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Tapestries and embroideries from the most prominent textile centres of Europe are surveyed in a new exhibition and publication by Gallery Moshe Tabibnia.

Music producer and Turkmen rug collector Kurt Munkacsi's collection comes under the hammer in Vienna this May.
Malin Lonnberg · 2 min
As part of London’s Islamic Art Week, Christie’s will hold an Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction on Tuesday 21 April in their King Street salerooms. Highlights include an early Mongol kilim, a Bukhara saf fragment and an Ottoman Cairene carpet.
Malin Lonnberg · 2 min
The Vok Collection: Selection 1 auction will take place on 11 April 2015 at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden.

Austria Auction Company will be holding an online sale of rugs and kilims on 18 April, a first for the auction house.

Skinner's Boston sale of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets on March 28th, assembled by Lawrence Kearney, features more than 300 lots of antique rugs, carpets, and textiles from most major areas of the 'Rug Belt'.