HALI
NTENT Issue 58 Volume 13, Number 4 August 1991
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69 EDITORIAL 71 LETTERS
Render responses to recent articles and reviews. 75 FRAGMENTS
How to clean your rap;with used sauerkraut:an I pper Rhine tapestry restored; a new Chinese gallery for the IK I. and a communication from Charles Grant Kilts. 81 FORUM
The dyes used to create the intense colours of ( hinese kesi panels of the Northern Song dynasty, how rags und bones found in an ancient chest drew medievalists to Flanders.
84 CONNOISSEUR SCHOICE
1rchitect Ignazio Iok chooses a p a n n a k l i 'vulture' kllim fragment whose counterpart in was one of the highlights of the McCoy Jones exhibition. 86 CARPETS IN PAINTINGS
The ‘Bellini’, ‘Keyhole’ or ‘Re-entrant’ Rugs John Mills Continuing his series o f in-depth articles on early carpet types depicted in Renaissance paintings. Dr John Mills looks at painted evidence of a group of distinctive 15th and 16th century Anatolian prayer rugs in which the inner mill rub border turns in on itself, re-entering the field to form a 'keyholeThe article offers a very fu ll survey of the paintings and also includes several rugs never previously published in colour. 104 THE FABRIC OF DEITIES
ANDKINGS IJdo Hirsch The shaggy symmetrically knotted long-piled garments worn by ancient Mesopotamian kings lead the author to propose that the origins of pileweaving may be traced back two thousand years before the Pazyryk. to the third millennium BC. 112 ZAREH’SLEGACY
George Farrow The author tracks down a posthumously finished Kum Kupi rug designed by Armenian masterweaver /.arch Penyamian.
115 EXHIBITIONS
A Columbus quincentenary exhibition oflnca textiles at The Textile Museum. II ashington DC; Coptic textiles in Geneva; 'Beyond the.lava Sea' in II ashington looks at the culture ojIndonesia‘s outer island societies.
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