September 1996
1 0 4 I C O C E X H I B I T I O N S
Symmetry in oriental carpets examined in an exhibition to be held at The Textile Museum, Washington DC; fine classical carpets on view in a new installation at the Brooklyn Museum;
New York Hajji Baba members will exhibit rugs from their collections as they host ICOC visitors; also, suzanis in
Washington, salt-bags in Philadelphia.
I l l B O O K S
A handbook of the R ijksm useum’s Indian chintzes, Sitsen uit
India reviewed by Steven Cohen; Islam ic Textiles, Patricia
Baker’s “bold and courageous overview” discussed by Jacqueline Herald, and Marco Polo - ju st an armchair traveller? a review of Frances Wood’s controversial study.
1 1 5 A P P E N D I X
Notes, acknowledgments and structural analyses.
1 1 7 T H E H A L I G A L L E R Y A distinctive advertisement section in house style.
M A R K E T P L A C E
1 3 7 N E W S
All the tun of the fair from Paris to New York via Basel; Christie’s offer customers a lot-search service; new faces at
Spinks; Thames carpets celebrates.
1 3 9 A U C T I O N R E P O R T S
Herbert Exner reviews the May auctions at Rippon Boswell and
Nagel; new habits for the bishop who has everything at the
Bernheimer ecclesiastical textile sale.
1 4 2 A U C T I O N P R I C E G U I D E Plenty of respectable collectables at Rippon Boswell and Nagel; plus Andean material in New York, and selected tapestries at Sotheby’s London.
1 4 8 A U C T I O N P R E V I E W S Coming up: a trove of c lassical period carpets and more Bernheim er collection textiles at Christie’s London; a Turkish sale at Sotheby's, London.
1 4 9 F A I R S
It wasn't the first and probably won’t be the last time that a strong carpet fair in Istanbul was frustrated by inept organisation.
1 5 0 G A L L E R I E S
Indonesian and other ethnic textiles in a mixed media exhibition at Shirley Day, London; The Textile Gallery exhibits Caucasian embroideries and rugs in W iesbaden; rugs at Nemati in New York; Far Eastern textiles at Casa di Nepi in Rome; Esther Fitzgerald explores the possibilities of squareness; Arno Henseler shows Madagascan warp ikat dyeing on raffia and other intricate African textiles in Munich.
1 6 7 N E T W O R K A classified advertisement section.
1 7 7 C A L E N D A R
A listing of auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide.
1 8 3 P A R T I N G S H O T S
A carpet fair in Istanbul; a Turkmen conference in Ashgabat,
and a celebratory opening in Lispida.
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HALI ETYMON Halt, the modern Turkish word for carpet or rug, was written k a l i in Ottoman script until late in the 19th century, as it was in classical Persian and still is in modern Persian. It was borrowed from Persian into Urdu and from Ottoman Turkish into Armenian and other Caucasian tongues and into the languages of the Balkans. Its ultimate origin is uncertain; it could he Turkish but might be Sogdian.
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