Contents 6
In this issue Issue Spring
Compass Editorial Ben Evans introduces this issue’s theme of master weavers and workshops
Dialogue Two garden carpets in Scotland; Tunisian bakhnoug in Belgium; Joseph V. McMullan Award winners; Bonhams acquisitions; a Turkish weaving documentary preview
Diary Auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide
Calendar The listings page for the upcoming season
Thread of time Rachel Meek Attributions can change with the development of new technologies and reconfigured information
Travellers’ tales Cosima Stewart Turkey’s carpet museums and centres of traditional rug-making
P r o fi l e Rachel Meek His career at Cranbrook Academy of Art has seen Gerhardt Knodel continuously asking questions of woven textiles
Comment Rachel Meek Weaving language: Talim in Kashmir and Iranian pattern singing
Anatomy of an object A mysterious dated prayer rug in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Croatia, knotted somewhere in the Ottoman realm
Common thread Tulip blooms have long appeared in textiles as a motif demonstrating exceedingly good taste
Features A tapestry of conversation Berdj Achdjian The past, the present and the future of tapestry in Aubusson
Maghreb mastery Gebhart Blazek and Gus Cooney The master weavers of Morocco and Algeria played a crucial role in rural textile culture
Mancilawik: portrait of a batik entrepreneur Sandra Niessen The life and work of Yogyakarta atelier founder Wilhelmina Frederika van Lawick van Pabst
Masters of Persia Hadi Maktabi The urban workshop tradition in Persia—from the Timurid era to the 20th century
From Feshane to the palace Court-quality 19th-century custom carpets from the Feshane Imperial Factory