Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Profile: Cathryn Cootner
Cathryn Cootner—collector, dealer, author, lecturer and formerly curator of textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—passed away earlier this year after a mercifully short battle with cancer. In HALI 209, a self portrait has been compiled by Thomas Cole
The Orient Stars Collection
Watch a new feature length film on The Orient Stars Collection of rugs and textiles acquired by Heinrich and Waltraut Kirchheim
Katie Welch · 1 min
Fabulous creatures
Dating and attributing origins to antique rugs from Anatolia is an area of scholarship rife with conjecture and contention. Having researched carpets in the Orient Stars collection for the forthcoming Orient Stars 2, Michael Franses notes the pitfalls awaiting those who…
Katie Welch · 7 min
Travellers' Tales: Declarations of Independence
Cosima Stewart celebrates her love of Georgia—and the textile traditions that exemplify the country’s unique culture and spirit
The Arts of Iran Now and Then
With a new exhibition of Iranian art opening in the British capital, we look back at the ground-breaking 1931 ‘International Exhibition of Persian Art’
