TOUR - Great British Collections 30 June - 7 July 2019 - HALI London
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TOUR
Great British Collections
30 June - 7 July 2019 LONDON
2019
On the occasion of HALI magazine reaching two important
milestones in summer 2019, we are delighted to offer a small
group unique access to some of the best antique carpets and
textiles on our home turf. The programme provides unprece-
dented entry to institutions and private collections outside of the
capital. It is conceived as a way to lengthen and enrich the HALI
LONDON London experience, but can also stand alone as a 7-day tour.
Historic textile mills and grand buildings are testament to
2019 Manchester’s might during in the industrial revolution, and one
of the most important collections of antique textiles in Britain
can be found at The Whitworth Museum. View Greek Island
Welcome embroideries and Coptic textiles, collected by a tight-knit
network of Victorian and Edwardian archaeologists and
adventurers, before visiting three more university museums
later in the week. Tour the textile highlights on display and in the
stores at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and at Oxford’s
Taking place immediately after HALI
Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums. Kelmscott Manor, the Cotswolds
London—a week-long celebration of 40
Three spectacular houses contain collections, assembled in
years and 200 issues of the magazine—
different eras, that represent the diverse artistic interests of their
this HALI Tour showcases antique carpets creators and inhabitants. Tapestries and embroideries in the ‘Amazing tour. Beyond my wildest expectations.
and textiles in important UK collections Elizabethan Hardwick Hall are testament to Bess of Hardwick’s We were given access to unbelievable private
situated outside the British capital. love of textiles and her own needlework talents; English carpets collections and collectors. I can’t wait to go again!’
dated 1584, made after Turkish Star-Ushaks, remain in Boughton
Ben Evans House on one of the Buccleuch estates and display the family HALI Tour participant, USA
Editor, Hali Publications Limited
coat of arms; William Morris described his Cotswold retreat of
Kelmscott Manor as the ‘loveliest haunt of ancient peace’ when ‘A faultless tour that was as enjoyable as it was
he first visited in 1871. It now houses original textiles, paintings,
carpets, ceramics and metalwork by the English Arts & Crafts
informative... Highly recommended.’
artist, designer and champion of Persian carpets. HALI Tour participant, Lebanon
TOUR LEADER
THE ROUTE Jacqueline (Jackie) Coulter
Manchester to London
Since 2014, Jackie has been consultant in
carpets to Sotheby’s, recently overseeing the
sales of the Christopher Alexander and Howard
Hodgkin collections. She also worked in its
London auction house as a specialist in carpets,
and later Islamic textiles, for 29 years prior to
that, on a diverse range of projects including
Sotheby’s first foray into online auctions.
She has a BFA in Fine Art from The Ruskin,
University of Oxford, and is a contributor to the
forthcoming volume on textiles, carpets and
costumes from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection
of Islamic Art. Her work has often meant
‘going behind the ropes’ in many of Britain’s
great houses, a unique and very special way of
experiencing collections in their settings, and
one she is greatly looking forward to sharing
with participants on this tour.
Coat panel, 16th-century Iran, The Whitworth Museum Greek Island embroidery, The Whitworth Museum Stores Hardwick Hall
Detailed DAY 1 Sunday 30 June DAY 2 Monday 1 July DAY 3 Tuesday 2 July
Itinerary MANCHESTER
Accommodation: The Principal, Manchester
MANCHESTER
Accommodation: The Principal, Manchester
DERBYSHIRE
Accommodation: Stapleford Park, Nottinghamshire
Four decades of HALI articles and the
experience gathered through their Independent arrival in Manchester. The HALI Tour The Whitworth Museum Travel by coach (2 hours)
activities begin the morning of the following day, but A full day at the University of Manchester’s museum;
preparation inform HALI Tours. We accommodation is included for the Sunday night. Founded in 1889, the red brick Victorian building was Hardwick Hall
transformed by a £15 million development in 2015. A grand hall created by Bess of Hardwick, the
are proud to offer this tour of England on The hotel is centrally located opposite Manchester Countess of Shrewsbury—one of Elizabethan
the occasion of the company’s 40th year. Oxford Road train station and a 15-20 minute walk Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the England’s most powerful women and a great lover
(or short taxi ride away) from Manchester Picadilly Islamic World of textiles. There are 16th-century tapestries and
train station which has direct trains from London. An exhibition of textiles in the Whitworth collection, embroideries commissioned or bought by Bess in
from Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen–the four corners almost every room, not least the large-scale set of
There are several galleries in the neighbourhood such of the Ka’bah–including burnished indigo cloth, silk four embroideries known as ‘the noble women’, as
as Manchester Art Gallery, as well as concert venues embroidered robes, tent hangings and Dervish hats well as some interesting rugs and carpets.
including Palace Theatre and Bridgewater Hall. stitched with script.
