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Fabricating the world | A Melbourne study series curated by Susan Scollay
HALI contributor, Dr Susan Scollay has curated a study series outlining the importance of textiles in the ancient world at the The Johnston Collection Museum in Melbourne.
Traded Treasures: Indian Textiles for Global Markets
Currently on show at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, 'Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets', spans five hundred years of the history of India’s thriving commerce to Southeast Asia, Europe, and Japan, an exhibition that reveals why…
Katie Welch · 5 min
A living collection at HALI London
Visiting Anglo-Canadian collector Bob Bell at his home in the Cotswolds, Aaron Nejad finds a passionate, experienced and well-informed man who lives surrounded by an eclectic array of rugs, and who, despite the demands of a busy professional career, always finds time to enjoy…
Katie Welch · 8 min
‘Ancient Textiles from the Andes’, at The Whitworth
A special exhibition of ancient Andean textiles will be on show at The Whitworth Museum in Manchester, 29 March-15 September 2019.
A Salor Turkmen kejebe trapping
In HALI 198, Executive Editor of HALI Daniel Shaffer examines a rare and majestic Salor Turkmen ceremonial camel trapping from a Swedish private collection that was offered for sale in December 2018 at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
