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Bucking the general market trend, the dedicated carpet sale of 154-lots offered at Sotheby’s New Bond Street’s on 7 November 2017 was one of the most exciting and successful rug auctions seen in London in recent years.

A quick look through many specialist rug auction catalogues creates an immediate impression of the sale: whether it is worth looking through in greater detail. One can quickly form an impression of what the expert is like and their interests, whether there is anything fresh…
Ben Evans · 1 min
Austrian Auctions offers rugs and textiles drawn from several international collections in its seventh sale on Saturday 22 April at 4 pm.
Ben Evans · 1 min
A group of nineteen phulkari from the Punjab, dated mostly to the first half of the 20th century, is a promised gift to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and forms the basis of this survey into the genre’s fascinating and complex history
Californian art dealer Thomas Murray launches a selling exhibition of the vast Hollander collection of textile from the Chinese minority tribes

The Tribal & Textile Show in San Francisco has long been a hub for non-western art. Ben Evans visits the show in its first year under new management, and reviews the best textile on offer