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9 | EDITORIAL
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to Krishna Riboud. pioneer and indefatigable champion o f the textile traditions o f the Indian Subcontinent. Southeast Asia and the Far East.
15 | LETTERS
More on those RKO rugs; right o f reply exercised by TSA and ACOR.
17 |NEWS
Changes in legislation open up the French auction market; a new rug gallery in Jaffa; news from Milan; competition results; remembering Jan Timmerman.
19 | POSTCARD
As a cultural tourist in Cambodia Diana Collins finds a nation looking to the future while still bearing many scars from the past.
21 | FRAGMENTS
Resplendently clean and fresh from the bath, the LA Ardabil is unveiled at a byinvitation Hampton Court levee; pearls for purity; a little detective work on an inscribed kilim.
41|PARIS SPECIAL REPORT
Jill Tilden and Rosario Canade discover the delights o f the Parisian carpet, textile and Islamic art scene, renewing many friendships on the way.
49 |PREVI EW
Mark Whiting Turkmens at Richard Purdon; Kuba textiles at Herman Vermeulen; anniversary celebrations at Krausse in Munich and Bausback o f Mannheim; Asian Art in London; the autumn auction season on both sides o f the Atlantic.
6i |CALENDAR
A world w ide listing o f auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences.
73 | BOOKS
Marcel Korolnik reviews Kurt Rainer’s Tasnacht; Jennifer Wearden on Roya Tagiyeva's AzerbaijanCarpet; Rosemary Crill reviews CostumesandTextilesofRoyal India by R itu Kumar.
75 | TITLES RECEIVED
A selection o f recently published books and catalogues.
77 | E-VIEW
Emmett Eiland finds that a DOBAG site offers food for thought; Steve Price on textile-art.com.
79 |WORKSHOP
A systematic look at 'Eagle gol' group weavings based on Annette Rautenstengel’s structural study.
89 | FORUM
Thomas Murray examines the unexpected appearance o f textile design elements from the Near Eastern Islam ic world in trade cloths woven in India and Southeast Asia.
92 | TRU E STITCH
Early Samplers and the Use of Double Running Stitch Jennifer Wearden The modesty and fam iliarity o f samplers sometimes obscure their fascination as documents of both technical and social interest. Here the author, a curator in the V&A costume and textile department, traces the use over five centuries o f a basic element in many samplers, the double running stitch that gives a 'true’ and continuous line on both sides o f the embroidery.
98 | BALKANS AND BACK
Monastir Prayer Rugs Sonny Berntsson The predominantly pale-ground, loosely woven prayer rugs known as Monastir were woven in two geographical areas, one in Europe, the other in Asia, reflecting the displacement o f a weaving community.
104 |CROSSING THE
HARSHLANDS AJourneyto the Karakorum Pass Paul Harris Following in the footsteps o f merchants, pilgrims and travellers o f earlier centuries, photojournalist
Paul Harris tests him self against extreme weather and terrain to fo llow part o f the bleakly grandiose transFlimalayan trade routes to the lim its o f the kingdom o f Ladakh.
111 | ISLAMIC ART
October Islam ic week auction previews; James Allan on Persian steel; Topkapi treasures; the life and times o f Jean Soustiel: summer in London Sam Fogg and Brendan Lynch: a joint professorship for Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.
117 |THE HALI GALLERY
A house style advertisement section.
129 |REVIEW
The third HALI Fair brings increased crowds to Olympia; a mysterious Persian silk and wool pictorial kilim ; the New York Tribal Antiques Show; Chavin textiles at the TM; Caucasian rugs in Singapore from the collection o f Ben Fernandes; Anatolian kilims at Klosterkirche in Bavaria; a rare Nepalese embroidery sold at Christie's.
147 |AUCTION'PRICE GUIDE
More highlights from the spring auctions including important European pile carpets; Turkmens and other collector rugs in Germany.
155 |DESIGN FILE
The Atlanta Rugmart; goat-hair goes kozyak in Bulgaria: Bieber rugs; Renaissance Savonneries; new artistdesigned silk rugs; A tiyeh’s centenary crowned by a Hajji Jalili Tabriz rug.
165 |NETWORK
A classified advertisement section.
173 |PROFILE
Murray Eiland Jr interviewed by Thomas Cole.
174 IPARTI NG SHOTS
Action and reaction at the HALI Fair.
176 |LAST PAGE
John Carswell scrutinises differing approaches to East-West relations.
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