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… Read more »
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.
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
Nazmiyal Auctions is set to sell 113 lots of antique and vintage carpets on Thursday 18 June 2020.
