106 ICOC XII Review Stockholm

80 Cultural Landscapes

88 The Nature of a Collector

CONTENTS ISSUE 169 AUTUMN 2011

FRONTLINES LETTERS Horse tack Pazyryk-style and a question of Ottoman embroidery

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NEWS Farewell to Ernst Grube; the Abegg Stiftung reopens; the San Francisco Tribal; news of the Volkmanntreffen; a crystal carpet; banners from the Jameel Prize winner 23 POSTCARD Philippa Scott visits the French tapestry town of Aubusson 26 PROFILE Bay Area collectors Michael Rothberg and Peter Poullada, in conversation with Tom Cole, discuss issues of ownership and stewardship of their rug collections 28 FORUM A response to Michael Franses’ ‘Ashtapada’ article by Steven Cohen 39 MASTERPIECE An outstanding Kuba noblewoman’s skirt by Vanessa Drake Moraga 40

FEATURES TALE FROMTHE HILLS

TOM COLE Bill Liske’s Himalayan expertise makes him one the most knowledgeable western mountain and trekking guides for the region. Here he talks to Tom Cole about Tibetan rug and textile collecting

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STILL GOTTHEIR MOJO

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The De Young Kilims Revisited ALAN MARCUSON Twenty-one years on from the landmark exhibition of The McCoy Jones Collection of Anatolian kilims in

San Francisco, HALI’s former Publisher/ Editor revisits four pieces from the fifty on show again, at last!

ANRU

Saddle Rugs from China and Beyond

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KOOS DE JONG An examination of saddle rugs that forms part of a larger study of the history and use of saddles and saddle rugs in China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu and Tibet

CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

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The Fibre Art and Basketry of the Great Lakes Region VANESSA DRAKE MORAGA An edited abridgement of a chapter from the catalogue for the Washington Textile Museum’s autumn exhibition ‘Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa’

THE NATURE OF A COLLECTOR

James D Burns BEN EVANS HALI’s editor reviews the US collector’s sumptuous new book focusing on his Persian rugs

FORTHE FEW

BECKY SCOTT An in-depth look at a Jacquard-woven lace panel made by the Nottingham firm of Dobsons & Browne to commemorate the Battle of Britain in 1940

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CONTEXT ICOC REVIEW A review of ICOC XII in June 2011, including the pre-conference tour to Copenhagen, the main event in Stockholm, and the post-conference tour to St Petersburg 106 EXHIBITIONS ‘Global Patterns: Dress and Textiles in Africa’ at the MFA, Boston; New Guinean bark cloth in ‘Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay’ at The Menil Collection in Houston; Auctionata’s new online auctions; ‘Patterns of Trade. Indian Textiles for Export 1400-1900’ at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore; Moshe Tabibnia’s ‘Intrecci Cinesi’ in Milan; ‘Turkophilia Revealed’ at Sotheby’s, Paris; Safavid carpets and miniatures from the Farjam Collection in Dubai 120 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide 134 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in Europe and the USA 139 BOOKS UndiscoveredMinimalism.GelimsfromNorthernIranreviewed by Isabella Studer-Geisser, Curator of the Museum St Gallen, Switzerland; Janet Rizvi takes an in-depth look at WovenMasterpiecesofSikhHeritageby Frank Ames 146 PARTING SHOTS From Sartirana, ICOC Stockholm, Copenhagen and St Petersburg 158 LAST PAGE An Inca or early Colonial period tunic from LACMA 160

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