Beyond El Dorado at The British Museum
Exploring the truth behind the legend of El Dorado, the British Museum focuses on Colombian culture before the 16th-century Spanish invasion.
Exploring the truth behind the legend of El Dorado, the British Museum focuses on Colombian culture before the 16th-century Spanish invasion.
Michael Phillips writes: After a long battle with serious health problems, Ronald Franklin Hort passed away shortly after returning home from exhibiting at last October’s Antique Rug and Textile Show in San Francisco.
Henri Daumas writes: For a long time I was unaware of Toni Hutmacher. I met him a good while after I had met his wife, Arlette Bollag, a lively woman with a charismatic personality and an infectious love for old kilims.
‘Ram Horns and Scorpion Tails: Textiles from Uzbekistan’, which opened on 8 November 2013 in in the new Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary, features a selection of Uzbek rural flatwoven and embroidered textiles and knotted pile rugs from the Jean and Marie Erikson Collection.
Without doubt ARTS at the Capri in October makes San Francisco Rug Week the most important annual event in the rug calendar. A review of the event will appear in the next of HALI published on 23 December but here we continue our pictorial review of what went on at the 2013 edition.
Richard Mull writes: Tom Cole’s home/gallery in San Rafael, California, with the regular receptions and exhibitions he hosts, is now something of an anachronism in the Bay Area rug world.
Rippon Boswell will hold their autumn sale of Collector Rugs and Textiles in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 30th November 2013. The auction is open to preview daily from Wednesday 27th until the morning of the sale.
Ever wondered what the toxins you use to kill the moths might do to you? Ever used Eulan on a rug? Struggled to find the right solution to restore or mount a textile? The participants at this year’s Volkmanntreffen certainly had some good questions
Carpet and textile participation at London’s Winter Olympia Fair is at an all time low, with just three exhibitors this year: Christopher and Angela Legge, Brian MacDonald, and Gallery Yacou.
The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, will present In Grand Style: Celebrations in Korean Art during the Joseon Dynasty, on view 25 October 2013 – 12 January 2014.