali.com/news/collector-carpets-textiles-henrys-mutterstadt-germany-9-june-2018/) - Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews Henry’s Auktionshaus’s large summer sale of 'Collector Carpets and Textiles'. - [Collection Adil Besim, Dorotheum, Vienna, 19 June 2018](https://hali.com/news/dorotheum-19-06-2018/) - Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews the 'Collection Adil Besim' sale at Dorotheum. - [ICOC XIV Preview](https://hali.com/news/icoc-xiv-preview/) - Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews the 14th International Conference on Oriental Carpets. - [Major Spring Auction, Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 2 June 2018](https://hali.com/news/rippon-boswell-wiesbaden-major-spring-auction-2-june-2018/) - Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer previews Rippon Boswell's Major Spring Auction. - [Book of the Week: Indian Cotton Textiles by John Guy and Karun Thakar](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week-indian-cotton-textiles-by-john-guy-and-karun-thakar/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Indian Cotton Textiles. Chintz from the 14th to the Early 20th Centuries in Karun Thakar Collection. - [Dearle Carpet in Sotheby's 'Important Design' Sale in New York](https://hali.com/news/dearle-carpet-snys-important-design/) - On Thursday 24 May 2018, Sotheby’s in New York will offer some 180 works of 20th-century European and American design, including one carpet of appropriate period and pedigree. - [Book of the week: Stars of the Caucasus. Silk Embroideries from Azerbaijan](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week-stars-of-the-caucasus-silk-embroideries-from-azerbaijan/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Stars of the Caucasus. Silk Embroideries from Azerbaijan. - [Book of the week: Turkmen Carpets by Elena Tsareva](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week-turkmen-carpets-by-elena-tsareva/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Turkmen Carpets. The Neville Kingston Collection. - [Ottoman and Safavid carpets in London](https://hali.com/news/ottoman-safavid-carpets-london/) - Thursday 26 April 2018 was a very good day for classical-period carpets in the London salerooms. - [Book of the week: Kimono-Meisen by Anna Jackson and Karun Thakar](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-weekkimono-meisen-by-anna-jackson-and-karun-thakar/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Kimono-Meisen. The Karun Thakar Collection. - [Carpets and Textiles at Christie’s, London, 26 April 2018](https://hali.com/news/carpets-textiles-christies-london-26-april-2018/) - Christie's forthcoming sale Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds features a selection of 70 carpets from the past five centuries, highlighting the various weaving centres within the Islamic world, from Spain to China. - [Book of the week: African Textiles. The Karun Thakar Collection](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week-african-textiles-the-karun-thakar-collection/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at African Textiles. The Karun Thakar Collection. - [TEFAF 2018: Embroidered truths](https://hali.com/news/embroidered-truths/) - Markus Voigt reviews the 31st edition of TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht. - [Textile highlights from the Important Design sale, Bonhams, London](https://hali.com/news/textile-highlights-from-important-design-sale-bonhams-london/) - Significant rugs and textiles are not limited to specialised auctions or even Islamic and Asian art sales. A case in point is the upcoming Important Design auction at Bonhams in London on 25 April 2018. - [Book of the week: The Carpet and the Connoisseur](https://hali.com/news/the-carpet-and-the-connoisseur/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs. - [Yellow shades from HALI 194](https://hali.com/news/yellow-shades-hali-194/) - The regular HALI magazine feature Thread of Time takes an abstract look at the links between two intriguing textiles from different places and cultures that deserve to be in the limelight. The following is extracted from HALI 194. - [Book of the week: Rugs & Art. Tribal Bird Rugs & Others](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week/) - In a new feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. First out is Abel Trybiarz’s Rugs & Art, published in 2017. - [Book of the week: Symbols of Power](https://hali.com/news/book-of-the-week-symbols-of-power/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of rug and textile interest. This week we look at Symbols of Power by Louise W. Mackie, published in 2015. - [Kilims on the up](https://hali.com/news/kilims-on-the-up/) - A brief overview by Daniel Shaffer of the sale of Anatolian kilims, North African carpets and southeast Asian textiles from the collection of the Austrian businessman Theodor Poppmeier, in which the best kilim lots outdid even those of the recent series from the much higher-profile Vok Collection. - [Book of the week: Tibetan Dress in Amdo and Kham](https://hali.com/news/book-week-tibetan-dress-amdo-kham/) - In a new weekly feature, we highlight a book of a rug and textile interest. This week we look at Tibetan Dress in Amdo and Kham, published in 2017. - [Asia Week New York, 15-24 March 2018](https://hali.com/news/asia-week-new-york-15-24-march-2018/) - The ninth annual celebration of Asian art, Asia Week New York opens today, and runs 15-24 March 2018. - [A Persian weaving legacy](https://hali.com/news/a-persian-weaving-legacy/) - A collection of Persian tribal rugs and kilims on show for the first time at the China (Qinghai) International Carpet Exhibition in Xining in June may be a catalyst in the development of a wider interest in traditional carpets in the world’s largest potential market. - [From Ningxia to Nichols](https://hali.com/news/from-ningxia-to-nichols-2/) - A selection from the collection of Chinese rugs of the New York-based Antique Rug Studio will be exhibited at the China (Qinghai) International Carpet Exhibition in Xining in June 2018. This article introduces the different types of carpets made for the domestic and export markets in the 19th and early 20th centuries. - ['Poppmeier Collection' sale at Rippon Boswell & Co, Wiesbaden](https://hali.com/news/poppmeiercollectionsale/) - The 'Poppmeier Collection', including early and rare Anatolian kilims, will be on sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on 10 March 2018. - [London rug sale brought forward](https://hali.com/news/london-rug-sale-rescheduled/) - The Spring Islamic Week sale of 'Rugs and Carpets including Distinguished Collections' at Sotheby's in New Bond Street has been brought forward by one day to avoid a clash with Islamic and Orientalist art sales. The sale, now scheduled for the afternoon of Monday 23 April 2018, includes a further twenty historic Turkish village carpets - [London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA), 23-28 January 2018](https://hali.com/news/london-antique-rug-and-textile-art-fair-larta/) - The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA) returns to Battersea Park 23-28 January 2018 taking place alongside The Decorative Antiques & Textile Fair - [Collector Carpets at Henry's, Mutterstadt, 9 December 2017](https://hali.com/news/collector-carpets-henrys-mutterstadt-9-december-2017/) - Henry's sale on 9 December 2017 has almost 350 lots with a good offering of antique Tibetan and Chinese rugs among the semi-antique and antique furnishing carpets and rugs that represent the bulk of the sale. - [From HALI 193: The Bruschettini Collection at the Aga Khan Museum](https://hali.com/news/from-hali-193-the-bruschettini-collection-at-the-aga-khan-museum/) - In late September 2017, the great and good of the Islamic art world gathered in Toronto for a programme of events to celebrate the opening of the exhibition ‘Arts of the East’ at the Aga Khan Museum, featuring loans from the Bruschettini Collection. - [Alexander triumphs in London](https://hali.com/news/alexander-triumphs-in-london/) - Bucking the general market trend, the dedicated carpet sale of 154-lots offered at Sotheby’s New Bond Street’s on 7 November 2017 was one of the most exciting and successful rug auctions seen in London in recent years. - [Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 25 November 2017](https://hali.com/news/rippon-boswell-wiesbaden-25-november-2017/) - To view the Rippon Boswell catalogue please click here - [The Fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets, Baku](https://hali.com/news/the-fifth-international-symposium-on-azerbaijani-carpets-baku/) - The 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017) took place on 17-20 October 2017 in Baku. The programme was ambitious, with three days of lectures, museum exhibitions and numerous cultural events. - [From HALI 193: 'Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance' at The Met](https://hali.com/news/relative-values-the-cost-of-art-in-the-northern-renaissance/) - In the regular Anatomy of an Object feature in HALI 193, curator Elizabeth Cleland explains the concept behind The Met exhibition that uses the currency of cows to illustrate the expense of tapestries at the time of their manufacture. - [Antique Rug and Textile Show, San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/antique-rug-textile-show-san-francisco/) - This year’s Antique Rug and Textile Show in San Francisco was held at the newly renovated Greenwich Inn, a 1950’s era motel at 2055 Steiner Street, 27-29 October. Emma Gardner reports. - [Burrell at Kelvingrove: Tapestries, until 30 November 2017](https://hali.com/news/burrell-at-kelvingrove-tapestries/) - Tapestries from the Burrell Collection by Dr Elizabeth Cleland and Dr Lorraine Karafel, published in August 2017, is a richly illustrated benchmark for future research and interpretation of tapestries of the period. Some featured works are on show at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow until 30 November. - [Carpets and Textiles at the Florence Biennale](https://hali.com/news/carpetsandtextilesattheflorencebiennale/) - For the last few years, the largest number of firms exhibiting carpets and tapestries at a fair in Italy has been the annual exhibition held at Sartirana. Half a century ago, things were very different. The most important art and antiques fair in the world, bringing together many carpet galleries, was the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence. - [Oriental Carpets & Textiles, Christie's London Autumn Islamic Sale, 26 October 2017](https://hali.com/news/oriental-carpets-textiles-christies-london-autumn-islamic-sale-26-october-2017/) - In addition to a handful of excellent textiles, Christie’s autumn 'Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds' at King Street on Thursday 26 October 2017 has a separate section at the end of the sale of oriental rugs and carpets that contains a good number of top quality, antique collectable and high end decorative pieces. For an - [Antique Oriental Rugs VIII, Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 14 October 2017](https://hali.com/news/fine-antique-oriental-rugs-viii-austria-auction-company-vienna-14-october-2017/) - In Vienna, the 223 lots in Udo Langauer’s upcoming carpet sale, ‘Fine Antique Oriental Rugs VIII’ at Austria Auction Company’s Palais Breuner rooms on 14 October 2017, are divided into four main catalogue sections. - [An Architect's Eye: The Chris Alexander Collection at Sotheby's, London](https://hali.com/news/season-of-mists/) - Sotheby’s in New Bond Street will soon be the venue for the upcoming dispersal of two collections of memorable antique carpets, assembled for pleasure by British giants in the world of art and architecture. - [Portrait of the Artist: The Howard Hodgkin Collection, Sotheby’s, London, 24 October 2017](https://hali.com/news/portrait-of-the-artist-the-howard-hodgkin-collection-sothebys-london-24-october-2017-2/) - The late British painter and printmaker Sir Howard Hodgkin's wide-ranging collection is to be offered by Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday 24 October 2017. - [Three Exhibitions from the de Young Museum](https://hali.com/news/three-exhibitions-de-young-museum/) - Three exhibits at the de Young Museum testify that the collective unconscious is alive and well in San Francisco. - [Istanbul Carpet Week, 1-4 October 2017](https://hali.com/news/istanbul-carpet-week-1-5-september-2017/) - Two important exhibitions of historic carpets are opening at Istanbul's Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum during Istanbul Carpet Week, hosted by the Istanbul Carpet Dealers’ Association (IHIB) in association with COVER and HALI, 1-4 October 2017. - [International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017)](https://hali.com/news/international-symposium-on-azerbaijani-carpets-isac-october-2017/) - The fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017), titled ‘Traditions and Innovations’ will happen 17-20 October 2017 in Baku in partnership with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC). - [Dorotheum, Vienna, 12 September 2017](https://hali.com/news/dorotheum-vienna-12-september-2017/) - The specialist sale: Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries is held at the Viennese auction house, Dorotheum at 4pm on 12 September. - [Stars of the Caucasus—Azerbaijani Embroideries](https://hali.com/news/silken-stars/) - Embroideries of the 16th-18th centuries from the west Caspian region are the subject of a book, produced by Hali Publications, to be published on the occasion of the International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets on 17-20 October 2017. - [No reserve at Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 22 August 2017](https://hali.com/news/no-reserve-austria-auctions-vienna-22-august/) - Austria Auction Company and Udo Langauer's busy schedule of sales of Antique Collector Rugs continues on 22 August 2017 in Vienna. - [Islamic Art in Dallas](https://hali.com/news/islamic-art-dallas/) - The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery opened at the Dallas Museum of Art on 18 April 2017, with a long-term installation in a new purpose-designed space dedicated to Islamic art. The new installation features more than 100 works from the Keir Collection, including a substantial number that have never previously been exhibited. Assembled over five - [Lucien Viola and Tamy Mézian-Tazi, Marrakesh](https://hali.com/news/lucien-viola/) - Coinciding with the HALI Tour in Morocco, an exhibition of first-class Moroccan urban embroideries and rural ceremonial textiles was held at Galérie Rê in Marrakesh from 12 May to 24 June 2017. - [Fibres of Life, Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery](https://hali.com/news/fibres-of-life-hong-kong-university-museum-and-art-gallery/) - Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery’s exhibition ‘Fibres of Life’ (15 September–26 November 2017) and the publication Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago offer the world an overview of the ikat styles found across the islands, and the first comprehensive work of reference on the subject. - [Anatolian Kilims in Baden-Württemberg](https://hali.com/news/anatolian-kilims-baden-wurttemberg/) - This autumn, Harry Koll and Sabine Steinbock will put on an exhibition of 30 Anatolian kilims at Kunstverein Aalen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. - [Carpet Festival Returns to Georgia](https://hali.com/news/carpet-festival-returns-georgia/) - The Second Georgian International Carpet Festival will take place 28 June–2 July 2017. - [Carpet Auction at Henry's, Mutterstadt, 10 June 2017](https://hali.com/news/henrys-mutterstadt-carpet-auction-10-june-2017/) - Henry's in Mutterstadt, Germany will hold its 9th International Special Auction of Rugs & Carpets on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 321 lots encompass a wide variety of late 19th and 20th-century Persian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Chinese, Tibetan and Turkmen rugs. - [In Memoriam – W. Russell Pickering](https://hali.com/news/in-memoriam-w-russell-pickering/) - Mike Tschebull writes: When you lose an influential long-term friend, it is sobering and reminds you we are all mortal. Russ Pickering was my entry into the relatively closed world of a club for collectors of antique rugs and textiles, and we have been close for many years. In the 1960s, he was one of - [Baluch Flatweaves in Freiburg](https://hali.com/news/baluch-flatweaves-in-freiburg/) - The 12th annual Baluchi symposium was held at the Stadtteilzentrum Vauban in Freiburg, Germany, from 5 to 7 May 2017. The talks were accompanied by an extraordinary loan exhibition of more than 60 pieces. - [Teppich Engelhardt at Rippon Boswell, 20 May 2017](https://hali.com/news/teppich-engelhart-rippon-boswell-20-may/) - The ‘Teppich Engelhardt’ liquidation sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 20 May 2017 marks the end of an era for what was once one of post-war Germany’s largest and best known oriental carpet