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Exhibitors with items of special interest to HALI readers in the wide-open spaces of this year's summer Olympia fair in London, until 16 June, include Galerie Arabesque (Ulrike Montigel), Esther Fitzgerald, Clive Loveless, Tribal Gathering (Bryan Reeves), Johanna Booth,…

Among the add-ons during the recent BARE antique carpet and textile art fair at the Old Mint in Berlin was an evocative special documentary photo exhibition, ‘Schicksalsnacht im Tresorraum der Alten Münze – Das Ende der bedeutenden Sammlung Bodes’ (Fateful Night in the Vault…
Daniel Shaffer · 5 min
This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
BARE - The Berlin Antique Rug Exhibition, the newest of the rug and textile world's marketing enterprises, was held within the grittily atmospheric surroundings of the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2, from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013. The event was organised by Tim…

In response to popular demand, 'Skill of the Hand, Delight of the Eye', the Sadberk Hanım Museum’s current exhibition in Istanbul of of Turkish embroidery has been extended until the end of June 2013.

A huge new world record price at auction for a Central Asian suzani of any description helped to brighten the day at Rippon Boswell's 25 May 2013 sale of collector carpets and textiles.