Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets
Held in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa, 'The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets' presents the 16th-century Persian Kerman 'Sanguszko-type' carpets together for the first time. More than four hundred carpets from the Kerman region are known from the 16th and 17th centuries. The…
Making Connections: the Role of Archives
In recent years, the opening up of museum and private archives, with increased online access to collections and information about them, has allowed textile researchers such as Ann French to build a more detailed picture of the interconnections between, and the methods used,…
Katie Welch · 21 min
Kazaks Revisited
Kazak rugs from the western Transcaucasus have long been a concentrated interest for US specialist collector/scholar Raoul Tschebull, who authored a seminal exhibition catalogue, Kazak, in 1971, and an often-cited article on Kazak design in the third issue of HALI in 1978. In…
Katie Welch · 16 min
Samuil Martinovich Dudin
At a time when travel is limited, we would like to highlight a man whose research and collecting journeys form the basis for much of our knowledge of Central Asian weaving culture.
Ladakh & Zanskar
Two types of traditional tie-dyed woollen garments from the Indian Himalayas – the liktse capes of Zanskar and Ladakhi women’s gonchas dresses – illustrate larger similarities and differences within a broader canon of regional material culture.
