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Textiles assembled by seven pioneering collectors, active between 1900 and 2018, and drawn from seven public collections in the UK were the focus of the annual exhibition (25 January-19 April 2020) held at Two Temple Place on London’s Embankment.

Celebrating 40 years and 200 editions of HALI magazine, HALI London was the first London festival devoted to the art and history of textiles.
Katie Welch · 2 min
With The HALI Pavilion, The Rug Show New York now truly covers the whole spectrum of fine handmade rugs.
Katie Welch · 1 min
The most comprehensive survey of Madge Gill’s work to date.

Members of a migrant-volunteer programme in Oxford are behind a new display of textiles at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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.