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Contents 8 In this issue Issue Spring Compass Editorial The editor compares attitudes towards—and approaches to showing—the arts of Iran Dialogue and Calendar New African art galleries at Yale University Art Gallery, HALI Fair Online, the relaunch of ReWoven, the opening of the Humboldt Forum, the V&A collections online and Calendar Thread of time Ben Evans Monetary value and foreign influence expressed in implicit and explicit ways Travellers’ tales Cosima Stewart Georgia and the textile traditions that exemplify the country’s unique culture and spirit P r o fi l e Rachel Meek Lulu Lytle of Soane Britain on design, integrity and her passion for antique textiles Anatomy of an object Gebhart Blazek The secrets contained within carpets from the high plateaus of Algeria offer surprising information about the rugs’ construction, function and cross-cultural influences Common thread From treasured heirlooms to cloths marking an important rite of passage or expressing status, textiles have a role to play in many aspects of family life across the world Features The bigger picture Thomas Wild There are enough surviving early Tibetan court carpets to form a significant group. How might they change our understanding of the region’s weaving traditions? Speak softly Chris Hall Until comparatively modern times, Chinese cushion covers and pillow ends would not only provide comfort but could also carry cryptic messages of good fortune Shining example Penny Oakley A lustrous coat appears to invite assumptions about its cultural associations A steppe back in time Aaron Nejad A notable collection of kilims in the Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art Museum links together an episode of textile history that has rarely been examined in detail
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Contents 9 Bringing it all back home Markus Voigt A winding path through Helmut Eberhart’s lifelong journey across the world and an examination of Turkish domestic embroidery from his collection Marvels of five millennia Sarah Piram ‘Epic Iran’, set to open soon at the V&A, is London’s first large-scale exhibition of the country’s culture for ninety years An Indian enigma Shilpa Shah Discovering a hitherto unknown subgenre of northern Indian textiles Academics in the Greek archipelago Francesca Leoni A discovery in the Ashmolean Museum’s archives threw fresh light on an important area of British textile collecting—the acquisition of Greek island embroideries Reviews Exhibition review ‘Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso’ at Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Conference review ‘Interdisciplinary Workshop in Textile Studies: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Productions’ at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reviewed by Nikolaos Vryzidis Book reviews Velvets of the Fifteenth Century by Michael Peter (ed.), reviewed by Michael Buddeberg, and Preserving the Past: A Selection from the Sadberk Hanim Museum by Hülya Bilgi, G. Senem Özden Gerçeker and Ayşen Anadol (ed.), reviewed by Penny Oakley Marketplace Auction report Markus Voigt What can be deduced from back-to-back sales of Islamic carpets (and carpet fragments) in London this spring? Auction report Gunnar Nilsson When Swedish textiles from the collection of Peter Willborg were auctioned in Uppsala, bed covers were among the pick of the items Fairs Reviews of Asia Week New York and San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show, both online Auction Price Guide Winter auction results from Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden, Grogan & Company in Boston and other international auction houses Last page The ‘International Exhibition of Persian Art’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1931

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Contents 8

In this issue Issue Spring

Compass Editorial The editor compares attitudes towards—and approaches to showing—the arts of Iran

Dialogue and Calendar New African art galleries at Yale University Art Gallery, HALI Fair Online, the relaunch of ReWoven, the opening of the Humboldt Forum, the V&A collections online and Calendar

Thread of time Ben Evans Monetary value and foreign influence expressed in implicit and explicit ways

Travellers’ tales Cosima Stewart Georgia and the textile traditions that exemplify the country’s unique culture and spirit

P r o fi l e Rachel Meek Lulu Lytle of Soane Britain on design, integrity and her passion for antique textiles

Anatomy of an object Gebhart Blazek The secrets contained within carpets from the high plateaus of Algeria offer surprising information about the rugs’ construction, function and cross-cultural influences

Common thread From treasured heirlooms to cloths marking an important rite of passage or expressing status, textiles have a role to play in many aspects of family life across the world

Features The bigger picture Thomas Wild There are enough surviving early Tibetan court carpets to form a significant group. How might they change our understanding of the region’s weaving traditions?

Speak softly Chris Hall Until comparatively modern times, Chinese cushion covers and pillow ends would not only provide comfort but could also carry cryptic messages of good fortune

Shining example Penny Oakley A lustrous coat appears to invite assumptions about its cultural associations

A steppe back in time Aaron Nejad A notable collection of kilims in the Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art Museum links together an episode of textile history that has rarely been examined in detail

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