Hali

Spring 2007

Features:

• LETTERS Josephine Powell remembered
• NEWS New York Asia Week; Oceanic and Indonesian art sale at Kunsthandel Kleisch, Cologne
• ENEWSA summary of the best on www.hali.com and the rest of the web
• FRAGMENTS Tapestry in Maastrict; Freud’s carpets; World Handmade Carpet Organisation
• PROFILEThe rich life of Ottoman art doyenne Nurhan Atasoy
• FROM THE ARCHIVE The irst public kilim exhibition of 1957 and organiser Firuzan Belik
• FORUM Hadi Maktabi demonstrates the worth of Oxford’s Beattie Archive
• THE BRONZE WEAVER SUSAN SCOLLAY An important 6th century Indonesian sculpture purchased by the National Gallery of Australia is revealed and discussed with the Gallery’s Asian Art Curator Robyn Maxwell
• PLAITED, COILED, TWINED AND LOOPED New Guinea Fibre Masterworks JILL D’ALESSANDRO & CHRISTINA HELLMICH A selection of the 3,000 objects that make up the Jolika Collection of New Guinea art at the de Young Museum in San Francisco illustrates not only the astonishing techniques and materials used to generate these sacred objects but also the collecting nous of Marcia and John Friede
• THE MYSTERY UNRAVELLED Part Two: Knotted-Pile Saddlebags ANN NICHOLAS & RICHARD BLUMENTHAL Extending their discussion of South Persian nomadic bags in HALI 150, the authors examine the vexed question of the use of pile-woven saddlebags through a series of revealing photographs
• BESHIR PRAYER RUGS RALPH KAFFEL With diverse design inluences from Persia and Turkey to China, Beshir prayer rugs are unlike all other Turkmen knotted-pile weavings: a systematic classiication and discussion
• COTTON CONNECTIONS DANIEL SHAFFER A perspective on the little-known Katoen Natie Collection, a treasure trove of ancient textiles from the Near East and Central Asia in Antwerp, and the serious application of science
• STRONG FOUNDATIONS ANTHONY HAZLEDINE The welcome roll-out of regional Vakılar Museums in Turkey begins with the relaunch of the Istanbul Carpet and Kilim collections for ICOC, then moves to Vakılar HQ in Ankara and out into the provinces over the next year
• ICOC PREVIEW A second look at the activities in Istanbul this April: Private collections; Dealers’ fair; Dealers’ individual shows; An insiders’ guide
• EXHIBITIONS Toraja cloths in Fukuoka City; ‘Mantles of Merit’ and tent bands at the TM; Tropenmuseum exhibits beautiful beads; Indian and Pakistan embroideries in Toronto
• FAIRS The Caskey Lees fairs inSan Francisco; Textile art in Bergamo 150
• AUCTIONS Jack Lenor Larsen’s private collection; Vojtech Blau’s rugs at Sotheby’s NY
• AUCTIONPRICEGUIDE New York & Philadelphia December sales
• CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences
• PARTING SHOTS Ruggie events in Bergamo, Istanbul, Berlin and San Francisco
• FIRST VIEW An unusual 17th century central Anatolian rug fragment from the TIEM, Istanbul 192
• BOOKSRiggisberger Berichte 9 & 13; Souvenir of Istanbul; The Keiko Kusakabe Collection. Textiles from Sulawesi in Indonesia; Basketry.A World Guide to Traditional Techniques