CONTENTS ISSUE 167 SPRING 2011
102 Rugs and Kilims in the Ankara Vakıflar
24-25 Armaggan and
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40 The Ratenstrauch-Joest
Museum,
Cologne
FRONTLINES NEWS Letters and market news
IN MEMORIAM Edmund De Unger, Murad Michael Megalli and Georges D Bornet
WORKSHOP Istanbul’s luxury new brand Armaggan Nis¸antas¸ı
PROFILE Internationally renowned Japanese textile artist Jun Tomita
ICOC PROFILE Dealers Fair preview for the ICOC XII in Stockholm in June 2011
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FEATURES A FASCINATING PARADOX
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A South Transcaucasian Pile Carpet WALTER B DENNY The design of a Caucasian carpet from the Wolf Collection is traced to the region’s silk embroideries
WOVEN PAINTINGS
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Goya's Tapestries ANTONIO SAMA GARCIA The cartoons of Francisco de Goya for the Spanish Royal Tapestry Factory are widely regarded as great works of art but that high opinion is not always extended to the woven hangings based on his work
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
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The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne JONATHAN HOPE The Cologne museum has moved to an ultra-modern setting on the city’s Cacilienstrasse, with ample gallery display space allowing the ethnographic artefacts to be placed in contextualised settings
ASHTAPADA
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MICHAEL FRANSES The oldest securely dated complete silk pile carpet from the Muslim world, in Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, casts light on trade and cultural connections across Asia and the Mediterranean world
RUGS & KILIMS IN THE ANKARA VAKIFLAR
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BEN EVANS & SUZAN BAYRAKTAROG˘LU The Vakıflar’s Ankara headquarters house a little known collection of Turkish carpets and flatweaves. The first of a series of articles on the Vakıflar’s regional rug holdings by HALI’s Editor
ASPECTS OF NOBILITY
Golonial Andean Uncus and their Inca Models ELENA PHIPPS Colonial period Andean tunics represent a powerful symbolic legacy of the prior Inca noble tradition
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A THREAD OF HISTORY
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ROSEMARY CRILL Fine examples of India’s craft tradition, seven kantha embroideries from Bengal have been donated to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum by collector Karun Thakar
CONTEXT EXHIBITIONS ‘A Story of Islamic Embroidery in Nomadic and Urban Traditions’ at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace Hotel; Robert and Lois Baylis’ Tibetan rugs at the Rubin Museum, New York; ‘Splendour of Colour, Shimmer of Silk’ at Jerusalem’s L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art; the Fukuoka Art Museum plays host to tsutsugakitextiles; Zadah’s ‘Eastern Gems’ hit London; BRAFA and more in Brussels in January 2011; Domotex 2011; San Francisco’s Tribal and Textile Art Fair 127 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide 150 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in Europe and the USA 155 BOOKS Max Klimburg and Christian Erber reflect on the TM’s ColorsoftheOasis.Central AsianIkats, a record of the Murad Megalli Collection; Lucien de Guise, head curator of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia assesses the V&A’s ImperialChineseRobesFromTheForbiddenCity; Stefano Ionescu’s HandbookofFakesbyTuducreviewed by John Mills 166 MARKET REPORT New York antique rug dealer Jason Nazmiyal tackles the web 173 PARTING SHOTS From Hanover, to Brussels and San Francisco 182 FIRST VIEW The ‘Mantle of Atahualpa’– an early 16th century Inca axsu 184
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