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Photos from Cheri Hunter's tour of Iran, February 2015. A 12 day HALI Tour to Iran will take place in October 2016

'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
First Glance – Second Look: Quilts at the Denver Art Museum by Dale Carolyn Gluckman
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Michael Franses tells the remarkable story of his 34-year quest to find the missing 16th-century classical Chinese carpets of the Chinese Imperial household.

The first comprehensive retrospective of work by the ‘father of modern Iranian sculpture’, Parvis Tanavoli at a US museum is to be held at The Davis Collection at Wellesley College, MA, 10 February – 7 June 2015.

The Berlin artist/art dealer Hamid Sadighi is descended from Southwest Persian tribal khans. Until 30 November 2014, the exhibition '100 Kelims' representing about one third of his collection of 19th century Persian tribal and nomadic flatweaves (arguably the world's best),…