dealerships, Engelhardt of Mannheim. - [Austria Auctions 7](https://hali.com/news/austrian-auctions-7/) - Austrian Auctions offers rugs and textiles drawn from several international collections in its seventh sale on Saturday 22 April at 4 pm. - [Salvago Collection Ottoman Textiles, Sotheby's London 26 April 2017](https://hali.com/news/salvago-collection-ottoman-textiles-sothebys-london-26-april-2017/) - Sotheby’s London sale of Arts of the Islamic World on Wednesday 26th April 2017 includes twenty lots (139-158) of Ottoman and East Mediterranean complex silks, velvets and embroideries from the outstanding collection of Argine Benaki Salvago, grande dame of Alexandrian society in the 1930s and considered ‘one of Europe’s most beautiful women, the toast of - [Textile art in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/textile-art-in-san-francisco/) - The Tribal & Textile Show in San Francisco has long been a hub for non-western art. Ben Evans visits the show in its first year under new management, and reviews the best textile on offer - [Phulkari in Philadelphia](https://hali.com/news/phulkari-in-philadelphia/) - A group of nineteen phulkari from the Punjab, dated mostly to the first half of the 20th century, is a promised gift to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and forms the basis of this survey into the genre’s fascinating and complex history - [The Hollander collection of Chinese Minorities textiles](https://hali.com/news/the-hollander-collection-of-chinese-minorities-textiles/) - Californian art dealer Thomas Murray launches a selling exhibition of the vast Hollander collection of textile from the Chinese minority tribes - [Australian War Memorial in Canberra buys Enver Pasha’s ‘Gallipoli’ rug at auction](https://hali.com/news/australian-war-memorial-in-canberra-buys-enver-pashas-gallipoli-rug-at-auction/) - The sale of the Jacques Cadry Collection of oriental carpets, manuscripts and icons at Mossgreen Auctions in Sydney on 2 April 2017 set new records for sales in Australia and pointed to some emerging trends. Susan Scollay reports: Jacques Cadry (1910–2003) was a Persian-born carpet dealer who pioneered the business in Australia. Founded in 1952, - [Tapestry, Carpets & Textiles, Christie's London, April 2017](https://hali.com/news/tapestry-carpets-textiles-christies-london-april-2017/) - The last week of April 2017 sees the textile arts represented in three separate Christie's auctions. First, at King Street on on Tuesday 25th, 'Noble & Private Collections I' includes a number of European tapestries, notable among them a 16th century Franco-Flemish Millefleurs fragment. Also at King Street, on Thursday 27th, is 'Art of the Islamic - [Persian New Year: The Shrine Carpets of Mashhad](https://hali.com/news/persian-new-year-the-shrine-carpets-of-mashhad/) - Join HALI and celebrate Nowruz with a special lecture by Dr Hadi Maktabi on 6 April 2017 at 7pm at the V&A in London, followed by a drinks reception. - [Uzbek Suzanis, Anatolian Kilims, Persian and Caucasian Flatweaves: The Vok Sale, Wiesbaden, 25 March 2017](https://hali.com/news/vok-3-rippon-boswell-wiesbaden-25-march-2017-uzbek-suzanis-anatolian-kilims-persian-and-caucasian-flatweaves/) - The third and final auction by Rippon Boswell of antique Central Asian suzani embroideries, Anatolian kilims, and Persian/Caucasian flatweaves from the incomparable Ignazio Vok Collection is to be held at Rippon Boswell’s Friedrichstrasse salesroom on Saturday 25 March 2017. - [Empowering Refugees Through Carpet Weaving](https://hali.com/news/empowering-refugees-carpet-weaving/) - The Anka Cooperative, a social enterprise in association with US rug producer Woven Legends, is turning to Kickstarter to improve the lives of even more refugee women. - [Success for the Vok Collection at Rippon Boswell](https://hali.com/news/rippon-boswell-vok-collection-iii/) - The well-attended auction of the third and final tranche of the Ignazio Vok Collection at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 25th March 2017 was, like its predecessors, a great success. - [Chintz in Friesland](https://hali.com/news/fresiland/) - For people that know, the exhibition of chintz 'Sits, katoen in bloei' (until 10 September 2017) at the Museum of Friesland in the Netherlands is a much-anticipated event. - [Classical Carpets and Renaissance Paintings in Venice](https://hali.com/news/classical-carpets-renaissance-paintings-venice/) - A major exhibition, ‘Sérénissime Trame: Carpets from the Zaleski Collection and Renaissance Paintings’, opens on Thursday 23 March 2017 at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro in Venice. - [Carpets and Islamic Art at the MIA, Doha](https://hali.com/news/carpets-islamic-art-mia-doha/) - 'Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India’, the current exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (15 March–4 November 2017), brings a new perspective to the MIA’s remarkable permanent collection. - [Uzbek Silks from the Megalli Collection in Houston](https://hali.com/news/uzbek-silks-from-the-megalli-collection-exhibit-in-houston/) - ‘Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats’, an unmissable loan exhibition of some fifty dazzling silk robes and panels from the collection of the late Murad Megalli, is now open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas until 4 June 2017. - [Bruun-Rasmussen Carpet Auction, Copenhagen 1 March 2017](https://hali.com/news/bruun-rasmussen-carpet-auction-copenhagen-1-march-290/) - For Bruun Rasmussen’s mixed Furniture and Carpets sale on 1 March 2017 at Bredegade 33 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, Henrik Schleppegrell has assembled about seventy carpet lots. - [Baku Symposia, 2017](https://hali.com/news/baku-symposia-2017/) - It is all happening in Baku this year. In addition to the 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijan Carpets: Traditions and Innovations (17-29 October), from 22-24 May the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum will host the 2nd International Symposium of The Common Language of the Turkic World – Patterns. - [A Textile Affair | Textiles As Art: Paul Reeves Collection | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 23 February](https://hali.com/news/textile-affair-textiles-art-paul-reeves-collection-lyon-turnbull-edinburgh-23-february/) - On Thursday 23 February, Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh are offering an interesting and often amusing selection of ‘Textiles as Art’ from the Paul Reeves Collection. Estimates range from the low hundreds of pounds to more than £20,000. Reeves, who began collecting British furniture and artefacts over forty years ago, He opened his first shop - ['Artful Weavings' in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/artful-weavings/) - Peter Pap will present highly collectible weavings from four well-known and important US private collections at two venues in San Francisco in February. - [HALI Preview: Domotex Hannover](https://hali.com/news/hali-preview-domotex-hannover/) - View the HALI preview picks from Domotex Hannover. - [HALI Preview: LARTA at Battersea Park](https://hali.com/news/hali-preview-larta-battersea-park/) - HALI previews the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA), now at Battersea Park. - [Thomas Murray Online Exhibition: Sumbanese Textiles](https://hali.com/news/thomas-murray-online-exhibition-sumbanese-textiles/) - A special exhibition of textiles from Sumba, curated by Thomas Murray and drawing from his extensive collection, is now online. - [Highlights from Henry's December Auction](https://hali.com/news/highlights-henrys-december-auction/) - HALI picks highlights from Henry's including a Lotto rug and a Swedish textile. - [Results from Rippon Boswell](https://hali.com/news/results-rippon-boswell/) - The collector's carpet sale at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on 3 December 2016 performed well with many pieces finding buyers at reasonable prices. - [Rare Ming Embroidered Panel at Bonhams Hong Kong](https://hali.com/news/rare-ming-embroidered-panel-bonhams-hong-kong/) - A spectacular votive embroidery will go under the hammer at Bonhams Hong Kong on 29 November 2016. - [Auction Highs in Vienna](https://hali.com/news/auction-highs-vienna/) - Highlights from the November auction in Vienna which offers 390 lots of antique collectibles. - [Asian Art in London 2016](https://hali.com/news/asian-art-in-london-2016/) - The ten-day annual event Asian Art in London, 3-12 November 2016, unites dealers, auction houses and