HALI
CONTENTS
Issue 62 Volume 14, Number 2 April 1992
Publisher & Editor
Alan Mareuson
Associate Publisher Sebastian Chandchi
Deputy Editor Daniel ShalTer
Senior Editors Maria Schlatter. Jill Tilden
Assistant Editor
Jennifer (.ill
Editorial Co-ordinator
Judy I lirsh
Chief Contributing Editor lan Bennett
Contributing Editors Alberto Boralevi, Steven Cohen Rosemary Crill, Michael Eranses
Donald King.. DeWitt Mallary
John Mills, Thomas Murray Yanni Petsopoulos, Robert Pinner
Jam es W . Reid. Philippa Scott Parviz Tanavoli, Neil \\ interbottom
Picture Librarian
John Stroud
Art Director
I,ix Dixon
Art Editor Amanda Bakhtiar
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\ndrevv I lurlock
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Nicholas Eripp
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Julie \\ icks
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Ben Loveless
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Lara Zunino
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Barbara Schneider
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Wendy Kasabian
Distribution Manager
Marc Thomas
Systems Manager
\ eronica Purdev
ReceptionistZol >i(la Khan
The Cerman language supplement is published as an integral part o f IIAI A.
Editor Maria Schlatter
Translators Dorrit Dunn. Susanne Mattern
59 EDITORIAL
The 11A1,1 Readership Surrey results and competition winners. 61 LETTERS
R eaders' comments on lu n ik an d Kurdish rugs, Turkoman okbashes an d igsalvks, rad io carbon dating, tatting an d AC OR. 65 FRAGMENTS
A p la in m an ’s guide to the Tehran carpet conference: som e New 1ea r gifts celebrated - a Moroccan carpet fo r the I A- I a m l I zbek ikats J o r The Textile Museum: the J a k i fla r Museums remain c losed to the public. 71 FORUM
The dossier on the S a fa r id silk kilim fr a g ments' grows as Charles Grant Ellis replies to lan Bennett s discussion: an Indonesian textile symposium at the De Young Museum. 74 CONNOISSEUR S CHOICE
Textile conservator Jan e Merritt notes that the sophisticated workmanship o f an 18th century p a in ted cotton su’a senakut (soldier's jacket) in the Royal Ontario Museum is Indian, from the Corom andel ('oast, but its demonic design represents a Then courtly commission. 76 VRINDAVANI VASTRA
F igured S ilk s from Assam Rosemary Crill Scenes from the /ires o f the incarnations o f I ishnu are central to the iconography o f a group o f extraordinary Assamese silk lam pas weares. The au thor traces the group b a ck to its p r o b a b le prototype, a silk known as the Cloth o f B rindaban, m ade as a princely commission under the superrision o f the 16th century religious reform er Sankaradeva. 84 ZEIKIIUR
Raoul Tsehebull F lam boyant, sophisticated and colourful, the a ll-w ool rugs o f this w earing area in the northeastern Transcaucasus stand out amongst 19th century production. The author, a well-known collector and dealer, looks a t their history and structural characteristics, and identifies the f ir e main groups o f prototypical fie ld designs. 96 THE BOSTON RUG PARTY
Daniel Shaffer ITALI's deputy editor reports on the rery successful an d highly en joyable first American Conference on Oriental Rugs (ACOR), held in wiritery Boston in early 1992.
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