The National Trust property will be closed to the public
Group lunch on site from the Whitworth Café. while HALI guests take a behind-the-scenes tour with
Assistant House and Collection Manager, including an
The Whitworth Stores in-depth talk as well as access to areas not normally
The Textiles Collections Care Manager and open to groups.
Conservator introduces the activities of, and
correspondence between, a group of adventurous Travel by coach (1.30 hours)
19th-century textile collectors who moved in the
same circles as her own Grandfather, as well as Group dining at Stapleford Park.
presenting important Greek island embroideries and
other textiles, not on public display, from the museum
stores.
English carpet circa 1584 with ‘Star Ushak’ design, Boughton House Kettle’s Yard House, Cambridge The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Naga textile, India, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
DAY 4 Wednesday 3 July DAY 5 Thursday 4 July DAY 6 Friday 5 July DAY 7 Saturday 6 July
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CAMBRIDGE OXFORD OXFORD
Accommodation: Hotel du Vin, Cambridge Accommodation: Hotel du Vin, Cambridge Accommodation: Macdonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford Accommodation: Macdonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford
Travel by coach (1 hour) Kettle’s Yard House Travel by coach (2 hours) Pitt Rivers Museum
An ambient house museum, lived in by Jim and The atmospheric home to Oxford University’s
Boughton House Helen Ede between 1958 and 1973, when they kept Ashmolean Museum anthropology and world archaeology collections,
A spectacular English expression of a typically French ‘open house’ every afternoon of term, personally Textile highlights on show at the University of Oxford’s founded when General Pitt Rivers donated his
court style, this stately home–originally built to museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683, collection to the University in 1884. Highlights include
guiding visitors around their home. With Jim having
impress the King William and Queen Mary and still include Gujarati textile fragments imported into early intricate Hawaiian feather cloaks and Naga textiles.
been the director of London’s Tate Gallery in the
privately owned by the Duke of Buccleuch–has some Islamic Egypt from the Newberry Collection–which Visit to the stores with the Head of Collections.
1920s and ‘30s, the property–which he donated to
of the best-preserved state rooms in the country. also contains the largest collection of medieval Islamic
the University of Cambridge in 1966–is filled with
The Buccleuch Collection treasures include furniture, embroideries in any public museum. Kelmscott Manor
paintings and tapestries acquired by succeeding paintings and sculpture by eminent 20th-century The 16th-century Cotswold retreat of William Morris,
generations of the Montagu Douglas Scott family British artists, as well as compositions of natural Elements from the May Beattie carpet archive and the one of the most influential English designers and
since the 16th century. objects and various rugs and textiles. Simon Crosby Collection of Turkmen carpets will be thinkers of the 19th century.
presented by the Curator of Islamic Art in the stores.
Surrounded by 18th-century landscaped gardens, Fitzwilliam Museum Group dinner in a country pub.
woodland and a country park, the house is also home Islamic and Asian art and antiquities in the University Optional visit to a local rug gallery with antique and
to eighteen early pile carpets of note, including a of Cambridge’s museum galleries and a visit to the contemporary rugs and some textiles.
ONWARDS TRAVEL
‘Sanguszko’, one of the most magnificent Safavid Reserve, with the Honorary Keeper of Textiles, to
rugs in Britain, and four 16th-century pieces, based on get a close up viewing of Greek Island and Ottoman Free evening in Oxford.
A coach back to London will be arranged for late
Anatolian Star Ushak and Lotto arabesque models. embroideries donated by Baron George de Menasce. morning the following day - Sunday 7 July 2019.
The journey time is approximately 2 hours.
Buffet lunch mid-tour on the estate. Free evening in Cambridge.
Please feel free to make alternative travel
Travel by coach (1 hour) arrangements from Oxford. Direct trains run
to London’s Paddington and Marylebone
Free evening in Cambridge.
stations (1.30 hours), Birmingham (1.15 hours)
and Manchester (3 hours).
Highlights
Embroidery and needlework from
Byzantium to Derbyshire
Greek Island, Ottoman and Egyptian embroidery
collections of exceptional quality are housed in
the stores of three university-affiliated museums in
Manchester, Oxford and Cambridge, while excellent
English embroidery from the Elizabethan period is
best viewed at the imposing Hardwick Hall.