societies in a series of selling exhibitions, auctions, receptions, lectures and seminars complimented by museum exhibitions. - [Rediscovery of a Tudor Dress Fragment](https://hali.com/news/rediscovery-tudor-dress-fragment/) - Curators from the Historic Royal Palaces in the UK have identified an embroidered altar cloth as a rare fragment of Elizabethan dress. - [From the Lands of Asia](https://hali.com/news/from-the-lands-of-asia/) - An unusual exhibition opens in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in November 2016. - [Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Oxford](https://hali.com/news/power-and-protection-islamic-art-and-the-supernatural-oxford/) - In HALI 189, the Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,Francesca Leoni introduces the landmark exhibition, 'Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural', showing there from 20 October 2016 until 15 January 2017. - [Lecture: Church Embroidery in Ottoman Constantinople](https://hali.com/news/lecture-church-embroidery-in-ottoman-constantinople/) - Elena Papastavrou will speak on Orthodox church embroideries at King's College London on 25 October 2016. - [Ramezani Exhibition, London](https://hali.com/news/ramezani-exhibition-london/) - Ramezani, a reputable brand established in 1955, offer the chance to purchase the best from their private collection of rugs and kilims from the extensive north London showrooms 19-28 October 2016. - [Christie's London, Rugs and Carpets, October/November 2016](https://hali.com/news/christies-london-rugs-carpets-octobernovember-2016/) - The autumn sees rugs and carpets of note included in three different Christie's London sales. - [Sotheby’s, Rugs & Carpets, London, 1 November 2016](https://hali.com/news/sothebys-rugs-carpets-london-1-november-2016/) - Sotheby’s dedicated autumn sale of 155 carpet lots, the second since the auctioneer's return to specialist rug sales in the Bond Street rooms, is strong on Chinese and East Turkestan pieces and also includes a small Ushak Lotto, a 17th-century Esfahan, a Type-C Star Kazak, a Mohtashem Kashan and a signed Zareh Kum Kapı prayer rug. There are numerous - [Sartirana Textile Show 2016](https://hali.com/news/sartirana-textile-show-2016/) - An album of photos from the 2016 edition of Sartirana Textile Show, which took place 14-18 September in Lomellina, Italy. - [Opus Anglicanum at the V&A, London](https://hali.com/news/opus-anglicanum-opens-at-the-va-london/) - 'Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery’ opens on 1 October at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Read an excerpt of the co-curators' introduction from HALI 189. - [HALI Picks from the Antique Pavilion at NYICS](https://hali.com/news/hali-picks-antique-pavilion-nyics/) - HALI's picks of antique carpets and textiles from the inaugural display at the New York International Carpet Show. - [Antique rugs at NYICS](https://hali.com/news/antique-rugs-nyc/) - The 'Antique Pavilion @ NYICS' at this year's New York International Carpet Show will be held from 11–13 September at the Terminal Warehouse (aka The Tunnel), 271 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001. - [Nagel Auction](https://hali.com/news/nagel-auction/) - Highlights from the Rugs & Carpets, Textiles & Islamic Art sale at Nagel Auction, Stuttgart, 13 September 2016 - [Parcours des Mondes, Paris, 2016](https://hali.com/news/parcours-des-mondes-paris-2016/) - A selection of works from the 15th edition of one of the world’s most important tribal art fairs, Parcours des Mondes in Saint-Germain-Des-Prés, Paris, 6-11 September. - [Tribal Art London](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-london-2/) - Tribal Art London, at the prestigious Mall Galleries from 1-4 September 2016, is the UK’s only fair devoted exclusively to authentic works of world art of all periods, from the ancient to the contemporary. - [Antique Borneo Iban Dayak Textiles: Thomas Murray Online Sale](https://hali.com/news/murray-borneo-textiles/) - Daniel Shaffer introduces an online exhibition and sale of Iban Dayak textiles from Borneo, collected during the 1970s and 1980s by the peripatetic tribal art collector/dealer Thomas Murray. - [LAPADA September 2016](https://hali.com/news/lapada-september-2016/) - The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, which takes place from 13–18 September 2016 in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, is now in its eighth year. - [North African textiles in Florence](https://hali.com/news/north-african-textiles-in-florence/) - From 3 September at Villa Romana, Florence will be an exhibition of some 25 North African textiles from the private collections of Renate Anna Menzel and Paul Vandenbroeck. - [Ancient Andean Textiles at Yale University Art Gallery](https://hali.com/news/ancient-andean-textiles-at-yale-university-art-gallery/) - 'Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles' is open at Yale University Art Gallery until 18 September 2016. Woven tunics, mantles and wall hangings as well as related feather, gold and silver objects, tools and ceramics ranging in date from 900 BCE to the 16th century CE are on loan from two private collections. - [Art of the Austronesians at UCLA’s Fowler Museum](https://hali.com/news/art-austronesians-uclas-fowler-museum/) - The current exhibition ‘Art of the Austronesians' at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles is showing until 28 August 2016. Read an extract from Thomas Murray's review published in HALI 188. - [Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries at Summer Olympia Fair 2016](https://hali.com/news/carpets-textiles-tapestries-summer-olympia-fair/) - A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors' stands at this year's Olympia Fair. - [The Hollander Collection of Chinese and Central Asian Silk Textiles](https://hali.com/news/hollander-collection-chinese-central-asian-silk-textiles-online-exhibition-sale/) - A select small group of Chinese and Central Asian silk textiles from the Roger Hollander Collection are being offered in a special online exhibition and sale by Thomas Murray. - [The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, 27 June-3 July 2016](https://hali.com/news/the-art-antiques-fair-olympia-27-june-3-july-2016/) - The Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia returns to west London on 27 June to 3 July 2016. - [Cultures: The World Art Fair, Brussels](https://hali.com/news/cultures-world-art-fair-brussels/) - For the first time, the three established fairs AAB (Asian Art in Brussels), BAAF (Brussels Ancient Art Fair) and BRUNEAF (Brussels Non European Art Fair) are joining together for 'Cultures: The World Art Fair' in Brussels, 8-12 June 2016. - [ARTS East, 10-12 June 2016](https://hali.com/news/arts-boston-10-12-june-2016/) - ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) East returns to Boston for the second time, 10-12 June 2016. - [Henry's Carpet Collection](https://hali.com/news/henryscarpetcollection/) - Highlights from the upcoming auction on 11 June 2016 of collectors carpets at Henry's Auktionshaus in Mutterstadt, Germany - [Phulkari exhibition, Turin](https://hali.com/news/phulkari-exhibition-turin/) - Phulkari from the private collection of Guido and Aldo Accornero Lazzarino were exhibited at the Museo d’Arte Orientale di Torino in Italy, 14 April - 15 May 2016. - [Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean](https://hali.com/news/textiles-identity-in-the-medieval-early-modern-mediterranean/) - The British School at Athens is organising a workshop titled ‘Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean: Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges’ to take place on 3-4 June 2016. - [From HALI 187: Tales of Far Magic, Unrolled…](https://hali.com/news/hali-187-tales-far-magic-unrolled/) - More than nine metres long, The British Museum’s ‘Cloth of Vrindavan’ is the focus of the current exhibition ‘Krishna in the Garden of Assam’. - [Major May antique rug and textile auction in Wiesbaden](https://hali.com/news/major-may-antique-rug-and-textile-auction-in-wiesbaden/) - Unlike the Vok II sale in March, the second major auction of antique rugs and textiles of 2016 at Rippon Boswell will contain items from many different collections and provenances. The Vok sales are becoming high points in the antique rug market both in terms of quality and results, and indeed for Rippon Boswell, but they - [Carpets and Tapestries from the Dani Ghigo Collection, Turin at Christie's London](https://hali.com/news/carpets-tapestries-dani-ghigo-collection-turin-christies-london/) - Some