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Kamilah Ahmed's Jamdani-inspired installation at Leighton House
The Bangladeshi weaving tradition of Jamdani served as the primary inspiration for Kamilah Ahmed's site-specific installation, presented as part of the exhibition 'The Arab Hall: Past and Present' (21 March–4 October 2026)
Beyond the Silk Road, Across the Seas: Inside the 9th IASSRT Conference
Scholars from Asia, the Americas and Europe met at UC Berkeley for IASSRT's 9th conference, exploring Silk Road textiles, ikat, chintz and trade across centuries.
Joan Hart · 4 min
Interwoven at HAB Budapest paired historic carpets with contemporary art
At HAB, the Hungarian Art & Business centre in Budapest, 'Interwoven: Stories Thread by Thread' brought antique carpets and contemporary paintings into direct conversation, asking how textiles and canvases record memory, belief and cultural experience across centuries
HALI magazine · 4 min
Aymara Weavings: Indigenous Andean Textiles at the Saint Louis Art Museum
A landmark exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum presents Aymara weavings from the Bolivian highlands, revealing how Indigenous artists preserved and reinvented ancient textile traditions through the colonial and early republican periods
First Faig Ahmed exhibition in Baku
Carpets by the contemporary Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed are being exhibited in his home country for the first time