This week on hali.com, a Sichuan brocade helps explain today's total solar eclipse, while a related third century Sichuan textile, the "Five stars rising in the East" armband, connects directly to the rare alignment of six planets over the dawn sky. Bonhams Skinner previews its antique carpets and American furniture sale, which includes 33 lots from the prestigious James D. Burns collection.
A pictorial review of the Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show in Santa Fe is forthcoming, as is a look at the work of Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers, drawn from "Anni Albers. Constructing Textiles," as it closes at the Lower Belvedere, Vienna, before it closes on 16 August.
Embroidery Traditions of Afghanistan, at SOAS Gallery in London and drawn from the Karun Thakar collection, will receive attention with comments from international visitors, as will Karun Thakar's own "Journeys" exhibitions of global textiles at three National Trust properties: Osterley Park and House in London, Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire, and Blickling Estate in Norfolk.