fifty antique oriental carpets, as well as European tapestries, from the collection of the veteran Turin antiquarian Dani Ghigo come under the hammer at Christie's King Street in London in the second part of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection sale on 12 May 2016. - [Kum Kapi at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum](https://hali.com/news/kum-kapi-calouste-gulbenkian-museum/) - For 'Kum Kapi', the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is drawing on little known items from its collection to display a handful of very fine Istanbul workshop rugs. - [Antique Rugs in Vienna](https://hali.com/news/antiquerugsinvienna/) - Austrian Auction Company's first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online. - [Morning Prayers on a Northwest Persian Long Rug](https://hali.com/news/morning-prayers-northwest-persian-long-rug/) - The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug. - [Seth Siegelaub at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam](https://hali.com/news/seth-siegelaub-at-stedelijk-museum-amsterdam/) - An extract from an exhibition review by Alan Kennedy of 'Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art' at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 - 17 April 2017. - [Small-Pattern Holbein Carpet and North Rhine Tapestry at Sotheby's NY, 12 April](https://hali.com/news/caramoor/) - Sotheby’s auction in New York on 12 April 2016 of 282 lots of ‘European Decorative Arts from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts’ includes a substantial number of carpets, tapestries and textiles from both East and West. - [London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 14-17 April 2016](https://hali.com/news/larta-2016/) - LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street. - [Sydney Opera House unveil Le Corbusier tapestry](https://hali.com/news/sydney-opera-house-unveil-le-corbusier-tapestry/) - The Sydney Opera House have unveiled a bold tapestry by Le Corbusier, purpose designed for the building in 1960. - [Rothschild Vase Carpets and much more at Christie's, London, 19 April](https://hali.com/news/rothschild-vase-carpets-much-christies-london-19-april/) - Christie’s spring Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction on 19 April 2016 in London is headlined by an amazing trio of 17th-century Kerman ‘Vase-technique’ carpets that were once the property of Baroness Alice de Rothschild, but there is far more to the King Street sale. - [Kössl at Schloss Laxenburg](https://hali.com/news/kossl-schloss-laxenburg/) - 'Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes' opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016. - [Nazmiyal Antique Rug Collection at Bonhams, New York, 4 April 2016](https://hali.com/news/nazmiyal-collection-sale-bonhams/) - A selection of carpets from The Nazmiyal Collection, one of New York's leading antique and vintage rug galleries, will be sold by Bonhams New York on 4 April - [On Sacred Ground](https://hali.com/news/on-sacred-ground/) - ‘Suolo sacro. Tappeti in pittura (XV – XIX secolo)’ is a spring exhibition to be held at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia’s Via Brera premises in Milan from 6 April–2 July 2016. The exhibition will feature 25 rare antique (15th-19th century) oriental carpets from Tabibnia’s incomparable holdings. - [Kashmir shawls and other antique textiles from the Nemati Collection. Drouot Paris, 11 April 2016](https://hali.com/news/kashmir-shawls-antique-textiles-nemati-collection-drouot-paris-11-april-2016/) - On 11 April 2016 at Drouot in Paris, Gros & Delettrez will offer a large and varied selection of 239 lots of Kashmir shawls and other Indian, Persian, Turkish, North African and European textiles from The Nemati Collection, New York. Among the 239 lots featured will be a broad range of 18th and 19th century - [Chinese and Central Asian Textiles, Asia Week New York](https://hali.com/news/chinese-central-asian-textiles-asia-week-new-york/) - At Asia Week New York, 10-20 March 2016, both Alan Kennedy, formerly of Paris but now relocated to California, and Milan’s Carlo Cristi are showing textiles among other Asian art objects. - [Rugs from the Amadi Collection](https://hali.com/news/rugs-from-the-amadi-collection/) - An exhibition of rugs from the Amadi Collection and architectural pottery opens tomorrow – Thursday 17 March – at The Palos Verdes Art Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA - [BADA Fair, London](https://hali.com/news/bada-fair-london/) - The annual British Antique Dealers Association Fair is open until 15 March at Duke of York Square on London's King’s Road. “The BADA Fair represents our aspirational community for fine art, design and antiques, providing an outstanding opportunity for collectors to meet and purchase from some of the country’s leading dealers” comments Marco Forgione, new - [Holbein in Berlin](https://hali.com/news/holbein-in-berlin/) - From 21 January to 8 May 2016, Berlin’s Bode Museum is host to an important exhibition, ‘The Madonna of the Würth Collection and Masterworks of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’. It is devoted to the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543), one of the greatest portrait painters of the Renaissance, whose name has of course also become synonymous with certain early types of classical Anatolian carpets. - [Asia Week, New York, 10-19 March: Textile Art at Gail Martin Gallery](https://hali.com/news/asian-week-new-york-10-19-march-textile-art-gail-martin-gallery/) - A special (by appointment) exhibition at Gail Martin Gallery during Asia Week New York, 10-19 March 2016, will focus on Asian and Central Asian textiles along with the work of contemporary textile artist Polly Barton. - [Ballard Rugs Exhibit in St Louis, March–May 2016](https://hali.com/news/ballard-rugs-exhibit-st-louis-march-may-2016/) - ‘The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs’ is on display at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA, from 6 March – 8 May 2016. - [Vok Collection Selection 2 at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 12 March 2016](https://hali.com/news/vok-collection-selection-2-rippon-boswell-wiesbaden-12-march-2016/) - On the eve of the second Rippon Boswell sale of suzanis and kilims from the Ignazio Vok collection, in Wiesbaden on Saturday 12 March 2016, HALI contributing editor Markus Voigt meets one of the most influential collectors in the textile field, who has spent a lifetime assembling beautiful things. - [Rarely Seen Oriental Rugs from the W. Parsons Todd Collection](https://hali.com/news/rarely-seen-oriental-rugs-w-parsons-todd-collection/) - The Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ presents ‘Antique Carpets Through the Eyes of W. Parsons’, which features seventeen rarely seen antique carpets and related books that informed rug collectors in the early 20th century. - [Ben Fernandes RIP](https://hali.com/news/ben-fernandes-rip/) - It is with great sadness that HALI has learned that the Far East’s most important and enthusiastic collector of antique tribal and village rugs, Ben Fernandes, died in Singapore on 25 January 2016 at the age of 82, following a long illness. Ben’s Mountain Looms private exhibition gallery became a must-visit location for rug-aware visitors - [The Sun King's Tapestries](https://hali.com/news/sun-kings-tapestries/) - ‘Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum (until 1 May 2016) in Los Angeles is the first major museum exhibition of tapestries on the West Coast in four decades. - [HALI Archive Launched](https://hali.com/news/hali-archive-launched/) - This year heralds a new and important chapter in the life of HALI by virtue of the launch of the HALI Archive: the contents of every single page of every issue of HALI available free to subscribers. The first issue of HALI through to the most recent issue, every article and all images are available - [SF Tribal & Textile Art Show at 30](https://hali.com/news/sf-tribal-textile-art-show-30/) - The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016. - [Alice de Rothschild’s Vase Carpet Trio at Christie's](https://hali.com/news/alice-de-rothschilds-vase-carpet-trio-christies/) - For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets. - [Tibet’s Secret Temple, Wellcome Collection, London](https://hali.com/news/tibets-secret-temple-wellcome-collection-london/) - Two striking Tibetan rugs are amongst the 120 objects that feature in ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ on show at Wellcome Collection, London to 28 February 2016. - [Gros & Delettrez, Orientalisme & Art Islamique, 20 November 2015](https://hali.com/news/gros-delettrez-orientalisme-art-islamique-20-november-2015/) - Three North African highlights from the recent Gros & Delettrez sale in Paris. - [Scandinavian Carpets at Artcurial](https://hali.com/news/scandinavian-carpets-at-artcurial/) - Artcurial’s second auction in Paris dedicated exclusively to Scandinavian design features three noteworthy 20th-century Swedish carpets. - [Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Met](https://hali.com/news/kongo-power-and-majesty-at-the-met/) - ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum tells the little known story of the earliest encounters between expansionary western trading powers and the kingdoms of the Central African coast. - [Siberian Decorative Arts at Musée du quai Branly, Paris](https://hali.com/news/siberian-decorative-arts-at-musee-du-quai-branly/) - ‘Esthétiques de l’Amour: Sibérie extreme-orientale’ at Musée du quai Branly, Paris is showing decorative art from far eastern Siberia to 17 January 2016 - [Arthur Millner - Islamic, Indian, Himalayan & South-East Asian Art](https://hali.com/news/arthur-millner-islamic-indian-himalayan-south-east-asian-art/) - The sale of over 400 lots includes Himalayan paintings and bronzes, Indian miniature painting, Islamic ceramics and metalwork as well as a wealth of textiles. - [Art of the Zo at The Philadelphia Museum of Art](https://hali.com/news/art-of-the-zo-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/) - From 11th November – 20 March 2016, The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents ‘Art of the Zo: Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh’, an exhibition of woven Chin textiles - ['Color and Space' at Tom Cole's Place](https://hali.com/news/color-and-space-at-tom-coles-place/) - 'Colour and Space', an exhibition of carpets and textiles, will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor Thomas Cole until 11 December 2015. - [Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art Reopens at the V&A](https://hali.com/news/toshiba-gallery-of-japanese-art-reopens-at-the-va/) - The Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art reopens at the V&A on Wednesday 4th November 2015 following refurbishment and a renewal of sponsorship. - [Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 28 November 2015](https://hali.com/news/austria-auction-company-vienna-28-november-2015/) - Subtitled ‘Treasures of Wool and Silk’, the November sale includes 209 lots of overall very high quality drawn from across the chronological and geographic spectrum of carpet weaving in the Eurasian rug belt. - [Sotheby’s London, 3 November 2015, ‘Rugs and Carpets from Distinguished Collections’](https://hali.com/news/sothebys-london-3-november-2015-rugs-and-carpets-from-distinguished-collections/) - ‘Rugs and Carpets from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in London on 3 November 2015 marks a return to the auctioneer’s New Bond Street rooms for sales dedicated to oriental rugs, carpets and associated textiles. - [PAD London 2015](https://hali.com/news/pad-london-2015/) - Sculptural, painterly and vintage textiles as seen in Berkeley Square at PAD London, 14 - 18 October 2015. - [Asian Textiles at Francesca Galloway, London](https://hali.com/news/asian-textiles-at-francesca-galloway-london/) - A selling exhibition of Asian textiles continues at Francesca Galloway, Dover Street, London until 30 November 2015. - [Volkmann-Treffen 2015](https://hali.com/news/volkmann-treffen-2015/) - The 2015 edition of Volkmann-Treffen will take place on 16–18 October 2015 at the Museum für Islamische Kunst/Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. - [The Indian Sari in Indiana](https://hali.com/news/the-indian-sari-in-indiana/) - An exhibition entitled ‘The Indian Sari: Next to the Skin, Close to the Heart‘ is currently on show at the Indiana University Art Museum to 20 December 2015. - [Textiles in London: Islamic Week Auction Preview](https://hali.com/news/textiles-in-london-islamic-week-auction-preview/) - This year’s busy autumn Islamic week sales in London are set to begin on 6 October. HALI reviews the textile offerings from the three main auction houses - [Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections, Sotheby’s New York, 1 October 2015](https://hali.com/news/carpets-and-textiles-from-distinguished-collections-sothebys-new-york-1-october-2015/) - SNY’s high-end auction of 'Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections' on 1 October yielded a total of $2,236,000. - [The Fabric of India Opens at the V&A](https://hali.com/news/the-fabric-of-india-opens-at-the-va-2/) - 'The Fabric of India' explores the rich world of handmade textiles from India at the V&A London, 3 October - 10 January 2016 - [Many Happy Returns](https://hali.com/news/many-happy-returns/) - ‘Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections’ at Sotheby’s in New York on 1 October 2015 is a compact sale – just 194 lots – full of old friends of good quality and provenance. - [Textile Snapshots from LAPADA ](https://hali.com/news/textile-snapshots-from-lapada/) - LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair is currently taking place in Berkeley Square, London. Executive Editor Daniel Shaffer selects some textile highlights - [The Shape of Things to Come: Oriental Rugs and Carpets at Christie’s King Street](https://hali.com/news/the-shape-of-things-to-come-oriental-rugs-and-carpets-at-christies-king-street/) - The London autumn Islamic sales are drawing near. In terms of rugs and carpets, this year Christie’s is the main player. - [Spirit and Matter: Masterpieces from the Keir Collection of Islamic Art at DMA](https://hali.com/news/spirit-and-matter-masterpieces-from-the-keir-collection-of-islamic-art-at-dma/) - The first exhibition of items from the Keir Collection, funded by an $800,000 endowment from Kosmos Energy, is opening at DMA on 18 September 2015. - [Parcours des mondes 2015, Paris](https://hali.com/news/parcours-des-mondes-2015-paris/) - The 14th edition of Parcours des mondes takes place 8 - 15 September 2015 in Paris, with Asian art being shown alongside tribal art for the first time. - [HALI Tour encounters Spanish 'Holbein' carpet](https://hali.com/news/hali-tour-encounter-spanish-holbein-carpet/) - The HALI Decorative Arts of Iberia Tour encounter a 15th century Spanish 'Holbein' carpet at the Monasterio de Santa Clara in Medina de Pomar, May 2015 - [Dyeing the Grid at William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe](https://hali.com/news/dyeing-the-grid-at-william-siegal-gallery-santa-fe/) - 'Dyeing the Grid' (through 13 October 2015) is the latest exhibition to combine contemporary art and ancient textiles at the William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe. - [Tribal Art London 2015](https://hali.com/news/tribal-art-london-2015/) - Tribal Art London 2015 is on at the Mall Galleries SW1, 2 - 5 September. The private view last night saw an eclectic mix of tribal art enthusiasts making the most of 19 specialist dealers under one roof. - [Qajar imperial tent in Cleveland](https://hali.com/news/qajar-imperial-tent-in-cleveland/) - The Arlene and Arthur Holden Textile Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art is the setting for an installation a Persian royal ‘Rasht-work’ round tent, with inscriptions, made for Muhammad Shah Qajar, who ruled Iran from 1834 to 1848, on show to 26 June 2016. - [ICOC last chance to see 'Unraveling Identity' at the TM](https://hali.com/news/icoc-last-chance-to-see-unraveling-identity-at-the-tm/) - [Meisen Kimono from HALI 184 - read the whole Summer issue online for free](https://hali.com/news/meisen-kimono/) - Japanese meisen kimono are the basis for a sumptuous new book, produced by HALI on the collection of Karun Thakar with essays by Thakar himself and Anna Jackson of the V&A. - [Italian Velvets on Show in Switzerland ](https://hali.com/news/italian-velvets-on-show-in-switzerland/) - One of the world's foremost collections of textiles, the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, Switzerland, places Italian velvets under its forensic gaze in its seasonal special exhibition. - [Auktionshaus Homm, 27 June 2015](https://hali.com/news/auktionshaus-homm-27-june-2015/) - Auktionshaus Homm will hold an auction of rugs and carpets in Oberursel, Germany, on 27 June 2015, 6pm local time. Featured is a good selection of Persian town carpets at inviting