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Hanging by a thread Nicoletta Fazio A current exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar uses textiles to tell the story of Iran during the transformative reign of Shah Abbas

Back to Baluch roots Marku s Voi gt A new book on Baluch flatweaves casts light on a neglected area of collection and study

Curtain up Ben Evan s October saw the much-anticipated opening of the new museum in Brescia devoted to the Zaleski collection. The institution has inspirational aims

Textile portraits: from Kashmir to the Qajar court Cosima Stewart An international round table coincided with an exhibition of Qajar paintings at the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi

Within the gift of the Shah Irina Koshoridze Two Persian robes in the Georgian National Museum belonged to one of ‘the most heroic and tragic figures in Georgian history’

Here be dragons I sabel Pifen Chueh and Sarah Spotowski A foretaste of an important new exhibition opening at the University of Alberta

Reviews Book reviews Pull of the Thread: Textile Travel s of a Generation by Sheila Fruman, reviewed by Hadi Maktabi; Art Underfoot: The Nazmiyal Collection by Jason Nazmiyal, Elisabeth Parker and Markus Voigt, reviewed by Judith Glass

Exhibition reviews ‘Burma to Myanmar’, British Museum, London, reviewed by Jonathan Hope; ‘Raphael: Gold and Silk’, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, reviewed by Christian Erber; ‘The Resistance of Pen and Paper’, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Marketplace Exhibitions ‘Paracas: An Exhibit of Textiles and Ceramics’ at David Bernstein Fine Art, New York

Auction reports Stephanie Douglas on tapestries, carpets and textiles from the Galerie Chevalier collection at Giquel lo, Pa r i s; 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 International auction results of note

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