Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Thai Textiles in Focus
'Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time', the first international symposium to take place at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (QSMT) in Bangkok, Thailand took place from 5 - 9 November 2013. The event offered special opportunities to see behind the scenes at the new museum…
Marino Dall'Oglio for HALI Magazine
In memory of the noted Oriental carpet collector, Dr Marino Dall'Oglio of Milan, who passed away peacefully on Thursday, 21st November 2013, we publish here five articles written by him. The first, on 'White Ground Anatolian Carpets' was first given as a paper to the 1983…
Lucy Upward · 1 min
V&A Opens Clothworkers' Centre at Blythe House
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion has just opened at Blythe House, near Olympia in west London, offering unprecedented access to the museum’s textiles. Situated on the third and fourth floors, the huge…
Lucy Upward · 3 min
From HALI 175, When horses wore silk & gold by Barbara Karl
The full article from the MAK curator, Barbara Karl, including footnotes and bibliography.
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…
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