estimates. The star piece of the sale is lot 502 (below), a silk Heriz rug from the mid nineteenth century with a Vak Vak tree design. - [Visit Armenia with HALI](https://hali.com/news/visit-armenia-with-hali/) - The HALI Tour to Armenia in September 2015 will highlight the textile and rug traditions of this ancient nation. - [Michael Craycraft R.I.P.](https://hali.com/news/michael-craycraft-r-i-p/) - It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of the well-known tribal rug dealer Michael Craycraft, a genuine, if often highly opinionated and intuitive, expert on and connoisseur of Baluch and Turkmen weaving in particular. - [Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern](https://hali.com/news/sonia-delaunay-at-tate-modern/) - Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern represents the artist's considerable body of radical designs for fashion and textiles for interiors, alongside paintings that chart her practice from early figurative works to energetic 1960s abstracts. - [Stop Press: ICOC set for Washington DC in August 2015](https://hali.com/news/stop-press-icoc-set-washington-dc-august-2015/) - It has been announced that The International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) will conduct its 13th International Conference in Washington DC from 6 – 9 August 2015. The Conference will include, among other events, a series of lectures produced by ICOC at the new Textile Museum on the campus of the George Washington University, special - [Joseph V. McMullan Award 2014](https://hali.com/news/joseph-v-mcmullan-award-2014/) - Two winners of the most prestigious award in the field of oriental carpets, the Joseph V. McMullan Award have been announced for 2014. - [100 Kelims from the Neiriz Collection at the Volkspark Halle](https://hali.com/news/100-kelims-neiriz-collection-volkspark-halle/) - One hundred exceptional antique Persian, Caucasian and Anatolian tribal and village kilims and other flatweaves from the collection of Berlin artist/art dealer/ethnographic textile specialist Hamid Sadighi Neiriz will be on public display for the first time in the Volkspark Halle, in the town of Halle, Germany from 6-30 November 2014. - [Tibetan rugs at Cologne Fine Art 2014](https://hali.com/news/michael-woener-exhibit-tibetan-rugs-cologne-fine-art/) - Asian Art dealer Michael Woerner will exhibit a group of six early Tibetan rugs, formerly from the Robert P. & Alice Piccus Collection, at Cologne Fine Art, Koelnmesse, 18th – 23rd November 2014. - [Yongle Embroidered Thangka Returns to Christie’s Hong Kong](https://hali.com/news/yongle-embroidered-thangka-returns-christies-hong-kong/) - On 26 November 2014 an imperial Yongle silk thangka from a private American collection will go on sale at Christie’s Hong Kong in the Important Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, with an estimate of HK$80,000,000. - [ ‘A Life in Colour’ at Naziri, Hamburg](https://hali.com/news/naziri-exhibit-hamburg/) - Lila Valadan and Weddad Naziri have announced their first exhibition of Persian nomad rugs, ‘A Life in Colour’. From Friday 31st October 2014 at M. Naziri OHG’s newly redecorated warehouse in the Hamburg free port (Brooktorkai 15) they will be showing 64 selected pieces from the private collection of the late Mohammad Naziri, ranging from original Qashqa'i - [R.I.P. Paul Nels (1922-2014)](https://hali.com/news/r-i-p-paul-nels-1922-2014/) - It is with the greatest sadness that we report the passing over the Easter weekend of Paul Nels, the doyen of the London Oriental carpet trade, at the age of 92. Involved to the last, Paul was a great character, a true Old World gentleman and bon viveur, generous to a fault, fluent in a - [Hamburg's 'Golden Knot’ exhibit ends 17th January 2014](https://hali.com/news/hamburgs-golden-knot-ends-17th-january-2014/) - Ending on 17 January 2014, the Motamedi family’s latest exhibition, ‘The Golden Knot’, is taking place within one of the giant neo-gothic warehouses that line the canals of Hamburg’s Port City. - [Franco Dell'Orto's New Venice Shop](https://hali.com/news/franco-dell-orto-new-venice-shop/) - The well-known Franco Dell'Orto antique carpet gallery in the charming San Marco area of central Venice, recently moved from it's previous location on Via XXII Marzo to nearby Calle delle Vetse. - [Art & Textiles from Klimt to the Present in Wolfsburg](https://hali.com/news/art-textiles-from-klimt-to-the-present/) - Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present will take place at the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, on view till 2 March 2014. - [Ian Bennett remembered](https://hali.com/news/ian-bennett-remembered/) - It was with great sadness that we heard of the peaceful passing of our old friend and former HALI colleague Ian Bennett, in Bath, England, during the Christmas break, aged 68. - [To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today](https://hali.com/news/carpets-and-textiles-from-distinguished-collections/) - The Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany will host To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today till 16 February 2014 - [Volkmar Gantzhorn receives Armenian award](https://hali.com/news/volkmar-gantzhorn-award/) - The Movses Khorenatsi Medal has been awarded to Volkmar Gantzhorn, for his huge tome The Christian Oriental Carpet, which has been revised and published in Armenia. - [Transylvania's carpet treasures come to Gdansk, Poland](https://hali.com/news/transylvanias-carpet-treasures-come-to-gdansk-poland/) - Two dozen important Turkish rugs from the collection of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania will be on display at the National Museum of Gdansk, Poland from 16th November 2013 to 16th February 2014. - [Lawrence Kearney - Skinner Boston's new Rug Man](https://hali.com/news/lawrence-kearney-skinner-bostons-new-rug-man/) - Following Gary Richards’ retirement, Skinner in Boston have appointed Lawrence Kearney as Specialist in the Oriental Rugs and Carpets department, where he will be assisted by Erika Jorjorian. Kearney, well known internationally as an independent dealer based in Massachusetts and as an engaging lecturer and writer (for HALI and, for those with long memories, Oriental Rug Review - [ARTS in San Francisco](https://hali.com/news/arts-opening-in-san-francisco/) - As in previous years the show, which included a handful of new exhibitors, lacked nothing in terms of the quality and variety of the material on offer, much of it at realistically accessible prices. - [Ancient & Modern Research Award 2013](https://hali.com/news/ancient-modern-research-award-2013/) - HALI and CORNUCOPIA announce Ancient & Modern: A Prize for Original Research also sponsored by Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's. The eighth annual grant of £1,000 for a research project to be awarded to a candidate younger than 25 or over the age of sixty. - [Vanderbilt Indian millefleurs carpet sells at Christie’s, London for £4.8 million.](https://hali.com/news/vanderbilt-indian-millefleurs-carpet-sells-at-christies/) - No Star like a good old Star: The Vanderbilt Indian pashmina millefleurs carpet at Christie’s, London. - [Suzanis in the Romain Zaleski collection](https://hali.com/news/suzanis-in-the-zaleski-collection/) - In HALI 176 we continued our survey of the Romain Zaleski, probably the world's largest private collection of oriental rugs and textiles. - [Save the Tropenmuseum!](https://hali.com/news/save-the-tropenmuseum/) - As the public face of the Royal Tropical Institute, the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is one of Europe's leading ethnographic museums and is set to close... - [HALI Contributing Editor Tom Murray joins Obama’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee](https://hali.com/news/hali-contributing-editor-joins-obamas-cultural-property-advisory-committee/) - President Barack Obama has revealed the appointment of HALI’s peripatetic Contributing Editor Thomas Murray to the US Government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee. ## Promos - [Nazmiyal - continuous sponsor](https://hali.com/promos/nazmiyal-valid-year/) - [Stockholms Auktionsverket temp](https://hali.com/promos/farzin-mollaian/) - [Mollain](https://hali.com/promos/delhi-fair/) - [Cornucopia](https://hali.com/promos/cornucopia/) - [Hagop Manoyan](https://hali.com/promos/hagop-manoyan/) - [HALI app](https://hali.com/promos/news-promo/) - [HALI Bookshop](https://hali.com/promos/hali-bookshop/) - [Jozan](https://hali.com/promos/jozan/) ## Book Reviews - [Chinese Silks, Edited by Dieter