ISSUE 119 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001
CONTENTS
9 |EDITORIAL
ASeptember that wewill never forget. 11 |LETTERS
Kutch earthquake and Bhuj's embroidered dado; copies are not clones; homing suzanis; Russian printed cottons. 15 |NEWS
October rug sales; market moves and openings; SLOappoints a new London head of carpets; FAMSFhost tribal gala. 17 |FRAGMENTS
Navajo spun in glass; newBritish design galleries for the V&A; pests galore debated at the British Library: ETN European tours; MaxBerk's museum. 21 i POSTCARD
Aremote archipelago three day's sailing beyond Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands and their inhabitants exercise a potent magic over all those who step ashore. Jenny Balfour Paul finds tapa. tattooing and abundant peace in Fatu Hiva. 41 |PREVIEW
Exhibitions: Indar Pasricha shows textiles; Berber rugs at Alberto Levi; hidden textiles at the Scottish National Museum; Turkmen and more at Krausse in Munich. Fairs: Anewdedicated textile art fair takes the floor, this time in Milan. Auctions: Turkish carpets from the James Lucas Estate at SNY. 47|CALEN DAR
Aworldwide listing of auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences. 53 |BERLIN FOCUS
Carpet, textile and Islamic art in one of Europe's most exciting cultural centres. 59 | ISLAMIC ART
The joys of the bath and the benefits of train travel are among matters considered by paper conservator Helen Eoveday; James Allan reads between the lines of the Es-Said Islamic Metalwork; exhibitions in Paris; auctions in London and Paris; rescuing Little Hagia Sophia: a new director for the Islamic Museum in Berlin.
63 |BOOKS
Andy Hale discusses The Kyrgyz Carpet, George O’Bannon &Ovadan K. Amanova's edited translations of K.E Antipina and L.G. Beresneva's Soviet-style contributions to the subject. 73 |F0 RUM
Perhaps the geometric nature of Navajo weavings explains why scholars have claimed open season for interpreting their supposed spiritual and symbolic meanings. Arecent study proved to be the last straw, as Rufus Cohen explains. 74 |BARDINI, CLASSICAL
CARPETS AND AMERICA Thomas J. Farnham Stefano Bardini of Florence was an antiquarian in the grand old 19th century manner. In that extraordinary heyday of collectorship, the past was a limitless Aladdin's cave filled to bursting with artefacts of every kind. Among these, unclassified, misunderstood but nevertheless dimly apprehended, were great early carpets. Through Bardini, many would find their way for the first time into American collections such as those of Rev. Charles F.,Williams, Charles T. Yerkes, Stanford White, Herbert L. Pratt, Benjamin Altman and HenryWalters. 86 |A FORETASTE
OF PARADISE Indian Export Needlework Lanto Synge The Indian idiom has been so far assimilated into English embroidery, that we scarcely now perceive it as 'oriental'. The story of how this came about begins over four centuries ago. with the establishing of a trading link that brought to successive generations the rich colour and elegant style of the Subcontinent's textile traditions. 94 | A TIBETAN SADDLE RUG
Thomas Cole Sharp-eyed as ever, on the eve of a festival in Kathmandu our friend unexpectedly stumbles on aHimalayan saddle rugwith adifference. In design, weave and patina it evokes for him the distant thunder of Steppe horsemen.
93 |THE HALI GALLERY
Ahouse style advertisement section. 103 |REVIEW
Exhibitions; TheMFA, Boston focuses on its Persian textiles from the comprehensive collection built up thanks to Denman Waldo Ross and many other donors: Southeast Asian textiles at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore; a broad sweep of weavings of Kurdish origin at Minasian's in Evanston; East Turkestan rugs at Sandra Whitman. San Francisco; African wax prints at the Seattle Art Museum; African adornment in Rotterdam: Abstraction and America in Brussels and Valencia: Tunisian women's scarves at the Ethnographic Museum. Vienna; folk art from the stores at MOIFA, Santa Fe. 113 |AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
Pre-Columbian, Native American and European textiles and carpets feature in this seasonal retrospective. 119 IDESIGN FILE
Atlanta's Haynes Robinson talks about his approach to designing carpets; an exhibition of Project Mala’s rugs at the Nehru Centre in London. 125 |MODERN CARPET FOCUS
Aspecial advertorial section. 149 |NETWORK
Aclassified advertisement section. 157 | PROFILE
Meeting with collectors Christian and Dietlinde F.rber, Markus Voigt finds that conversation ranges from neighbourly good relations to Ottoman architecture, from suzanis to those very special Anatolian journeys. 158 |PARTING SHOTS
Travellers to Morocco for the regional ICOCenjoy the good life in avariety of settings. 160 | LAST PAGE
Peter Davies of Turkana Gallery in New York recalls the day that the view from his window changed for ever.
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