Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.

This year heralds a new and important chapter in the life of HALI by virtue of the launch of the HALI Archive: the contents of every single page of every issue of HALI available free to subscribers. The first issue of HALI through to the most recent issue, every article and…

The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets.
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
Two striking Tibetan rugs are amongst the 120 objects that feature in ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ on show at Wellcome Collection, London to 28 February 2016.

View the brochure for the next HALI Tour to Armenia & Georgia, 7 - 16 May 2016, with exclusive access to carpets and textiles in museum stores & private collections.

Three North African highlights from the recent Gros & Delettrez sale in Paris.