Issue 229 · Autumn 2026
The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
HALI 229 offers a comprehensive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry, the embroidery currently on show in an immensely popular British Museum exhibition. Meanwhile, the Koldinghus Museum, Denmark, focuses on how woven imagery has carried different messages across the centuries.
Highlights from this issue
A selection of 5
- FeatureIssues raised by the 1976 World of Islam Festival in London, fifty years on
- FeatureA Rabat-based collector explains his fascination with curtains from his home city
- FeatureA visit to the MAK, Vienna, prompts questions about the role of a great museum
- FeatureKashmiri shawls at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts
- FeatureSilk mantles of Madagascar at Cleveland Museum of Art