January/February 1996 97 BOOKS

Walter Denny assesses a significant new contribution to the mg literature, Richard Wright & John Wertiine's Caucasian Carpets and Covers; Peter Collingwood on an update of the classic Biihler technique-based terminology, Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger’s Textiles: A Classification of Techniques; Julia Bailey on Blair and Bloom’s The Art and Architecture of Islam, George Michell on a multi-author study ol The Mosque.

103 TITLES RECEIVED A selection of recently published books and catalogues.

104 APPENDIX Notes, acknowledgments and supplementary information.

105 THE HALI GALLERY A distinctive advertisement section in house style.

MARKETPLACE

131 NEWS

The entire Bernheimer Collection of carpets and textiles is to be sold by Christie’s in London.

133 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Five-figure sums for well-known Caucasian collector carpets in London, four figures only for most other things.

140 AUCTION REPORTS A welcome influx of smart collector rugs ups the ante at Sotheby’s during London’s October Asian Week; much excitement is occasioned by two star lots - a Safavid panel at Phillips and the largest known Mughal portrait at Sotheby’s.

142 FAIRS

TEFAF tests the waters in Basel; how they shopped till they dropped at the New York Armory antiques (air.

146 GALLERIES Eclectic winter carpet exhibitions in Paris at Sam Jafarian and at Galerie Chevalier; a round-up of Italian exhibitions includes carpets from the Far East at Eskenazi in Milan and Galleria Textilia, Rome; from Anatolia and Central Asia at Ottoman Art in Perugia; and from Persia at Marzia Berto, Vicenza; ancient sculptural art from India and the Near East at Rossi & Rossi London, and Blondeel, Antwerp; historic needlework in Chicago;

a profusion of pregnant botehs in San Francisco; Daghestan kilims in New York, and Persian garden carpets in London.

150 TEHRAN REPORT Now in its fourth year, the International Conference on Persian Carpets in Tehran again exposed the challenge confronting the

Iranian carpet industry, while the Grand Exhibition brought little comfort to advocates of traditional values.

153 NETWORK Aclassified advertisement section.

169 CALENDAR A listing of auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide.

174 PARTING SHOTS Fairs in Istanbul and Basel; London’s Asian Week; an OCC

opening celebration; ruggies meet in Washington DC

and Southern California.

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HALI ETYMON Halt, the modern Turkish word for carpet o r rug, was written kali in O ttom an 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 I rdu and from O ttom an Turkish into Armenian and o ther Caucasian tongues and into the languages o f tin* Balkans. Its ultimate origin is uncertain; it could In* Turkish hut might he Sogdian.

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