Hali 218 Winter 2023 2024

‘CulturalxCollabs. Weaving The Future’ sees antique and contemporary rug making unite. • A Kashmir shawl that once belonged to Queen Victoria perfectly unites the Victorian love of pattern and colour with the Kashmir master weavers’ eye for detail • A selection of books containing, or concerning, textiles, their use, circulation and creation • Cloth used in the bindings of Armenian and Ethiopian manuscripts from the 14th–20th centuries • Eight specialists discuss a ‘book’ that they consider to be exceptional • A sample book from 1787 contains precious barkcloth variations recording vanished cultures • On the fascinating, frustrating and fabulous 1905 book, T. H. Hendley’s Asian Carpets • An 18th-century volume of cloth samples tells of rivalry, espionage and fierce ambition • A foretaste of an important new exhibition opening at the University of Alberta