Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.

At Frieze Masters, a Mughal shrub carpet from the Jaipur royal collection on Moshe Tabibnia’s stand stood out for its original rectangular format, its distinguished provenance and a red that lasts

My Editor’s choice this week is the Bernheimer Safavid ‘Vase’-technique fragment, which made $448,000 at Sotheby’s Magnum Opus evening sale. It is still rising in value 30 years on.
Ben Evans · 4 min
A weekly round-up of what is happening in the world of carpets and textiles through the lens of hali.com
Hali magazine · 3 min
A weekly round-up of what is happening in the world of carpets and textiles through the lens of hali.com

This week’s Editor’s Choice: A Tibetan tiger rug from the Rudi Molacek Collection, in which a pelt dissolves into near-abstraction, and a meditation seat carries the weight of fearlessness and spiritual protection.

HALI's longest serving advertiser, Werner Brändl from Galerie Kelim, Würzburg, has passed away.