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African Textiles 'Show & Tell' at Blythe House
The Textile Society Collector’s Group met Helen Wolfe and Chris Spring at Blythe House to view West African textiles from The British Museum collection.
Turkmen Rug Gift for Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven 'Ersari' Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Rachel Meek · 1 min
Native American Art Gift on show at de Young Museum
A recent gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection is an extraordinary anthology of Native American art assembled over three decades by the local banker and businessman Thom Weisel, a pioneer in the development of high tech…
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Carpet collecting at the V&A in the late 19th century
'Singular Perfection at South Kensington: Collecting ‘Persian Carpets’ for the V&A, 1873-1893' was the topic of a seminar presented at the Wallace Collection, London by Moya Carey, IHF Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on 31 March 2014.
Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West
A concise exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 11 March – 29 June displays three mid 17th century rugs and three Dutch paintings of the same age that depict the same type of carpets.
