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… Read more »
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.
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.
The most comprehensive survey of Madge Gill’s work to date.
‘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.
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.
