ISSUE 109 MARCH/APRIL 2000
CONTENTS
9 | EDITORIAL
Introducing the new look IIALI. 11 | LETTERS
Boxers. Bijars. Baluches andmore. 13 | POSTCARD
RoddyTaylor discovers the magnificence of BukharaandSamarkand. 15 | NEWS
Shock resignations at Sotheby’s; newgalleryopenings; OCMgoes down; Ian Bennett’sreturn. 33 ! PREVI EW
Samplers at Boston; Ottoman domestic embroideryat theWashington Textile Museum; cocabags; royal tapestries; sofrehs; Central Asian textiles. ACOR5 exhibitions andDealers' Row: plenty on offer for all those lucky enough to beheadingfor SanFrancisco. Also upcomingfairs in Maastricht andNYand London'sApril AsianWeekauctions. 45 j CALENDAR
Aworld wide listings of auctions, exhibitions, fairs andconferences. 65 BOOKS
Julia Bailey on oneof the most lavish rugbookseverproduced, TurkishCarpets: MasterpiecesfromtheTIEM, byWalter B. DennyandNazanOlqer. photographed and published byAhmet Ertug. 71 TITLES RECEIVED
Aselection of recently published books andcatalogues. 72 E-VIEW
Love it or loathe it you can’t escape it. The internet is shaping tomorrow’s business today. 74 WORKSHOP
Dr Harald Bohmeron the secrets of madder, source of probably the most familiar andwidely useddye in oriental carpets. 77 FRAGMENTS
Field chairs for the officer sahib: an Iraqi map rug; franking the Pazyryk.
91 FORUM
JohnWertime challenges the rug world to get to grips with the hypothesis of aTabriz origin for the dragon andblossom carpets. 94 |YAO LAN TAN
SHAMANS’ ROBES Wimolrat Jenjarassakul. Vichai Chinalai & LeeJ.Chinalai Theceremonial robes of the shaman contain a living andaccessible record of traditional Daoist symbolism, just one of theways inwhich the Yao hilltribes of northern Laossafeguard and preserve their history andculture. 100 |ORIENTAL RUGS IN
OCCIDENTAL Murray L. Eiland Jr.: photographs byDennis Anderson ForCalifornian collector JimDixon the initial encounter with rugs meant love at first sight. This passion has not waned, andwith time led to the unusual - possibly unique - decision to design ahousespecifically to display his rugs. 108 |THE WIEDERSPERG
COLLECTION Diane Mott TheFAMSFrugcollection continues to growapace. WolfgangandGisela Wiedersperg's recent donation of the fruits of four decadesof Turkmen collecting, someof which arecurrently on display, hasplaced the museum in the forefront of Western holdings. 112 IRANK & FILE
Colour Block Patterning on Paracas Necropolis Textiles Anne Paul Two thousandyearsagoPeruvian weavers in the ParacasPeninsula developedasubtle andcomplex technique of combining and interchanging pattern units. The organisation of colour units in their characteristic checkerboard designs reveals afascinating systemof logic. 120 APPENDIX
Acknowledgments, notes, bibliographies, supplementary images.
125 ISLAMIC ART
Stefano Carboni offers acurator's eye view of the collection of Islamic art at the MMA, NewYork; previewof the spring Islamic sales, newsandreviews. 131 GALLERY
Anadvertisement section in housestyle. 145 |REVI EW
Exhibitions of ethnographic textiles in Basel; aTurkmen event in Evanston; Sasanian textiles from Egypt in Geneva; Post-Byzantineart in Trieste; Kurdish rugs inWashington: Caucasianweavings in Munich; Vaishnavite art in Virginia; Gulbenkian highlights at the MMA. Conference roundup includes tie & dye textiles in Chile. German rug society meetings, the TMrug convention anddyes in Brussels, 153 |AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
Focuseson the seasonwinter rugand textile salesat Nagel, RB. SNYandCNY. 160 | BAY AREA FOCUS
Aroundup, with ACORinmind, of the amazingtalent waiting to provide rug tourists to the BayAreawith the best in carpets, textiles and tribal art. 171 DESIGN FILE
Newsandviewsof the modern carpet sector, with in-depth reports on the January fairs in I lanover andAtlanta. 181 NETWORK
Aclassifiedadvertisement section. 189 PROFILE
Intrepid traveller andethnographer Josephine Powell talks to Anthony Hazledine in Istanbul. 190 PARTI NG SHOTS
TheLAArdabil takesabath; Domotex andAtlanta fairs: the NYHajji Babas celebrate; plus stop-overs in Chicago. LA, Vancouver. SydneyandRajasthan. 192 LAST PAGE
Islamic art historian, linguist and novelist Robert Irwin uncovers the literary origins of the flying carpet.
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