Highlights from HALI 218:

Profile
‘CulturalxCollabs. Weaving The Future’ sees antique and contemporary rug making unite

Anatomy of an object
A Kashmir shawl that once belonged to Queen Victoria perfectly unites the Victorian love of pattern and colour with the Kashmir master weavers’ eye for detail

Common thread
A selection of books containing, or concerning, textiles, their use, circulation and creation

Features
Cloth used in the bindings of Armenian and Ethiopian manuscripts from the 14th–20th centuries • Eight specialists discuss a ‘book’ that they consider to be exceptional • A sample book from 1787 contains precious barkcloth variations recording vanished cultures • On the fascinating, frustrating and fabulous 1905 book, T. H. Hendley’s Asian Carpets •  An 18th-century volume of cloth samples tells of rivalry, espionage and fierce ambition • A foretaste of an important new exhibition opening at the University of Alberta 

Marketplace
Stephanie Douglas on tapestries, carpets and textiles from the Galerie Chevalier collection at Giquello, Paris • Daniel Shaffer on Modernist carpets and rugs designed by Ivan da Silva Bruhns for the Maharaja of Indore at Christie’s, Paris • Auction price guide

Exhibitions
‘Burma to Myanmar’, British Museum, London • ‘Raphael: Gold and Silk’, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna • ‘The Resistance of Pen and Paper’, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Last page
A glorious installation in Brescia of prayer rugs from the Zaleski collection

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