Turkmen Rug Gift for Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven ‘Ersari’ Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven ‘Ersari’ Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Mohammad Tehrani and his wife Sabine have just opened a new gallery at Alstertor 20 in Ecke Ballindam in the centre of Hamburg , while their old gallery in Neue Gröningerstrasse is now closed.
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
HALI In-depth has a steady stream of long articles about oriental rugs and carpets taken from the extensive HALI archive. The latest article that has been posted is about East Mediterranean carpets from the V&A, first published 1981
In response to popular demand, ‘Skill of the Hand, Delight of the Eye’, the Sadberk Hanım Museum’s current exhibition in Istanbul of of Turkish embroidery has been extended until the end of June 2013.