Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Turkmen Rug Gift for Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven 'Ersari' Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Missing Rugs Alert
At some unspecified time or times during the past year, three readily identifiable antique oriental carpets have disappeared from a private collection in Europe. An appropriate reward is offered for information leading to their successful recovery. In the hope that the rugs…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Hamburg's 'Golden Knot’ exhibit ends 17th January 2014
Ending on 17 January 2014, the Motamedi family’s latest exhibition, ‘The Golden Knot’, is taking place within one of the giant neo-gothic warehouses that line the canals of Hamburg’s Port City.
Lucy Upward · 3 min
Turkish Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The last in the series of early HALI articles by the team of Donald King, Robert Pinner and Michael Franses on the carpets in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is an in-depth survey and detailed documentation of the museum's historical Turkish carpets…
Mohammad Tehrani opens new gallery in Hamburg
Mohammad Tehrani and his wife Sabine have just opened a new gallery at Alstertor 20 in Ecke Ballindam in the centre of Hamburg , while their old gallery in Neue Gröningerstrasse is now closed.
