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Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Silk and Splendour: A Man's Surcoat from Uzbekistan
Editor's choice this week was made in the professional workshops of Shakhrisyabz for a wealthy patron: a silk-embroidered surcoat as striking today as when it was made
A Kashmir Enigma: Mughal Kani Patka at the MFAH
Editor's Choice: a rare shawl fragment from the al-Sabah Collection on view in A 'From Persia to Paisley: Global Luxury and the Kashmir Shawl' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Ben Evans · 4 min
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
Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design, 22 January 2022
'Indian Textiles:1,000 years of art and design' opens from 22 January to 6 June 2022 and is accompanied by a limited-edition catalogue which includes essays by leading historians of Indian textiles, including Rosemary Crill, Steven Cohen, Avalon Fotheringham and Sylvia…
Thread of Time: A Turkish Prayer Rug and a Nigerian Hausa or Nupe Robe
In HALI 205, Rachel Meek presents two Islamic textiles from earlier centuries with talismanic properties. One’s decoration provided protection, the other’s required it
