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 most comprehensive survey of Madge Gill’s work to date.
The force and creative vision of West African artist El Anatsui will be celebrated at the October Gallery later this month.
The annual Caskey/Lees San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show will open on 7 February at the Fort Mason Center.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