English carpets and the ‘Buccleuch
Sanguzsko’ at Boughton House
The carpet collection at Boughton House is a minor
part of the art treasures of this private estate, but it
acts as a bridge between West and East. The earliest
of the 16th- and 17th-century Persian, Indian and
Turkish carpets owned by the Duke of Buccleuch are
contemporary with four spectacular hand knotted
English star Ushak design carpets dating from circa
1584, they carry the Duke’s coats of arms.
Unique material in English archives
relating to historic carpets and textiles
HALI has been at the forefront of carpet scholarship
for 40 years but the interest in rugs among English
collectors and travelling academics has a longer
history. Archives reveal characters such as May
Beattie, Alan John Bayard Wace, Percy Newberry,
William Morris and, more recently, Simon Crosby
whose activity brought rugs and textiles wider
acclaim and ultimately placed them in museums.
The ‘Buccleuch Sanguzsko carpet, Boughton House
Hotels DAYS 1-2 30 June - 1 July DAY 3 2 July DAYS 4-5 3 -4 July DAYS 6-7 5-6 July
All hotels have been carefully
THE PRINCIPAL STAPLEFORD PARK HOTEL DU VIN MACDONALD
handpicked to provide the highest MANCHESTER NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CAMBRIDGE RANDOLPH HOTEL
possible levels of comfort and service OXFORD
Accommodation: HHHHH Accommodation: HHHH Accommodation: HHHH Accommodation: HHHHH
Duration of stay: 2 nights Duration of stay: 1 night Duration of stay: 2 nights Duration of stay: 2 nights
Built as The Refuge Assurance Company Stapleford Park Country House Hotel & Surrounded by winding cobbled streets, Centrally located, directly opposite the
headquarters in 1895, a multi-million Estate sits in the heart of England near elegant architecture, spires and quads, Ashmolean Museum, this landmark
pound restoration converted the the village of Melton Mowbray, in the and situated close to the Fitwilliam building recently underwent a multi-
landmark red brick building (complete Midlands. The Grade I listed mansion Museum, this hotel is housed in a million pound restoration bringing the
with clock tower and cavernous tiled bears the imprint of multiple architectural characterful building once University 150-year old property up to modern
interiors) into a plush, contemporary styles, from Tudor to Victorian; its owned. The elegant, informal in-house five-star standards. The hotel’s bar was
hotel with an atmospheric restaurant, surroundings are by the 18th-century bistro is a popular place for classic favoured by Colin Dexter’s world-
The Refuge by Volta, and comfortable English landscape architect, Capability French and British-inspired dining. famous detective, Inspector Morse.
Winter Garden bar. Brown. Facilities include an indoor
swimming pool. www.hotelduvin.com/locations/ www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/our-
www.phcompany.com/principal/ cambridge/ hotels/macdonald-randolph-hotel/
manchester-hotel/ www.staplefordpark.com
Practicalities Tour details Pricing Booking
This includes: Price per person: £3,200 (deposit £320) For further information and bookings,
❖ travel by private, air-conditioned coach HALI Subscribers: £2,950 please contact Rachel Meek:
between Manchester and London Additional single supplement: £700 halitours@hali.com
❖ hotel accommodation as described (The subscriber discount offer does not affect the +44 (0)20 3370 7572
❖ full-time services of the Tour Leader and single supplement amount.)
HALI editorial staff It may be necessary to amend the programme
Limited spaces available–maximum 22 slightly according to local conditions
❖ all talks and tours with museum staff guests.
and specialist curators
❖ all admissions
PLEASE NOTE:
❖ 7 breakfasts in hotels, 2 lunches and
HALI subscriber discount Travel to Manchester to join the tour
3 dinners in selected cafes and is not included, but accommodation at
restaurants with soft drinks, and wine Current HALI subscribers The Pricipal Manchester is included
or beer with the evening group meals are entitled to a £250 for the night of the 31 June 2019. HALI
Where meals are not included, a discount on bookings Tour activities start on the morning
choice of suitable eateries are always made before 30 April 2019. of 1 July 2019. Manchester is serviced
nearby for independant dining. by two mainline train stations and an
The deposit must be paid international airport.
On the cover: Strapwork carpet, Esfahan, 17th century, Buccleuch Collection at the time of booking in We can assist in booking additional
at Boughton House
order to take advantage of nights’ accommodation at The Principal
this special offer. Manchester should you need it prior to
the start of the tour.
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