Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Suzanis in the Romain Zaleski collection
In HALI 176 we continued our survey of the Romain Zaleski, probably the world's largest private collection of oriental rugs and textiles.
Turkmen Rugs in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The first of the extended series of In-Depth HALI magazine articles on the Oriental carpet collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, by HALI's then editors Robert Pinner and Michael Franses, with an introduction to the history of the collection by the V&A's Keeper of…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Bonhams Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale in Los Angeles and San Francisco, 29 July 2013
Alone among the major international auction houses, Bonhams still has dedicated North American sales of Oriental rugs and carpets, mainly in their West Coast salerooms, but also occasionally in New York. We show a selection of lots that will be offered simultaneously in Los…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
The Qaraqalpaq Dialectic: Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta: The Right to Reply
In HALI 175 (Spring 2013, pp.124-127), Andrew Hale reviewed David and Sue Richardson’s ‘encyclopaedic’ new book, Qaraqalpaqs of the Aral Delta . The full version of his review was published on this site. Here the Richardsons address what they consider to be serious flaws in…
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…