Kuhn & Zhao Feng](https://hali.com/reviews/chinese-silks-edited-dieter-kuhn-zhao-feng/) - The allure and lore of silk are legendary. The shimmering fibres and fabrics spun from a humble cocoon set the course for the culture, economy and splendour of China. ## Parting Shots - [Ballard at SLAM: A retrospective view](https://hali.com/shots/ballard-at-slam-a-retrospective-view/) - Now ended, 'The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs' the acclaimed Spring 2016 exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, with its fine catalogue by guest curator Walter B. Denny, attracted almost 14,000 visitors over its too brief ten-week run. A great antique oriental carpet show, but don't count on seeing anything - [The Winter Olympia Art & Antiques Fair 2015](https://hali.com/shots/the-winter-olympia-art-antiques-fair-2015/) - The Winter Olympia Art & Antiques Fair is open for business 2nd – 8th November 2015. The vetted event is run in association with both BADA and LAPADA and features a series of talks organised by the V&A. Chris & Angela Legge, Gallery Yacou, Brian Macdonald and Aaron Nejad are amongst the 120 exhibitors to - [Fine Art Asia 2015](https://hali.com/shots/fine-art-asia-2015/) - A selection of snapshots from Fine Art Asia 2015, Hong Kong (4-7 October 2015). - [Sartirana Album September 2015 ](https://hali.com/shots/sartirana-album-september-2015/) - This year's Sartirana Textile Art Show as always presented an excellent selection of antique oriental carpets and textiles. There were a few new faces, such as Max Lerch from Munich and Nasim Hakemie from Holland, as well as old hands like Bertram Frauenknecht and Tina Tabone. David Sorgato's exhibition was dedicated to Lao ceremonial textiles, - [Anahita – Arts of Asia Opens in Berlin](https://hali.com/shots/anahita-arts-of-asia/) - Anahita – Arts of Asia opened on Schlüterstraße 16 in Berlin on 4 September 2015. Founded by Anahita Sadighi, the new gallery features the antique arts of Asia in the form of paintings, ceramics, textiles and furniture from an expansive geographic area extending from ancient Persia, through Central Asia and the Himalayas, into China and Japan. An - [Safavid Carpets, Mughal Textiles: HALI tours Blythe House](https://hali.com/shots/safavid-carpets-mughal-textiles-hali-tours-blythe-house/) - As part of the programme of HALI Tour events in London in June 2015, a group visited the V&A stores at Blythe House, around the corner from Olympia. The tour was guided by curators Moya Carey, Tim Stanley and Rosemary Crill, with added expert commentary and lively discussion from Michael Franses and the entire Sotheby's - [Woven Connections by Samyama in Chiangmai](https://hali.com/shots/woven-connections-samyama-chiangmai/) - ‘Woven Connections’, a selling exhibition by Samyama, took place at Woo Gallery in Chiangmai, Thailand, from 18 to 22 January 2015. The purpose was to showcase the early connections of southeast Asian communities through the similarity of pattern and figurative motifs found in their native textiles. The exhibition saw some illustrious guests as well as textiles. - [San Francisco Tribal Art Association celebrates](https://hali.com/shots/sf-tribal-arts/) - Tom Cole reports: With initiative on the wane during uncertain economic times, the ‘San Francisco Tribal’ Art Association gathered on Friday 22 November 2014 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its founding, as well as the life of one of the true movers and shakers in the business, Bill Caskey. With so many of the core followers - [ARTS at the Capri](https://hali.com/shots/arts-capri/) - [ICOC Tour 2014 Vienna & Budapest](https://hali.com/shots/icoc-tour-2014-vienna-budapest/) - Around one hundred participants took part in the week long tour organised by Peter Bichler of the Society for Textile-Art Research (TKF) in association with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) 15 - 20 September 2014. Venues across Vienna hosted a full schedule of lectures, auctions and exhibitions for three days, before the group - [Sartirana Textile Show 2014](https://hali.com/shots/sartirana-textile-show-2014/) - Held in a picturesque 14th century old rice mill, La Pila, Sartirana’s tenth anniversary textile fair brought together an array of diverse rug and textile exhibitors. Organised by Alberto Boralevi, the show ran from Wednesday 10 September 2014 through Sunday 14 September at La Pila in Sartirana Castle, Lomellina. This selection of stand photos by Edoardo Marino give a taste of what was missed. - [Azerilme Gallery opening night in Moscow](https://hali.com/shots/azerilme-gallery-opening-night-moscow/) - A new carpet gallery has opened in Moscow, entitled Gallery Azerbaijani carpets: Legends of Knots. It is located on Kuznetskiy Most str. 19, bldng 1, Moscow. Here are some photos from the opening night. - [HALI UK Tour 2014](https://hali.com/shots/hali-uk-tour/) - 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. - [James Cohen at Art Antiques London](https://hali.com/shots/james-cohen-art-antiques-london/) - Art Antiques London takes place 11-18 June 2014 at the Albert Memorial West Lawn, Kensington Gardens, London. James Cohen shares images from the opening night. - [Samyama and Julia Boutique opening in Taipei](https://hali.com/shots/samyama-julia-boutique-opening-taipei/) - Two new high-end shops have joined the lively scene of Da-An road in Taipei; Julia Boutique and Samyama Co. Ltd. on Lane 119, No. 1. Julia Boutique on the first floor represents exclusively several major sought after fashion brand names such as Oscar de la Renta and Nina Ricci and Samyama on the second floor showcases some of - [David Sorgato's gallery opening](https://hali.com/shots/david-sorgatos-gallery-opening/) - [Textile tour in Thailand](https://hali.com/shots/silk-tour-thailand/) - An album of images taken by HALI Contributing Editor Cheri Hunter during last autumn's textile extravaganza in Thailand, including the symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok (see HALI 179, pp.114-5), visits to private collections of Thai textiles, and an up-country tour of Thai silk weaving villages . 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Through the themes of people and places and a wealth of objects, this beautifully illustrated little book provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the Ming period. The colourful - [Sonia Delaunay: Fashion & Fabrics](https://hali.com/titles/sonia-delaunay-fashion-fabrics/) - Sonia Delaunay: Fashion & Fabrics by Jacques Damase The Russian-born artist Sonia Delaunay, who with her husband, Robert Delaunay, was a leading light of the Cubist splinter group Orphism, branched out after the First World War into a distinctive career of her own. Between 1920 and 1930, a decade full of activity and success, she - [Carpets of the Art Deco Era](https://hali.com/titles/carpets-art-deco-era/) - Carpets of the Art Deco Era by Susan Day and Yves Mikaeloff The design revolutions of the early 20th century were woven into the very fabric of the carpets and rugs of that era. 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An essay by Shoji Sachiko- 'Are National Costumes Trade Textiles?: An - [Armenian Rugs and Textiles: An Overview of Examples from Four Centuries](https://hali.com/titles/armenian-rugs-textiles-overview-examples-four-centuries/) - Armenian Rugs and Textiles: An Overview of Examples from Four Centuries is the catalogue for an exhibition of rugs from public and private collections in the Republic of Armenia, the USA, France, Switzerland and Austria, organised by the Armenian Rug Society as part of the ICOC Tour Vienna-Budapest, September 2014. Includes an introductory message from - [Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy](https://hali.com/titles/turquerie-eighteenth-century-european-fantasy/) - Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy by Hayden Williams, Thames & Hudson, hardcover, 11 November 2014. Painstakingly researched from many sources, this is the first book to look at the artistic phenomenon known as turquerie. At the end of the 17th century, the long-standing fear of the Turk in Europe was gradually replaced by fascination. Travellers - [Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know, or the Weave of Textile Language ](https://hali.com/titles/richard-tuttle-dont-know-weave-textile-language/) - Richard Tuttle: I Don't Know, or the Weave of Textile Language, edited by Richard Tuttle, Magnus af Petersens and Achim Borchardt-Hume, October 2014. I Don't Know. 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