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Penny O akley reviews O tto m an Embroidery by Roderick Taylor; Dominique Garden's catalogue o f medieval te x tile s . F ils Renoues reviewed by Jen ny Balfou r-P au l; Chris Farr and O liv er Moore on K ilim : The Complete Guide, by A la s ta ir Hull & Jo s e Luczyc-W vhowska; plus reviews of A fr ican Majesty: The Textile Art o f the A san te a n d Ewe and N om ad: A Year in the Life o f a Q a sh qa ’i Tribesm an in Iran.

103 T IT L E S R E C E IV E D A sele c tio n of recen tly published books and catalogues.

104 A P P E N D IX Notes, acknow ledgm ents, bibliography.

105 T H E H A L I GALLERY A d is tin ctiv e advertisem ent sectio n in house style.

M A R K E T P L A C E

121 NEWS

Looking, leap ing, and staying together: far-sighted strategem s will keep London’s oriental carpet importers strong and united.

123 A U C T IO N P R IC E G U ID E Chinese carpets and top lots from the D ild arian sa le at Sotheby’s in New York, otherw ise generally la ck lu s tre results from Boston and London’s O cto ber Asian W eek.

132 A U C T IO N R E PO R TS A sian W eek at Christie’s , London: top p rices for the Islam ic bronze lion with the Walt D isn ey sm ile and a d rastically m iscatalogued early S in o -T ib e tan kesi panel. P lus contrasting fortunes at Nagel and R ippon Bosw ell's November sales.

134 A U C T IO N P R E V IE W S T he Thompson Collection takes cen tre stage at Sotheby’s in New Y o rk , while at Christie’s E a s t . J im F fr en ch ’s first sa le .

136 EAIRS

Sartiran a settles down; Textura at Munich; ‘T re sors’, the first In ternational Art l a ir in Singapore; the second Grand Persian

Conference and Exhibition in Tehran.

139 G A LLER IE S In Munich, vintage C au casians from Eberhart Herrmann; Uzbek needlework at R ich a rd Purdon in Burford; also - B rian M acD onald in the heart o f England; Davide Halevim , Maurizio

B a ttilo ss i and Aberto Boralevi in Italy ; P e te r W iilb org in Sweden; J im K lin gner and Zadah & Zada in Belgium ; Peter Pap in California; G a le r ie s Merx and B onakdar in Germany; H erbert B ie le r in V ienna, Nomadic Rug Traders in Sydney.

145 N E TW O R K A c la ssified advertisem ent section .

161 CALENDAR A l is tin g o f auctions, exh ib itio n s and fa irs worldwide.

166 P A R T IN G SHOTS H A L l 's roving eye takes in events in S ingapore. Hong Kong,

Ja p an , T ib e t , San F r an c is co , Santa F e , W ashington DC,

F lo ren c e , Sartirana, Munich, Oxford and London.

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HALI ETYMON Ila l i , the Turkish word fo r ca rp e t o r ru g , has survived unchanged fo r o v e r 1 , 0 0 0 y e a rs . Its ancient Turkish, classical P e rsian and O ttom an fo rm s a r e phonetically iden tical to m od e rn Turkish. In m od e rn F a r s i , classical P e rsian and O ttom an Turkish sc r ip t , hah is rep re sen ted by the sam e Arabic le t te r s .

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