CONTENTS

i i I EDITORIAL

The 2002 HALI Fair; looking to the future of DOBAG; reflections on the state of carpet studies:

13 |LETTERS

Setting the record straight on Tajik bridal veils; Javanese celebrity portraits; experimenting with Saxe Blue.

15 |NEWS

The hunt is on at Galerie Blondeel Deroyan, Paris; a Lakai break for the BM. London; rug ventures in Dorking for ionathan Wadsworth; in memory of classical carpet collector Baron Thyssen and HALI's former rep Omer Umar.

19 I FRAGMENTS

(an Van Eyck creates texture in paint at the Groeningemuseum; flying the flag for Cornwall's Eden Project; rugs and racing cars at CNY; upcoming textile conferences in Calcutta and Hangzhou.

27 |PREVIEW

Exhibitions: Continuity and change in Anatolian carpets at the TM in Washington; henna-painted textiles at the Bellerive Museum, Zurich prove their magic; Mr Tairov's silk ikats in Moscow. Plus: A gathering of Cassirer carpets in the Islamic Art Museum, Berlin; the RISD displays Lucy Aldrich's kesa collection; prayer rugs show their diversity in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a touch of velvet at the Wadsworth Atheneum; TKF celebrate twenty years with an exhibition and more in Linz.

37 ICALEN DAR

Aworldwide listing of auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences.

41 |ISLAMIC ART

Sea monsters, giants and heroes reunited at the Sackler Museum, Washington, for an exhibition of paintings from the great Mughal Hamzanama: a season of auctions in London and Paris brings a new world record price; Sabanci Museum opens in Istanbul: Calderwood Collection for the Harvard's Sackler; hunting images at the British Museum; Islamic art from Polish Collections exhibited in Warsaw.

49 IBOOKS

Fabulous Creatures from the Desert Sands, the catalogue to the Abegg Foundation's exhibition of early woollen tapestries from Shanpula, reviewed by Nancy Hoskins; Linda Woolley on a meticulous catalogue of Coptic textiles Ancient Tapestries o f the R. Pfister Collection in the Vatican Library by Daniel De Jonghe et al.

51 ITITLES RECEIVED

A selection of recently published books and catalogues.

53 I E-VI EW

Rachel Evans takes a hard look at the glitches and glories of HALI.com

61 |FORUM

Christine Klose finds strong evidence to support the proposition that the al-Sabah Ushak medallion carpet in the Kuwait National Museum is one of the earliest of its type. Just look at the border.

65 |A MISSION

TO CENTRAL ASIA S.M. Dudin’s Journey in 19001902 to Bukhara, Samarkand and Beyond Elena Kordik, with photography by S.M. Dudin Samuil Martynovich Dudin’s acumen as a collector of Turkmen rugs was fuelled during several expeditions to Central Asia. By 1900 his skills as a photographer and researcher were already well known, and he was recruited by the Russian Museum to join one of their most adventurous expeditions. In difficult and sometimes dangerous situations, Dudin recorded the landscapes and lives of the people, with an artist’s eye, great patience and meticulous honesty.

70 ] R U G S OF

T H E FORTY TRIBES Seyfullah Turkkan Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, an influx of antique Kirghiz rugs has entered the Western market, mainly through the Istanbul bazaar, offering ample opportunity for study and appreciation of a previously little-

known genre. Beginning with the research of early Russian and Soviet period scholars, the author examines the techniques, traditions and often confusingly disparate decorative repertoire o f these Turkic nomads.

79 ITHE HALI GALLERY

A house style advertisement section.

87 |REVI EW

Exhibitions: Ivan Da Silva Bruhns at Blondeel-Deroyan Gallery in Paris; majestic tapestries at the Royal Palace, Stockholm; the BM pays tribute to the Queen of Sheba; Ulrich Ahlheim’s 10th anniversary exhibition in CastropRauxel; eye-dazzling kilims at Augsburg College in Minneapolis; Seven Steps of Perfection at the Russian Ethnographic Museum, St Petersburg; the Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart revisits Uzbekistan. Conferences: Lull coverage of ACOR 6 in Indianapolis including the new improved hands-on' academic programme, Dealer's Row, Baluch and other special exhibitions, and Moroccan carpets and textiles at the IMA.

105 |AUCTION PRICE GUIDE

Aworld record price for any textile at auction is paid for an embroidered imperial thangka in Hong Kong; plus a close inspection of the April rug sales.

115 |DESIGN FILE

Putting Stella Benjamin under the spotlight; how Christopher Farr and Matthew Bourne inject the Zeitgeist into contemporary carpets.

123 |NETWORK

A classified advertisement section.

129 |PRO FI LE

Tony Hazledine on Harald Bohmer and his pilgrimage of colour.

130 |PARTI NG SHOTS

Rug addicts gather for ACOR 6 and at the HALI Fair.

132 j LAST PAGE

Peter Pap's personal view of the history and politics of the antique rug market.

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