Issue 218 · Winter 2023
Books, carpets and textiles
HALI 218 explores the relationship between books and textiles. Rosemary Crill reveals a totally new source of textiles across a wide range of dates and places: the cloth used in Armenian and Ethiopian book bindings.
Highlights from this issue
A selection of 5
- FeatureA Kashmir shawl once owned by Queen Victoria
- FeatureAn 18th-century volume of cloth samples tells of rivalry, espionage and fierce ambition
- Common ThreadThe use, circulation and creation of textiles in books
- FeatureEight specialists discuss a ‘book’ that they consider to be exceptional
- FeatureThe fascinating, frustrating and fabulous 1905 book, T. H. Hendley’s Asian Carpets