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FRONTLINES
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NEWS
Asian Art in London 2009; a Lotto carpet at Rippon Boswell’s recent sale; new galleries open at the Ashmolean Museum and the V&A ; Altai’s charity auction |
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POSTCARD
A view of Central Asia – Hans König reports from Samarkand and Bukhara |
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PROFILE
A look at the Khalili Collection, currently in exhibition around the world |
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FORUM
Getting to grips with the rugs of Francis Bacon |
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BENCHMARKS
Stephen Szczepanek encourages us to appreciate the beauty of a
Japanese Sakiori coat; Leng Tan discusses a Sumba hinggi |
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MASTERPIECE
Nasca man’s sleeveless tunic from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by Christine Giuntini |
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FEATURES
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BOUCHEROUITE
Axel Steinmann & Gebhart blazek
The emergence of Moroccan rag rugs, textiles formed from found materials, is a consequence of the social, economic and cultural upheavals occurring in the rural areas of the country |
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THE CORONATION CARPET
Linda Komaroff
Two important and seldom seen Classical Persian weavings, the Ardabil and ‘Coronation’ carpets, are on show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until mid-January 2010 |
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ADVENTURES ON THE ALTIPLANO
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Katie Loux
San Francisco textile art dealer Steve Berger is one of a small group of individuals who have helped to bring Aymara textile art to the international market in the 1970s and 80s. Contributing Editor Kate Loux discusses the discovery of the textiles with the dealer |
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AMISH WITH ATTITUDE
Jill D’Alessandro
At San Francisco’s de Young Museum until 6 June 2010, ‘Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown’ presents 48 quilts from the 1880s to the 1940s, and celebrates the artistry and diversity of this Amish tradition |
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BAHLULI?
A group of symmetrically-knotted ‘Baluch’ rugs
Dewitt Mallary
Are the small subset of ‘Baluch’ weavings with symmetric knot the work of the Bahluli people? |
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THEIR OWN FANTASTIC UNIVERSE
Ceremonial cache-sexes of the Bana Guili Kirdi
Vanessa Drake Moraga
Dances, ceremonies and rites of passage are occasions when these beaded pubic aprons are worn by women and girls from the villages of northern Cameroon and surrounding regions |
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CONTEXT
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EXHIBITIONS
‘Woven Beauty’ at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel; Book of Omens – ‘Falnama’ at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; Le Salon du Collectionneur at the Grand Palais; Global India at Francesca Galloway, London; Velvets at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan; the Textile Museum of Prato shows off medieval and Renaissance silks; rugs from Milan’s Alberto Levi; tentbands at the Turkmentreffen; Chinese minority textiles at Dumortier, Antwerp;reports from ARTS at the Capri Motel in San Francisco |
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CALENDAR
Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences |
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AUCTION REPORT
A Persian silk rug steals the London Islamic Week show and a
report on the Copper King’s Esfahan collection which sold at Christie’s New York |
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AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
Recent sales in Europe and the US |
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BOOKS
European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago reviewed; Titles Received |
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MARKETPLACE
An interview with Milan’s Robin Pavizyar and Kat Maeckle |
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PARTING SHOTS
The best shots from San Francisco, Berlin and beyond |
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FIRST VIEW
A newly discovered Iznik mosque lamp with Ottoman Turkish inscription |
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