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There are just over two weeks left to visit the textile exhibition Command Performance: Kuba Cloths from Central Africa at The Honolulu Museum of Art, till 21 July 2013.

Don't miss your chance to see From the Exotic to the Mystical: Woven Treasures from the Permanent Collection, at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, on show till 4 August 2013.
Lucy Upward · 1 min
The First International Symposium at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles - Weaving Royal Traditions Through Time: Textiles and Dress at the Thai Court and Beyond will take place 5-9 November 2013.
Lucy Upward · 2 min
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Cloisters in New York and 75 years of the Unicorn Tapestries being a focal point of that collection, the Cloisters is currently holding an exhibition 'Search for the Unicorn, An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters' 75th Anniversary'

Sotheby’s New York sale of Important 20th Century Design totaled a strong $4,738,940, almost reaching its pre-sale high estimate of $5 million.

As the public face of the Royal Tropical Institute, the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is one of Europe's leading ethnographic museums and is set to close...