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Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
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…
'Beyond Utility: Rugs of Southwest Persia'
This online exhibition of sixteen rugs from Southwest Persia tells a complex story of the way these peoples were able to capture the minds and markets of the world for their designs and provides an excellent opportunity to view some outstanding examples of the beauty of…
Katie Welch · 2 min
Fabulous creatures
Dating and attributing origins to antique rugs from Anatolia is an area of scholarship rife with conjecture and contention. Having researched carpets in the Orient Stars collection for the forthcoming Orient Stars 2, Michael Franses notes the pitfalls awaiting those who…
Katie Welch · 7 min
Striking Simplicity
In conjunction with the publication of his article 'Striking simplicity’ in HALI 204, Gebhart Blazek celebrates the distinctive qualities of Moroccan flatweaves with an exhibition of Moroccan kilims at his gallery in Graz from 5 September to 3 October
'Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace, Bolzano (Bozen)
‘Symbols and Colors in Caucasian and Alpine Carpets’, Mercantile Museum and Mercantile Palace in Bolzano (Bozen), exhibition review by Ben Evans from HALI 201.
