HALI NEWSLETTER No. 400

[View this email in your browser]( Bonhams Skinner will hold their 'Art Underfoot' online auction until 29 March 2023. There will be a wide array of antique rugs, ranging from beautiful Serapi carpets to finely woven tribal bags. Many excellent Caucasian rugs are featured as well as Persian and Anatolian pieces. There will also be bold and unusual Kuba rugs, refined Marasali prayer rugs, as well as [lot 148]( a delightfully playful Bakhshaish garden carpet, est. $5–7,000 (shown above). Finally, there will be several fine and early textiles on offer. Collectors, dealers, aficionados and anyone else interested in rugs and textile art will find plenty of rare and exciting material in this auction. Previews will be held at the Bonhams Skinner gallery in Marlborough, MA Gallery from 27–29 March. For more information, email rugs@bonhamsskinner.com or call +1 508 970 3238. [Bid and f]( out more.]( [News] It is your last chance to see 'Textiles and the Environment' at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. The exhibition is showing until 29 March 2023 and offers the opportunity to see the first phase of the museum's transition into a more interactive space for visitors, allowing them to be 'active participants in dynamic cultural experiences inspired by collection objects'. This exhibition explores the ways in which a group of textiles from around the globe are connected to nature, focussing on 'the life cycle of a textile in relation to sustainability, and daily life'. Shown above is a Noragi (work coat), Japan, 1930–1950. Gift of Margaret Ballantyne. [Find out more.]( Capsule will hold its 'Carpets from the Jim Dixon Collection' online auction, a sale of rugs and textiles from the important collector’s archives with select additions, on 30 March 2023 at 11am EST (4pm BST). Pre-bidding is available now and live bidding begins on 30 March at 11am EST. The sale can be previewed from 11am–3pm on 28 and 29 March, and by appointment, at Capsule’s Chelsea gallery on the New York High Line. Jim Dixon was an esteemed landscape architect and a longtime collector of important rugs and textiles. Self-taught and endlessly passionate about the textiles he collected, he developed a massive collection of intricately woven rugs, many created before 1860, and some dating as far back as 1804. His discerning eye for great artistry is widely recognised in the industry; Dixon has been called '[one of] the most accomplished fragment collectors ever.' The objects offered in the auction span centuries and continents, including Avar rugs from east Caucasus, Yürük and Bergama rugs from west Anatolia, and Ningxia rugs from west China. Shown above is an Avar rug, north Caucasus, late 19th century ([lot 17](. [Bid and find out more.]( [News] Time is running out to see 'Africa Fashion', showing at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until 16 April 2023. Celebrating the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the African continent itself, this show explores the richness and diversity of African histories and cultures via photographs, textiles (including adire and bogolanfini cloths), music and visual arts by fashion creatives from over twenty countries. [Find out more.]( We are in the process of revising our privacy policy. If you would like to unsubscribe click [here](. [Follow Us] [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Been forwarded this email and want to receive it regularly? Subscribe to this newsletter]( Copyright © 2023, Hali Publications Ltd., All rights reserved. [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](