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The HALI Colloquium in Italy: Florence, Milan, Turin and Genoa
HALI has organised a series of special events in Italy to precede the two-day colloquium Kerman Carpets of the Safavid Period (1501-1736) in Genoa, organised in memory of Alessandro Bruschettini, the renowned collector of Islamic art. Conceived as a celebration of the wealth…
The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets
Held in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa, 'The Magnificent Sanguszko Carpets' presents the 16th-century Persian Kerman 'Sanguszko-type' carpets together for the first time. More than four hundred carpets from the Kerman region are known from the 16th and 17th centuries. The…
Katie Welch · 3 min
15th Sartirana Textile Show
The annual Sartirana Textile Show will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a special event in a grand historical exhibition venue in the northwest Italian city of Turin.
Katie Welch · 2 min
Safavid number games in Sarajevo
In HALI 195 of Spring 2018, Fatima Žutić reports on the long-unseen but often-mentioned 17th-century Kerman ‘vase technique’ carpet fragments, revealed to the public in February of this year at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Williamsburg and on show until…
Ottoman and Safavid carpets in London
Thursday 26 April 2018 was a very good day for classical-period carpets in the London salerooms.
