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ORITOP GmbH: Industriestraße B16, Halle C, A-2345 Brunn am Gebirge, Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 2236 315 316, Fax: +43 2236 315 316 14 e-mail: info@oritop.at, web: www.oritop.at CONTENTS ISSUE 166 WINTER 2010

40 Central Anatolian fragment,

of the so-called Karapınar type, Konya Ethnographic Museum

104-5 13th century Mongol dancer, Henan Museum, from the Met’s Khubilai Khan exhibition

102 A view of ‘Colors of the Oasis’ at the Textile Museum, Washington DC

FRONTLINES NEWS The Pope’s faithfully reproduced ‘Transylvanian’ rug; Symposium on Central Asian Textile Art in Leipzig; stolen Anatolian kilims; market news 19 WORKSHOP A report on Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tunic at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum 21 FROM THE ARCHIVE Extra value for ICOC XII participants – a unscheduled visit to the Hallwyl Museum to see late 19th century carpets and kilims in original period interiors 22 ICOC PROFILE Advance news of the June 2011 exhibitions at ICOC XII in Stockholm 29

FEATURES FACT OR FICTION

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‘Karapınar’ Rugs from Central Anatolia PENNY OAKLEY A large number of rugs on today’s market have been attributed to the region of Karapınar, a small town near Konya, and have acquired a certain mystique through the label, which may be based on a widespread misreading of a well-known primary source

TEXTILES FOR THE AFTERLIFE The Paracas Collection, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg

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ANNA JAVÉR Pre-colonial Andean cilvilisations traditionally buried their dead shrouded in textiles. ‘A Stolen World’ at The Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg tells the story of the 2,000-year-old textiles in the museum’s collection, which were originally looted from graves on the Paracas Peninsula and came to

Sweden in the 1930s, and sheds light on the illegal trade in looted cultural heritage objects

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

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Embroidery in Colonial Boston PAMELA PARMAL A series of exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston highlight the important role needlework played in Colonial women’s lives, not only as a practical skill, but as a form of artistic expression and as an economic resource

THE IDEAL INTERIOR

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CHRISTA C. MAYER THURMAN The John H. Bryan Collection of Arts and Crafts furnishings, which includes carpets and rugs from both sides of the Atlantic, can be viewed in a perfect setting – the period architecture of Crab Tree Farm, just north of the Illinois village of Lake Bluff, near Chicago

TEXTILE TREASURES

The Medieval Paraments of Halberstadt Cathedral BARBARA BREGLA The Cathedral of Halberstadt in Sachsen-Anhalt houses one of the most important ecclesiastical treasures in Germany. Its various paraments represent the most extensive collection of medieval liturgical textiles to be in continuous use over a long period, then preserved, in any German church

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CONTEXT EXHIBITIONS ‘As Found’ – carpet fragments at the Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan; ‘Muraqqa’. Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library’, Dublin; eye-dazzling Central Asian ikats in ‘Colors of the Oasis’ show at the Textile Museum, Washington DC; a selection of works of Islamic art from the al-Sabah Collection at the Kuwait National Museum, now showing in Milan; ‘The World of Khubilai Khan’ at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Kaitags in Pordenone; Turkomaniacs meet in Hamburg in October 2010; ARTS in the Bay Area including Turkmen and Chinese rugs 96 CALENDAR Auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences worldwide 116 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE Recent sales in Europe and the USA 121 BOOKS FiveCenturiesofIndonesianTextilesbyMary Kahlenberg & Ruth Barnes reviewed by Jonathan Hope; Elizabeth Cleland assesses two recent publications on European tapestries from the Toms and Acton Collections; IntheShapeofTradition.IndigenousArtoftheNorthernPhilippines reviewed by Thomas Murray 130 PARTING SHOTS From Turkey, San Francisco, Washington, Jerusalem, Berlin, Hamburg, Denver and London 142 FIRST VIEW An unpublished Cappadocian kilim to be shown in Duisburg in April 2011 144

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