HALI NEWSLETTER No. 434

[View this email in your browser]( Ahon Auctions will hold an online auction of 'Antique Luxury Persian Rugs' on 22 October 2023. The sale boasts exquisite carpets hailing from various regions including Iran, Pakistan, China and Turkey. Among the Persian carpets are vintage hand-knotted palace-quality pieces, including stunning Serapi, Tabriz, Kashan, Heriz, Shirvan, Saruk, Serapi, and Bijar designs dating back to the 1920s which stand out for their unique designs and colour palettes and remarkable condition. The Turkish carpet selection comprises rare antique weavings, ranging from yastiks to Malatya rugs, seldom found on the market. [View the sale.]( [News] Textile Museum Associates of Southern California and the New England Rug Society present a webinar with Sheila Fruman on her newly published book Pull of the Thread: Textile Travels of a Generation. The webinar is free to join and will take place on 21 October 2023 at 10am PDT (6pm BST). For the new title, author and traveler Sheila Fruman has concentrated on nine intrepid travellers from the 1970s up to now, who, in their youth, combed the streets and bazaars of Central and South Asia finding, researching, collecting and selling antique woven ikat and embroidered Uzbek textiles and robes, Kashmir shawls, Anatolian kilims, Turkmen carpets and many other textile treasures. This generation of dealers and collectors all made important and even essential contributions to their fields, publishing books, staging exhibitions, and often gifting items to major institutions such as the V&A and The Met. The designs and motifs they popularised in the US and Europe can now be found in anything from haute couture to high-end interior design to mass-marketed bedding, tableware and clothing. These travellers have spent their lives seeking complex pieces of the past, and have intriguing stories to tell, and collections of some of the finest textiles of their kind in the world. Shown above is a detail of an ikat hanging, Uzbekistan, circa 1800–1850. The Textile Museum, 2015.11.47, Gift of Guido Goldman in honour of Bruce P. Baganz. [Register to join.]( The James Douglas Collection continues to be a treasure trove of carefully chosen Baluch and Persian tribal bags and rugs, which will be showcased by DeWitt Mallary at the ARTS show at the Motel Capri, San Francisco, taking place from 27–29 October 2023. In addition to outstanding examples of classic types, the collection includes many rare and unique pieces as well. Douglas had a deep fascination for practical woven items, including flatwoven objects of various shapes and sizes. He was also a connoisseur of wool as well as colour, as his collection demonstrates. DeWitt Mallary will showcase a variety of weavings, including Baluch, Qashqa’i, Afshar, Kurdish and Varamin. [View items from DeWitt Mallary and the James Douglas Collection.]( [News] The [Carpet Design Awards]( the international competition for outstanding carpet design, is open for everyone to enter! Presented in partnership with COVER and HALI magazines, the 2024 awards will be held in Hanover at DOMOTEX on 12 January. Awards can be won in eight categories: Best Studio Artist Design, Best Modern Design Superior, Best Modern Design Deluxe, Best Transitional Design, Best Flatweave Design, Best Collection, Best Interior and the Sustainability Award. The deadline to submit carpets for the 19th edition of the industry's most important international design award is 3 November 2023. Companies who are not actively participating as exhibitors at DOMOTEX are encouraged to submit their carpets for the award, but unlike DOMOTEX exhibitors, will be required to pay an entry fee. [Find out more.]( [Register for the awards.]( [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](