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'Le Trame del Dragone' is an exhibition running at MITA Cultural Centre until 6 April 2026 in Brescia, Italy. This show ...
02/01/2026

'Le Trame del Dragone' is an exhibition running at MITA Cultural Centre until 6 April 2026 in Brescia, Italy.

This show features a selection of Chinese carpets from the Ming and Qing dynasties from the Zaleski Collection, alongside works created in the oasis cities of present-day Xinjiang, such as Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan—ancient crossroads of the Silk Roads.

The exhibition also includes Tang and Ming terracotta, antique furnishings, Taoist phrases and fragrances inspired by traditional Chinese flowers, offering an immersive experience that combines fabrics, objects and sensory suggestions.

💫Season's greetings from HALI magazine!💫We would like to wish you a very happy holidays! The HALI office will be closed ...
24/12/2025

💫Season's greetings from HALI magazine!💫

We would like to wish you a very happy holidays! The HALI office will be closed from Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen on Monday 5 January 2026.

Image: Velvet with ladies in a garden, Gujarat, India, early 17th century. Silk and metal threads. Abegg-Stiftung, 437

A Liao gauze fragment from north China featured in HALI 225 in article by Eiren Shea, which adds to the so-far scant sch...
22/12/2025

A Liao gauze fragment from north China featured in HALI 225 in article by Eiren Shea, which adds to the so-far scant scholarship of such textiles.

This fragment, showing a lion turning its head back to look over its shoulder while it bounds forward, is characteristic of Central Asian animal-style art. 'The lion bares its teeth, showing its long tongue, and its mane is clustered in cloud-like curls reminiscent of Persian-style lions. The tight curls of the mane and the articulation of the eye and the muzzle also connect to Chinese lions.'

Read the full article through a digital subscription to HALI magazine.

The National Museum of Korea in Seoul hosts ‘Islamic Art: A Journey of Splendor’ until 11 October 2026. Introducing Kore...
19/12/2025

The National Museum of Korea in Seoul hosts ‘Islamic Art: A Journey of Splendor’ until 11 October 2026. Introducing Korean audiences to the richness and diversity of Islamic art, the show includes the famed Clark ‘throne’ carpet—one of the most beautiful of all the great Safavid carpets—alongside more than 80 other masterworks drawn from the Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha.

This week, HALI visited ahead of the new issue, to view several carpets up close. Discover more about these pieces in H...
17/12/2025

This week, HALI visited ahead of the new issue, to view several carpets up close. Discover more about these pieces in HALI 226, coming in January 2026.💫

Refined chand-dar moon shawls and dorukha reversible shawls are at the heart of a remarkable selection from the India-ba...
16/12/2025

Refined chand-dar moon shawls and dorukha reversible shawls are at the heart of a remarkable selection from the India-based TAPI collection.

‘Splendour of Dorukha and Chand-dar: Kashmir’s Reversible & Moon Shawls from the TAPI Collection’ opened on 14 December at the Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum in Ahmedabad.

📚A selection of our books can be found at London Holiday Pop-up!📚Discover our newest releases, including Central Asian ...
12/12/2025

📚A selection of our books can be found at London Holiday Pop-up!📚

Discover our newest releases, including Central Asian Textiles: The Neville Kingston Collection, Abr: Ikat Robes from Central Asia, and Chintz: The Karun Thakar Collection on Sloane Street until 22 December 💫

This small 'double niche' Ushak carpet from Turkey, dated to the late 16th century, is currently on show in the Saint Lo...
10/12/2025

This small 'double niche' Ushak carpet from Turkey, dated to the late 16th century, is currently on show in the Saint Louis Art Museum's exhibition 'Patterns of Luxury: Islamic Textiles, 11th–17th Centuries'. Philip K. Hu, the museum's curator of Asian Art, includes this piece in his article in HALI 225, where he introduces select highlights from the show.

Read the full article via a digital subscription to HALI.

Cypria Auctions will hold its 'Winter 2025 Sale' in Nicosia on 10 December at 7pm EET (5pm GMT), featuring a distinguish...
08/12/2025

Cypria Auctions will hold its 'Winter 2025 Sale' in Nicosia on 10 December at 7pm EET (5pm GMT), featuring a distinguished group of textiles that trace the intertwined histories of Ottoman luxury weaving and Greek domestic embroidery in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A highlight of the auction is a rare, late-16th-century Ottoman silk brocade kemha panel (shown here). Woven with coloured silks and silver thread on a satin ground, the textile displays the sophisticated ogival medallion scheme and refined metallic highlights that characterise courtly production at the height of Ottoman textile design.

An embroidered panel from Epirus from the late 18th/early 19th century, composed of borders from a bedsheet worked in silk on linen, is also a standout piece, alongside an 18th-century embroidered cushion cover from Skyros, bearing the celebrated 'great cockerel' motif—a symbol of fertility and, in local lore, of resilience under Ottoman rule.

Discover the full catalogue on the Cypria website.

Earlier this week, HALI attended a preview of ‘What’s Brewing: Stories Woven Between India and France’ at the in Paris,...
05/12/2025

Earlier this week, HALI attended a preview of ‘What’s Brewing: Stories Woven Between India and France’ at the in Paris, where the curators and shared insights into the exhibition.

Running until 4 January, this show explores the long standing connections between India and France through textiles, revealing how these cultures have influenced and inspired one another for centuries.

This Bolour Willow Trees, Horses and River Carpet from Central India, dated circa 1725–75, featured in the Hong Kong Pal...
03/12/2025

This Bolour Willow Trees, Horses and River Carpet from Central India, dated circa 1725–75, featured in the Hong Kong Palace Museum's recent exhibition 'Wonders of Imperial Carpets', held from 18 June–6 October 2025.

Very finely woven in silk, it features a graceful weeping willow surrounded by four smaller, vibrantly coloured trees, each filled with exotic birds—including mythical 'hoopoes', celebrated in Attar’s poem Conference of the Birds. A fish-filled river flows across the lower part of the composition, and two horses and two dogs are depicted, waiting for their owners who have escaped the scene.

'The field design is related in style to 18th-century Deccanese paintings, but is otherwise unknown in the art of the carpet. Remarkably few silk carpets have survived from India, and only a small number are complete and not fragmented.'

Read the full article through a digital subscription to HALI.

in Missouri will hold its 'Antique Caucasian Rugs & Modern Art Session 1' sale on 7 December at 1pm CST (7pm GMT / 8pm ...
03/12/2025

in Missouri will hold its 'Antique Caucasian Rugs & Modern Art Session 1' sale on 7 December at 1pm CST (7pm GMT / 8pm CET), featuring the estate collection of John Adair Jnr. offered across five unreserved, single-owner sessions of around 70 rugs each.

The John Adair Jnr. Collection showcases an exceptional selection of antique Caucasian rugs, representing all the major weaving traditions of the region. Guided by a discerning eye, Adair assembled pieces which reflect his passion, deep knowledge and unwavering commitment to quality, sourcing works from around the world. His collecting ethos is marked by a keen appreciation for the interplay of colour and design, an instinct for the unusual and consistent attention to condition.

Visit the Soulis Auctions website for more information.

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