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LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.

Christie’s spring Oriental Rugs & Carpets auction on 19 April 2016 in London is headlined by an amazing trio of 17th-century Kerman ‘Vase-technique’ carpets that were once the property of Baroness Alice de Rothschild, but there is far more to the King Street sale.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min'Nomad Rug Art in Small Sizes' opens at Schloss Laxenburg on 9 April 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
‘Suolo sacro. Tappeti in pittura (XV – XIX secolo)’ is a spring exhibition to be held at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia’s Via Brera premises in Milan from 6 April–2 July 2016. The exhibition will feature 25 rare antique (15th-19th century) oriental carpets from Tabibnia’s…

On 11 April 2016 at Drouot in Paris, Gros & Delettrez will offer a large and varied selection of 239 lots of Kashmir shawls and other Indian, Persian, Turkish, North African and European textiles from The Nemati Collection, New York. Among the 239 lots featured will be a…