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August/September 1994 115 BOOKS Jane Merritt reviews Philippa Scott’s The Book of S ilk; Philippa Scott in turn reviews 5000 Years o f Textiles, edited by
Jennifer Harris; Jennifer Scarce discusses Henry Glassie’s Traditional Turkish Art Today: Donald King on Antoine de Moor's Coptic Textiles from Flemish Private Collections: and
Kathrin Colburn on Maya Textiles o f Guatemala .
120 APPENDIX Notes, acknowledgments, technical analyses and bibliographies.
121 THE HALI GALLERY A distinctive advertisement section in house style.
MARKETPLACE
137 NEWS
We investigate the Savonnerie phenomenon as a Louis XV example sets a world record for any carpet at auction; plus an updated knotted pile carpet all time top-ten; new rug auctions scheduled for Milan; moves and openings.
139 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Rippon Boswell’s sale in May 1994 leads an end ol season roundup of the spring sales in Stuttgart, London, New York,
Boston and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
145 AUCTION REPORTS Jacqueline Simcox discusses an outsize Yongle period embroidered silk thanka, made as an imperial gift to a Himalayan spiritual leader, which set a new world record price for a Chinese textile at auction.
146 FAIRS
Business for many art and antiques traders may still be in the doldrums, but things were buzzing 1 his year at London's two
June fairs, held at Grosvenor House and Olympia.
148 GALLERIES Paul Hughes and Huize Dumortier show pre-Columbian textiles to Antwerp; Dario Valcarenghi celebrates the publication of his kilim collection with an exhibition at Sartirana; Turkomans at the Arditti Gallery in Christchurch, Dorset; a summer exhibition at Ottoman Art in Perugia, and
Johnny Eskenazi's recently opened oriental sculpture and textile gallery in London’s Old Bond Street.
151 MARKETPLACE FEATURE In the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar a young Frenchman from Paris has set up a weaving workshop with a difference.
153 NETWORK A classified advertisement section.
171 CALENDAR A listing of auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide.
175 PARTING SHOTS Summer events include an international Tibetan seminar, fairs and auctions in London, a rug and textile society jamboree in Graz, and an exhibition in Keszthely, Hungarian Transylvania.
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