HALI 226 celebrates the V&A East Storehouse, where the public can view artefacts from the museum’s collection by appointment. In Oxford, a Pitt Rivers Museum project similarly offers improved access to its textile collection, as well as enhanced conservation. An exhibition at MITA in Brescia aims to foster wider appreciation of Chinese carpets, while an Art Institute of Chicago show investigates how textiles sustain belief and help us cope with grief. Other exhibitions covered include Kashmir ‘moon shawls’ from the TAPI Collection displayed in Ahmedabad, a Sheila Hicks event in Paris, and a Yale University show where an unusual 14th-century ikat—the single loan exhibit—is the subject of intense study. Eight 19th-century paintings, sold in October for over £1 million, give detailed insight into Kashmiri shawl-making, while gaps in our knowledge of thigma, tie-dyed woollen cloths, are filled in by Tibetan temple paintings. Plus we look at Tajik bridal face coverings, the British dyestuff ‘Turkey red’, and a new book based on Michael Mandapati’s kilim collection, which supplies our cover image.