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.
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.
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.
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.
The annual AOA (Africa, Oceana and the Americas) Tribal Art Fair takes place 14 – 18 May 2014 on the Upper East Side, New York.
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.
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.
In signature style, ancient, antique & ethnographic textile art will be juxtaposed with works by contemporary fibre artists Polly Barton and James Bassler.
Parcours des Mondes is returning for its twelfth year as the most prestigious European show of tribal art, with sixty galleries participating in 2013
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
