Persian New Year: The Shrine Carpets of Mashhad
Join HALI and celebrate Nowruz with a special lecture by Dr Hadi Maktabi on 6 April 2017 at 7pm at the V&A in London, followed by a drinks reception.
News: museum collections
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International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017)
The fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017), titled ‘Traditions and Innovations’ will happen 17-20 October 2017 in Baku in partnership with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC).
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Rediscovery of a Tudor Dress Fragment
Curators from the Historic Royal Palaces in the UK have identified an embroidered altar cloth as a rare fragment of Elizabethan dress.
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From HALI 187: Tales of Far Magic, Unrolled…
More than nine metres long, The British Museum’s ‘Cloth of Vrindavan’ is the focus of the current exhibition ‘Krishna in the Garden of Assam’.
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Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean
The British School at Athens is organising a workshop titled ‘Textiles & Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern Mediterranean: Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges’ to take place on 3-4 June 2016.
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Ballard Rugs Exhibit in St Louis, March–May 2016
‘The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs’ is on display at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA, from 6 March – 8 May 2016.
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Rarely Seen Oriental Rugs from the W. Parsons Todd Collection
The Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ presents ‘Antique Carpets Through the Eyes of W. Parsons’, which features seventeen rarely seen antique carpets and related books that informed rug collectors in the early 20th century.
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The Sun King’s Tapestries
‘Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum (until
1 May 2016) in Los Angeles is the first major museum exhibition of tapestries on the West Coast in four decades. -
Volkmann-Treffen 2015
The 2015 edition of Volkmann-Treffen will take place on 16–18 October 2015 at the Museum für Islamische Kunst/Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin.
