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Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Lyon - Splendours in the City of Silk: 1. Textiles, by Georgina Adam
In the mid 1980s HALI published a series of four articles on the textiles and carpets in the collection of the Musée Historique des Tissus (MHT) in Lyons, France. The first article, by Georgina Adam, in HALI 32, focused on a select handful of the historical textiles in Lyon,…
Caucasian 'Shield' Carpets by Michael Franses and Robert Pinner, 1978
Caucasian Shield Carpets' by Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, published in 1978 in the inaugural issue of HALI magazine, remains to this day the definitive study of these 17th and 18th century carpets with variants of the classical shield palmette design.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Classical Carpets - Berlin’s War Losses at the Old Mint
Among the add-ons during the recent BARE antique carpet and textile art fair at the Old Mint in Berlin was an evocative special documentary photo exhibition, ‘Schicksalsnacht im Tresorraum der Alten Münze – Das Ende der bedeutenden Sammlung Bodes’ (Fateful Night in the Vault…
Daniel Shaffer · 5 min
Textile and tribal art highlights at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair
The 41st Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, 6th-16th June 2013, is a constant in the rapidly changing landscape of art fairs in London and thus remains an excellent event for all tastes and pockets.
Imperial Puzzle: Sixteenth-Century Persian Spiral-Vine Carpets with Animals, by Christine Klose
Made possible by careful research and persistent 'detective' work, tThe late Dr Christine Klose's reconstruction of the extent of a highly regarded design type of early Safavid ‘Hunting’ carpets through a comparative survey of known carpets and carpet fragments.
