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110 Burgundia ncourt textiles in ‘Charles the Bold’
FRONTLINES
LETTERS Rainer Kreissl’s Anatolians; Umberto Sorgato and Peter Collingwood remembered 23 NEWS Qatar museum opens with a bang; the Barbara Z. Sedlin Collection goes under
Sotheby’s hammer; rock crystal at Christie’s London
ENEWS A summary of the best on www.hali.com and the rest of the web
PROFILE H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse talk about their years collecting post-war
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British textiles and their exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
POSTCARD from Moldova: Aaron Nejad delves into what the sometimes sketchy
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attribution of 'Bessarabia'really means
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FROM THE ARCHIVE A journey with A. Cecil Edwards – photographs of 1940s Iran 37 FORUM Moroccan Berber textiles: have we arrived at clarity? A discussion of the
elaborate Costumes Berbères du Maroc by Marie Rose Rabaté and Frieda Sorber
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MASTERPIECE A 19th century sash from the Caroline Islands, Micronesia
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MARKET REPORT Something Boro, something blue: indigo-dyed patchworks from Japan 44
FEATURES
CULTURAL CHRONICLES
CONFESSIONS OF A JEWISH CARPET COLLECTOR
HALI talks to Anton Felton, author of Jewish Carpetsand collector of the same, about how
these textiles are important markers of an ancient civilisation
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NAZCA YANTRA
JAMES W. REID
The author considers in detail a Nazca tapestry band, and raises questions about the meaning
and identity of its vibrant, imposing, frontal figures
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THE PIONEERS
THOMAS J. FARNHAM
With the Hajji Baba Club’s 75th anniversary exhibition ‘Timbuktu to Tibet’ firmly
ensconced in Washington DC, this is a timely publication of the lecture delivered by the
club’s historian at the exhibition’s New York launch in April 2008
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PEDRO MOURA CARVALHO
The author examines the magnificent Indo-Portuguese figural embroidery in Boston’s Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, which formed the centrepiece of their recent exhibition:‘Luxury for
Export: Artistic Exchange Between India and Portugal around 1600’
A TALE OF TWO TENTS
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STEPHANIE BUNN & CHRISTINE MARTENS
An exploration of two little-known, closely related, yet culturally distinct textiles – the Kyrgyz
tush ki’izand the Kazakh tus ki’iz; both made by pastoral nomads as wall-hangings for their felt yurts
CONTEXT
EXHIBITIONS London shows ‘Byzantium’ at the Royal Academy and ‘Asian Textiles’ at
Francesca Galloway in Mayfair; ‘TxtStyles: Fashioning Identity’ at the National Museum of African
Art inWashington DC;Qing robes on show in Beijing for possibly the last time;
‘Charles the Bold’ in Bern; two textile fairs reviewed: Sartirana, Italy and Santa Fe, NM 109 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide 128 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in NY, London, Stuttgart and Wiesbaden 133 BOOKS Jon Thompson reviews Harald Böhmer’s Nomads in Anatolia;
Edward Stott welcomes Three Camels to Smyrna; Walter B. Denny on In Praise of Godby
Michael Franses et al.; Divinità, Scimmie E Segni Zodiacali reviewed by Guy Delmarcel 138 DESIGN FILE Woven Legends: Colin Wilde begins an occasional series covering
some of the great modern masters of carpet production
PARTING SHOTS Hamburg to Qatar via Vienna and Moldova
FIRST VIEW A preview of St Louis collector Paul Cahn’s two 19th century weavings
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