Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
In-Depth on hali.com
HALI In-depth has a steady stream of long articles about oriental rugs and carpets taken from the extensive HALI archive. The latest article that has been posted is about East Mediterranean carpets from the V&A, first published 1981
East Mediterranean Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The third of HALI's occasional series of In-Depth articles on the carpet collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, on the Mamluk, Cairene Ottoman and other classical East Mediterranean types, was published in HALI 4/1 1981 . The collection is introduced by Keeper of…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Caucasian Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, HALI published an occasional (and still incomplete) series of articles that feature and analyse the carpet collections in London's Victoria and Albert Museum . The history of the collection was written by Donald King, the then Keeper of…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Austria’s Newest Auctioneer
The first sale organised by Udo Langauer's new Austria Auction Company (AAC) will take place in downtown Vienna on 21 September 2013 at 4 pm, at Novomatic Forum in Friedrichstraße. The inaugural consignment will include between 180 and 200 high quality collectable antique…
Fabulous textiles on show in Cleveland
On 30 June 2013, The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its new North Wing galleries with an inaugural exhibition ‘Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900’, which reveals the museum's exceptional oriental textiles collection to the world for the first time in almost a decade
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