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
The exhibition ‘Tsutsugaki: Japanese Indigo-dyed Textiles’ at the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet in Paris until 10 October 2013, brings together works taken from the museum’s Krishna Riboud/AEDTA Collection, from a private collection and from Japanese collections, including pieces that have never left the country before.
More than 65 prestigious exhibitors will be showing at the 4th annual Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art, taking place from 9 to 13 August 2013 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Two brand new, searchable, illustrated databases aim to share the artistry and study of American Southwestern textiles with the world.
An inspirational exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, until 22 September 2013, features over 200 years of British quilt-making.
In HALI 176 we continued our survey of the Romain Zaleski, probably the world’s largest private collection of oriental rugs and textiles.
Frank Martin Diehr reports: On the second weekend in June, the tiny village of Taura, near Chemnitz in Saxony became the hub of the Baluch collecting world, with participants in annual German-speaking Baluch collectors’ meeting coming from as far afield as the USA and Sweden.
An upcoming exhibition at The International Design Museum, Munich, will center on the collection of Munich architect Professor Jürgen Adam, from 29 September 2013 till 6 January 2014.
A stunning exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art features more than 60 pieces of antique textile art from North and Sub-Saharan Africa from the museum’s diverse collection of African textiles, one of the most comprehensive in the USA.
The 17th-century Turkish tent on display at the Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, is the largest of its kind in Poland, and is one of the most valuable historical mementoes in the Wawel collection and indeed all of Europe.
