Exhibition Review: Look at the Rugs—Find Me
To celebrate the jubilee of Swedish carpet designer Märta Måås-Fjetterström, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden initiated an exhibition of her life’s work
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Auction review: Liberté for the carpet fraternity
An auction in Rouen, capital of Normandy, marked the lifting of many Covid-19 restrictions in France, and a case of miscataloguing and low estimates brought together the European trade hoping for bargains
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Anatomy of an object: Ainu attush robe
Here we reveal an exemplary Ainu ceremonial garment from Hokkaido
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Editor’s Choice: Northwest Persian Harshang Carpet
For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different.
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Preview: Collection of Rugs and Textiles from American and European Estates, Nazmiyal Auctions
Nazmiyal Auctions is set to sell 113 lots of antique and vintage carpets on Thursday 18 June 2020.
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Editor’s Choice: East-central Anatolian Rug Fragment
For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different.
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Undiscovered Minimalism
Werner Weber’s kilims from Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran are currently on show at the Historical and Ethnological Museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, until 30 January 2021.
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Editor’s Choice: East Anatolian Rug
For more than forty years HALI has found and published some of the most important and beautiful rugs and textiles in the world. The many different paths we have followed to find interesting pieces—auctions, collector meetings and conferences, dealers’ exhibitions and adverts—have been a constant source of wonder and excitement in our pages. Illustrating gems we have discovered and wanted to share has tended to be confined to an appropriate context. Here we are attempting something different.
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Around the World in Tie-dye
In HALI 201, we looked at tie-dye and other ‘shaped-resist’ textiles, which are culturally ubiquitous.
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HALI: The India Edition
More than ever are we reminded of the interconnected nature of our world. In his editorial for HALI: The India Edition, Ben Evans muses on how this fact and its historical significance can be understood through the lens of Indian textiles.
