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Issue 64 Volume 14, Number 4 August 1992

Publisher & Editor

Alan Marcuson Associate Publisher Sebastian Ghandchi

Deputy Editor Daniel Shaffer Senior Editors Maria Schlatter. Jill Tilden

Assistant Editor

Jennifer Gill Editorial Co-ordinator

Judy Hirsh Chief Contributing Editors

Ian Bennett. Robert Pinner

Contributing Editors Alberto Boralevi, Steven Cohen Rosemary Crill, Michael Franses Donald King, DeWitt Mallary

John Mills, Thomas Murray James W.Reid, Philippa Scott Parviz Tanavoli, John Wertime

P icture L ib rarian

John Stroud

Art Director

Liz Dixon Art Editor Amanda Bakhtiar

Advertisement D irector

Andrew I lurlock Senior Advertisement Executive

Julie Wicks Advertisement P roduction

Ben Loveless Advertisement Secretary

Lara Zunino

Subscriptions & Administration

Barbara Schneider Publisher’s Assistant

Wendy Kasabian D istribution Manager

Marc Thomas Systems Manager Veronica Purdey

Receptionist Zobida Khan

The German language supplement is published as an integral part of I IALI.

Editor Maria Schlatter

T ranslators Dorrit Dunn. Susaime Mattern

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EDITORIAL Jon Thompson's reflections upon the recent major carpet event in Tehran. LETTERS Richard Hall on the kilim show in Munich: Steven Price on the Lenkoran medallion; Emily Sandford on restoration at ACOR. FRAGMENTS Five metres o f Paracas turban acquired by the De Young, whose Chief Curator Cathy Cootner celebrates a decade at the museum; conservation activities in and around London; a new textile museum for Italy; a / 7th century weaving poem. 96 FORUM

II hen is the Beghian Safavid Medallion and Cartouche carpet in Vienna not the Topkapi Harem carpet? Christine klose clarifies. An Austrian reader, Hans Seethaler, contributes three unrecorded examples o f Annunciation paintings depicting early carpets. 102 CONNOISSEUR S CHOICE

Carry Muse sent HALI the picture oj his chosen piece —an early Anatolian rug in the Turk ve Islam Eser/eri Museum - with the comment “The stuff that dreams are made o f " 104 CINTAMANI

Gerard Paquin Buddhist jewel or animal skinY Controversy surrounds the meaning and origin o f one o f the most familiar designs in Turkish carpets, textiles and decorative arts - the dots and wavy lines known as (jiritairiani. Gerard Paquin looks at the historical and visual evidence for its development in Centr al Asia, the Fav East and Anatolia. 120 TO WEAVE FOR THE SUN

Rebecca Stone-M iller The Boston Museum o f Fine Arts has one o f the most comprehensive and spectaculav collections o f pre-Columbian textiles in the world. The Columbus quincentennial has prompted a catalogue raisonne and selective exhibition. 128 EXHIBITIONS

The oriental rugs o f Parsons Todd, one o f the founders o f the Hajji Baba Club, exhibited at Macculloch Hall in Morristown, New Jersey; Venetian and Ottoman elements contribute to the vocabulary o f Greek Island embroideries, showing at the Art Institute o f Chicago; the 25th anniversary exhibition of the lavishly endowed conservation centre at the Abegg-Stiftung; a loan exhibition o f classic Saltillo serapes tours the US.

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