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The annual celebration of Asian art taking place in the British capital, 1-10 November, has much to offer in terms of textiles.

Galleria Battilossi have opened a new showroom in Turin with an inaugural 'Antique Textile Art I' exhibition of exceptional antique textiles from a prominent private collection.
Katie Welch · 2 min
Spanning the spaces of Friedman Benda and Albertz Benda in New York, 'Under the Night Sky' will run until 15 December 2018. The show explores the numerous ways in which the frontier of the night sky influences the human psyche and continues to hold artists in its grip.
Katie Welch · 2 min
Sotheby’s London sale on 6 November is led by a group of twenty-three carpets from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid. The consignment includes a handful of classical Ushak, Esfahan and Caucasian rugs and fragments, as well as some particularly good Chinese…

At Christie's in London on 25 October, the all-encompassing ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ sale includes more than eighty other rugs and carpets, from most time periods and weaving cultures.